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The
following text and images are courtesy Oyler
Wu Collaborative. Click on images for larger views.
Located approximately 10 miles east of downtown Los Angeles,
this backyard intervention sits within a community of traditional
suburban homes. Some of our initial interests grew out of
looking to the existing home
for points of interest, not as a vernacular, but rather as
a way of rethinking things such as conventional wood-frame
construction, pitched roofs, drainage systems, and shading
devices.
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Built by our office over the
course of a couple of months, the project is the result of
a careful negotiation between a range of different programmatic,
environmental, and tectonic conditions. One major objective
of the project was to raise a portion of the roof significantly
for an outdoor dining area, while still providing the necessary
drainage and shade. |
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As we increased the height of
that section of the canopy, there were several resulting conditions
that led to the more prominent design solutions. The bright
morning sun, combined with an unusual structural condition,
led us to provide a wall of sculpted "fins" along the east
side of the scheme. The southern side of the scheme, with
its roof line ranging from 12 to 13 feet high, needed to fold
downward in order to provide additional shade against the
southern sun. |
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The side adjacent
to the house stopped just short of touching the existing
soffit in order to allow for proper drainage off of the roof,
and, as a result, a shading device was added. The wedge of
space left between the upper and the lower canopy allowed
the evening sun to slip between the two, which led to the
soaring cantilever that provides
the necessary shade from the evening sun. |
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on images below for larger views.
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