One Window House by Touraine Richmond Architects
October 25th, 2009 Filed Under: Architecture
The house a window was designed by architects Olivier Touraine and Deborah Richmond, Richmond, Touraine architects is the residential tower in Venice, California, USA. The house rises from a window three stories high, covered with large expanses of clear glass, polycarbonate and corrugated metal panels moving between horizontal and vertical planes.
To cope with the restrictions that require sloping roofs of the buildings on two floors, the top of the east facade of the house has a steep bank, which follows the path of coated polycarbonate staircase inside. All these elements give the facade of his memorable, varied composition of alternating horizontal and vertical, and diagonal levels, and solid translucents, and Transparent.
