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Michael Maltzan Architecture projected the Pitman Dowell Residence for two artists located 24 Km north of Los Angeles at the edge of Angeles forest. Concept for this house was fulfill the contemporary needs of the artists for a new relationship between building and landscape that is more urban and contained.

Inspired by geometric arrangements of interlocking polygons, the new residence takes the form of a heptagonal figure whose purity is confounded by a series of intersecting diagonal slices though space. Bounded by an introverted exterior, living spaces unfold in a moiré of shifting perspectival frames from within and throughout the house. An irregularly shaped void caught within these intersections creates an outdoor room at the center whose edges blur into the adjoining living spaces. In this way, movement and visual relationships expand and contract to respond to centrifugal nature of the site and context.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 13th, 2010 at 10:23 am and is filed under Residence House Design. Tags: heptagonal house, heptagonal interior, interior intersections, michael maltzan, michael maltzan architecture, Pitman Dowell Residence, Pittman Dowell Residence, polygon house, residence, urban site
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