John Lautner House Floor Plan

The chemosphere is a modernist house in los angeles california designed by john lautner in 1960.

John lautner house floor plan. The design of john lautner s arango house also called marbrisa house is inspired by the natural features of the site. There is an additional existing guest bedroom west of the master bedroom under the carport roof structure but since it is not depicted in the original drawings it was not modeled. The space was distributed in 5 bedrooms 4 bathrooms and a living room completely open to the terrace protected only by a forced air curtain that extends inside to the. Lautner said he designed the house from the inside out purposely avoiding façade design.

About john lautner john lautner buildings news plans and. The michael lord gallery is. Floor plan this is my interpretation of the original floor plan. The next house in our series on john lautner is the harpel house.

Where the present owner visited the lautner archive and found plans and even early photographs. Nine years after the jacobsen house we can see that structure is clearly a major theme in john lautner s work. The ocean and the sky. At other times instead of being taken.

The building which the encyclopædia britannica once called the most modern home built in the world is admired both for the ingenuity of its solution to the problem of the site and for its unique octagonal design. The property was the famed architect s largest undertaking sprawling across six acres. Harpel displays his ongoing interest in developing a fully integrated and expressed structural system for each project as an important architectural value. The house was commissioned in 1970 by jeronimo arango as a weekend home for his family and in 1973 the architect built a 25 000 square foot home that seemed to float above the water.

John lautner s circular wooden house from the 50 s goes on sale for the first time. John lautner s 1956 harpel house i renderings overview. John lautner after years of. Like the house floor schaffer has shaped hourglass the spatial movement determines fireplace and entrance is in the middle.

Floor plan level 0 image courtesy of james goldstein. He can still be found attending architectural events and playing card games with a friend who owns a lautner house. Malin residence also known as the chemosphere 1960 which has become one of his best known and most influential creations located at 776 torreyson drive los angeles the house was designed for young aerospace engineer leonard malin in 1960 and built by john de la vaux. Of all john lautner s creations the hope residence might be the least well known but the most unforgettable.