Project Data:

Completion Date:     12/25/2023

Square Footage:      6300

Building Use:           Single Family Residence

Project Description:

Skyline is a modern family home designed to support the unique activities of its equally unique inhabitants - each of whom require thoughtful, individual spaces for growth, but also request a home that emphasizes the importance of a connected family experience. Here, life revolves around the diverse needs of the family and in response, the house revolves around a central courtyard that brings light and visual connectivity to both levels of the home.

Envisioned as a House within a House, the upper floor “parent level” offers mom and dad all of their primary activities on one level, organized around the courtyard for optimal daylighting. Here, the garage, sunroom, kitchen, dining room, living room, master suite, craft room, and a guest bedroom suite for visiting grandparents are arranged.

Linked vertically by a light-filled stairway, the “child level” below offers a casual family room that is shared between the two kid’s bedrooms, each with easy access to a south-facing outdoor activity area. The central courtyard shares its light and space equally between the family room, entry, and gym spaces that are thoughtfully arrayed around it.

Reflecting the unique qualities of the family members, the various architectural components of the home also maintain an individual identity whilst coming together to create a complete unit. The primary roof of the upper floor seemingly floats above the space below, sloping inward toward the central courtyard as it gracefully rises to the sun permeating from the east, south, and west. Two-story vertical wall elements rhythmically organize the space of the home, creating a sense of individual rooms within a common order. Both in plan and elevation, the walls knit the home together and simultaneously offer organization, separation, and integration.

Skyline is a well-tailored home, custom fit to the lives of its users and quietly tempered by the beauty of the site and the sunlight that surrounds it.

Firm Name:              Anders Lasater Architects

Completion Date:     12/25/2023

Square Footage:      6300

Building Use:           Single Family Residence

Location:                 Tustin Hills, CA

Project Description:
• Designing for Integration by employing the central design concept of “light voids” that organize the architectural program, provide opportunity for day light and natural ventilation, and offer a strong connection to the exterior spaces of the home. This central concept exploits opportunities for beauty and delight, and helps create a building that lifts the spirits of the owners while also delighting the senses on a daily basis.

• Designing for Energy by using several passive solar design features including recessed windows and architectural shading to promote day lighting while also limiting the sun’s heat infiltration into the home. Automatic window and skylight shading is tied to a central system to help regulate heat gain.

• Designing for Economy by minimizing the footprint of the project and designing an efficient plan that maximizes the operational aspects of the program for the user. The design also employs a restrained material palette of hardy finishes that are meant to last many years of exposure in the difficult marine environment.

• Designing for Well-being by providing ample opportunity for user-tuned thermal comfort thorough operable windows, doors, and interior courtyard spaces that promote natural air circulation. The design employs several natural lighting strategies bringing light from all sides of the home, from clerestory windows, and from skylights above. Indoor air quality, biophilia and a strong connection to nature is promoted through the window and door configuration based on the central design concept of the “light voids”. At the same time the design actively mitigates views to adjacent neighbors thereby promoting a sense of privacy while also offering a sense of openness.

Design Architect:
Anders Lasater Architects, Inc.

Associate Architect or Firm:

Landscape Architect:
Michael Wilkes

Owner / Developer:

Engineer:
Burke Structural Engineering

General Contractor:
RDM General Contractors

Consultant:

Photographer:
Anders Lasater Architects, Inc.