Location: Atwater Village, Los Angeles, California
Size: 1,700 sf House + 520 sf Studio
Type: Residential Remodel, Ground-Up Studio/Guest House & Landscape Design

The Garden House is a radical remodel with new landscaping of a modest bungalow in the Atwater Village neighborhood of Los Angeles. The goal with this house was to open up the inside by breaking of a chunk of the volume and pulling it away. The existing single-car garage has been torn down and a newly oriented art studio/guest house is shifted to the back of the lot, creating opportunities for a variety of outdoor rooms and more fluid use of the entire lot.

AIA LA Residential Architecture Citation Award: Adaptive Re-Use/Renovation/Historic Preservation, 2018

Architecture & Landscape Design: Design, Bitches
Structural Engineer: The Office of Gordon L. Polon Consulting Engineers
General Contractor: Southland Builders & Colin Thompson (Landscape/hardscape)
Photography: Laure Joliet

D,B Team: Rebecca Rudolph, Catherine Johnson, Henry Cheung