September issue of Arroyo Monthly: Cover by Ewasko
Updating a Treasure: Barton Phelps designs a seamless office addition to an award-winning Buff & Hensman home in the San Gabriel foothills.
By Katie Klapper, September 2009
Photos by: Tommy Ewasko
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An abridged version of my architectural portfolio showcasing a residential design project, professional projects and a grad school project. Also included are samples of my architectural photography.
This is the graphic portion of an illustrated lecture on the the design process we use at Frishbrook Design Studio. It uses the private residential project Lazy Valley to demonstrate the process.
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This mock project that focuses on green building design. This project features floorplans, elevations and 3D renderings of condominium micro-units, a rooftop restaurant bar and grille, coffee shop and outdoor gym. Focusing on green design strategies, the building leverages passive air circulation, daylighting, green roofs, bay filter system and sustainable materials.
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Students today consume, create and make sense of content via a range of mobile digital technologies. This workshop will discuss feedback from a classroom trial of iPads as well as exploring the innovative features the iPad and various Apps can play in enhancing and engaging students in learning.
Session presented at ASLA 2011 conference.
Related website : http://learningwithipads.blogspot.com/
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2. EARTHLY
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BARTON PHELPS DESIGNS A SEAMLESS OFFICE ADDITION TO AN AWARD-WINNING
BUFF & HENSMAN HOME IN THE SAN GABRIEL FOOTHILLS.
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3. PRESERVATIONISTS EVERYWHERE BREATHE A SIGH OF RELIEF WHEN HOME-
OWNERS EMBRACE THEIR ARCHITECTURAL TREASURES, OPTING TO ADAPT
THEM TO CURRENT NEEDS RATHER THAN TEAR THEM DOWN AND START OVER,
AN APPROACH SO POPULAR IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. IT’S A SUSTAINABLE
CHOICE AND THE ONE MADE BY OWNERS OF A CONTEMPORARY GEM IN THE
SAN GABRIEL FOOTHILLS, WHICH WON AN AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS
AWARD IN 1990. THE COUPLE APPROACHED LOS ANGELES ARCHITECT BARTON
PHELPS WITH THEIR DESIRE TO ADD AN OFFICE SUITE TO THEIR 5,000-SQUARE-
FOOT HOME. THE ELEGANT TWO-STORY RESIDENCE, DESIGNED BY THE INFLU-
ENTIAL FIRM OF BUFF & HENSMAN IN 1984, WAS CREATED FOR CLIENTS
INSPIRED BY LE CORBUSIER BUILDINGS THEY HAD SEEN IN PARIS.
Opposite page: A Japanese-style door opens
onto an office addition and light-filled balcony.
Near right: A striking marble table anchors the
wife’s office space.
Far right: Light spilling onto an interior garden
travels through windows in the floor.
Indeed, the dynamic arrangement of the structure’s white rectangular volumes does bring to mind the work of the
French modernist master. Organized by strong vertical and horizontal axes, the U-shaped structure wraps around an
interior courtyard featuring Japanese rock gardens and profuse plantings. An elevated walkway continues straight
through the house, extending into the backyard and over the swimming pool until it ends at a sculpture wall at the rear
of the property.
Inside is a soaring two-story living room shaped by clean white walls, warm oak flooring and rift-sawn oak cabi-
netry. Vast quantities of glass and numerous skylights admit plentiful natural light. While grand in scale, the effect, notes
the current owner, is “simple, serene, with a Japanese sensibility.”
After living in the home for a few years, the owners decided to add an extensive office suite. Maintaining the home’s
serenity and respecting its original architecture were high priorities, so they brought in a firm known for sensitive
updates of important buildings — Barton Phelps & Associates. In addition to a nationwide portfolio of private homes,
Phelps is responsible for the renovation of UCLA’s historic Royce Hall, as well as the expansions of Frank Gehry’s
Cabrillo Marine Aquarium and Richard Neutra’s University Elementary School at UCLA.
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The assignment called for his-and-hers offices,
plus a combined office/kitchenette for an assistant, a
bath and substantial additional storage and book-
shelves. Whereas the original plan provided for a sec-
ond-floor office/library in an open loft above the
living room, the owners wanted rooms that could be
closed off from the rest of the house — quiet and pri-
vate, yet easily accessible. As it became clear that the
logical place for the addition was above the garage
and adjacent rooms, another objective emerged —
maintaining the natural lighting of the first floor.
Fortunately, as Phelps notes, “The manipulation
of daylight was pivotal to my training with the mas-
ter, [the prominent late architect] Charles Moore.”
To transmit light previously admitted through sky-
lights, Phelps located a small Japanese garden at the
center of the new wing. With its walls opened on
three sides, the garden bounces light from a large
skylight through windows in its floor to the down-
stairs bath and hallway. Featuring a bronze Han fig-
ure, plantings and river rocks, the garden brings a
serene sensibility to the new wing. As the wife and
owner acknowledges, “Instead of an insurmountable
problem, Phelps seized this challenge as an opportu-
nity to innovate.”
The garden is flanked by two commodious
offices connected by the assistant’s office/kitchenette.
While the wife’s office is anchored by a marble con-
ference table and a fireplace, the husband’s space has
a meeting table by a window and a comfortable sofa
for casual confabs. Both offices feature skylights and
varied ceiling levels and are completely wired for up-
to-date computer networking. To create a seamless
join to the rest of the house, Phelps employed many
of the same materials seen elsewhere in the home.
The extensive built-in shelving, cabinetry and desks
are of rift-sawn oak. The flooring matches the origi-
nal, the windows are framed like the originals and
hardware is repeated. “Most people don’t know this
is an addition,” the owner says.
Because Phelps is interested in how a building
interacts with its surroundings, he used the addition
as an opportunity to improve the home’s relation-
ship to the outdoors. Where the original plan heavily Large windows in one of the new
favored views to the pool and rear gardens, Phelps offices fill the room with natural light.
accentuated views to the front courtyard. The wife’s
office surrenders most of one wall to floor-to-ceiling windows that open onto pieces, Phelps created a dramatic recessed niche above the fireplace, lit by a
courtyard views and an outdoor balcony that leads to a stunning Zen rock skylight, and cantilevered a pair of wooden shelves to support the sculptures.
garden on the roof of the garage. The office addition not only adds substantial space, it completes the orig-
To complement the owners’ Asian art collection and echo a living-room inal Buff & Hensman composition. Without expanding the home’s footprint,
table fashioned from a Japanese door, Phelps integrated a replica at the entry the new wing strengthens the sense of enclosure around the entry courtyard
of the new wing, copying the hardware from a Tonsu chest and hiding its and provides comfortable, yet separate, work quarters. “This is the part of the
sliding hardware behind a soffit. The wife wanted to feature a pair of bronze house we live in the most,” the wife says. “Barton gave us a seamless addition
Han Dynasty horses above her bluestone office fireplace. To highlight these — and yet it is distinctively his, with his genius and flair.” AM
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