Fratzi House

8413GRAND VIEW DR.LOS ANGELES

CA 90046

PAT.

FRATZIHOUSE

FRATZI INTERNATIONAL LLC555 West 59th Street, apt 28D

New York, NY 10019EIN 98-0654390

30211 Avenida De Las Banderas Ste 200Rancho Santa Margarita

CA 92688

The Strip is probably the best known portion of Sunset, embracing a premier collection of boutiques, res-taurants, rock clubs, and nightclubs that are on the cutting edge of the entertainment industry

Sunset Strip

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FRATZI HOUSE . 8413 Grand View Drive . Los Angeles . CA 90046

Chateau Marmont Laurel Canyon Boulevard“I would rather sleep in a bathroom

than in another hotel.” - Billy Wilder

Sunset Tower Apts.

8413 Grand View Drive

view from driveway

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Each and every morning When the sun is high I hunt around the Canyon Till I find a place to lie

Oh, oh, it’s so beautiful to be alone Got the sun and trees and silence I’m in my Laurel Canyon home

Looking back a century I look at where I stand It must have looked the same as when Apaches roamed the land

Now the sun is sinking It’s time to reminisce Here’s a way of living That I will sorely miss

John Mayall, Laurel Canyon HomeBlues From Laurel Canyon, Deram, 1969

I was living that year in a house on Yucca Avenue in the Laurel Canyon district. It was a small hillside house on a dead end street with a long flight of redwood steps to the front door and a grove of eucalyptus trees across the way.

Philip Marlow Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

8413 GRAND VIEW DRIVECONTEMPORARY CANYON LIVING

A green house for the arts.PAT. launch its new project

PAT. is going to marry its greatest passions in a new ambitious project hitting the ground in

the legendary Laurel Canyon neighbour on Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills.

A steep slice of rock on the top of Grandview drive, tucked in the middle between the spots

where novelist Raymond Chandler and British bluesman John Mayall used to live, will be

the unlikely fertile ground for a green home of the new generation.

PAT., whose love for hardboiled literature and blues music is matched only by the passion

for light and airy sustainable buildings, is designing a new uncompromising house for the

hillside site, who sits on top of the hill which faces West Hollywood’s Sunset Strip.

Flanked by local engineer Dimitri Vergun, who was responsible for the audacious

structures of many celebrated LA homes from the likes of Pierre Koenig, Coop

Himmelblau and Ed Niles, PAT. will cantilever from the rock a steel framed box.

Floating above the canyon as a dirigible, the house will offer an immersion in the natural

elements just a few minutes away from the excitement of the Sunset Strip.

Capitalizing on PAT.’s trademark no-nonsense, modular, integrated approach to building

design, the house will target LEED gold certifi cation.

The energy strategy will exploit the warm California sun and the site-specifi c Canyon

breeze to effi ciently control the home microclimate. A selective building envelope will

optimize solar gain according to the different hours and season of the years. The silvery

skin will change as a chameleon to adapt to the varying conditions, providing comfort and

the exhilarating experience of ever changing light and balmy air.

Expected to be completed in the spring of 2015, the house will welcome visitors in the

classic Case Study fashion: fully furnished. Instead of featuring the canonical mid century

modern pieces, PAT. will pay homage to its own country showcasing the best in modern

and contemporary Italian furniture design.

Upon completion, the home will open the doors to a summer of artists in residence.

A tribute to Laurel Canyon lineage in the development of the arts, the house will host a

series of time and site specifi c events and exhibitions.

PAT. architecture sustainability urban design Corso Novara 9910154 Torino

T +39 011 6600819F +39 011 0674473E [email protected] www.patdesign.it

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view from the project site

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garage level plan

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recreational room level plan

living room level plan

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bedroom level plan

view from north-east

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section BB . east elevation

section FF . west elevation

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view from north-west

view from the roof deck

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section AA

view from the roof deck

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section LL

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views from the living room entrance

view from the living room terrace

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section II

section GG

view from the east side

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section HH section CC

8413 GW: an house with a lineage

It may not be a case that the site at 8413 Grand View Drive sits on an ideal line joining Case Study House #21 and #22 by Pierre Koenig. The legendary Californian architect has been an enduring reference for PAT. since the early works of the firm. Back in 2001, working at the design of the Omes Factory, Andrea Veglia and Jacopo Testa turned at his matter of fact, no nonsense use of commercial steel sections in order to produce an economical yet refined building that eventually went on to win a string of awards.It was Koenig’s lesson again in the back of their minds when they entered the UIA Competition in 2008, whose aim was to select an economical, demountable, recyclable design to build a freestanding Infopoint Pavilion for the International Congress of the International Union of Architects. PAT. was awarded 3rd prize among almost 500 entries from all over the world.Although obviously fascinated by the sleek skin and bone aesthetic it produced, it is the logical, almost scientific, approach that lies behind Koenig’s work that moved PAT toward the Californian.And it is the approach, not merely the aesthetic that PAT. embraced and pushed forward.As Esther Mc Coy put it, Architecture is an evolutionary art, where one generation sits on the shoulders of the previous one. Today’s knowledge of materials, energy conservations and building dynamics can produce high performance buildings that greatly improves on yesterday’s standard.And as PAT. strives in his quest toward a sustainable architecture based on the effective use of materials and energy resources, the challenge posed by the Grand View site makes the task arduous as ever. The lot is steep and narrow, sloping South to North on the top of an hill in the Laurel Canyon area. The themes developed in CSH #21 and #22 overlap in Grand View: as for #21 the site shape calls for a building orientated on the North/South axis, and the challenge of building on a slope, dramatized in #22, is here even more demanding.Yet, the steep slope and the height limit regulation implies that a single story pavilion as the CSH is out of question, thus linking GW to another precedent in the off the shelf prefabricated steel framed houses lineage: Helmut Schulitz own house in nerby Beverly Hills.Add this that the lot is in a fire hazard area, the connection to the access road is a mere 25 feet, and the restriction posed by the Hillside Regulation of the Building code and what you have is a little project of amazing complexity.

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Design TeamArchitecturePAT. (Torino, Italy) Andrea Veglia (partner in charge), Francesca Thiébat, Benedetta Veglia, Jacopo Testa, Luca Rocca, Nicolò Radicioni, Alice Ferro

Structural engineeringDimitry K. Vergun (Culver City, CA)Dimitry Vergun (principal), Michael Landa

Mechanical engineeringFruchtman and Associates (Los Angeles, CA)David Fruchtman

Civil engineeringAshirt Engineering (Arroyo Grande, CA)Trisha Coffey

GeologistSouthwest Geotechnical (Santa Clarita, CA) Conrad Carrle

Topographic SurveyLand & Air Surveying (Malibu, CA)Mark Sandstrom (principal), Kate Bjork

Energy & environment consultantLuca Raimondo (Torino, Italy)

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