Flip Flop Home By Dan Brunn

Flip Flop Residence is a personal residence situated in Venice, California.

It was developed by Dan Brunn, and has magnificent views above the adjacent seaside.

Flip Flop Residence by Dan Brunn:

“The house’s conceptualization started by mapping the neighboring houses and cautiously delving into the client’s daily routines. A distinguished couple in the city’s artwork and enjoyment scene, the clients reside and function together and share a frequent passion for photography. They also personal an extraordinary collection of digital artwork pieces that they longed to showcase even though nonetheless retaining the lot’s expansive ocean views. Many homes in Venice are made to maximize beachfront accessibility and have tiny interaction with the neighborhood’s active pedestrian networks. In creating the Flip Flop house, there was a need to have to make use of the couple’s art pieces as a medium to communicate with the surrounding neighborhood. Thus, specified style components that are usually constrained solely to their mechanical functions are reincarnated into display devices. The adjustable nature of the third story’s rotating walls makes it possible for the façade to mutate, both revealing or concealing artwork. As well as affording dramatic seashore views, these walls delineate a flowing symmetry they easily swing open to divulge a properly aligned view with surrounding palm trees.

Comprised of a coolly minimalist sophistication, the façade of this personal residence is subtly deceptive in its simplification and dominates the internet site with protruding and retracting floors and ceilings. The obscuring of the interior columns of the home with an substantial program of diaphanous glazing enhances the optical illusion by means of a visual push and pull, which keeps the viewer guessing as to how the walls and slabs are supported. The enormous overhangs not only facilitate ample outside balconies, but also appear as one particular constant surface folded in on itself.

Integral to the design principle is the choreography of circulation dynamic relationships abound inside of the spatial and structural arrangement, the lighting conditions and even the material finishes. As a single traverses through the area, a pattern of walking arises that is charged with numerous vantage points and visual influence. This vibrantly navigated rhythm is punctuated by the central glass staircase, where a single continually turns at appropriate angles among the bifurcating interior spaces and the immense expanse of unfurling vistas.

A duet of wrapping and folding is systemic in all factors of the style strategy. All finish applications are fluid as stainless polished steel impeccably encircles columns, back-painted glass spills more than kitchen counters and cabinetry and translucent glazing hangs smoothly around the staircase. This magical manipulation of materials reaches a ideal pitch with the terrazzo peeling cost-free from the floor to fold over and glide elegantly along every single tread of stair, appearing to be a liquefied sheet of stone.

As resources snake and slip above the structure and furnishings, the binary nature of dark matte grays that pop in the glossy white surroundings plays a strong trick of the eye with a reversal of optimistic and unfavorable area. The interior equilibrium in between floating masses and sound transparencies permits sunlight to glide into rooms with a meaningful geometric manner. The all round layout in conjunction with the diversity of materiality enables the designer to mold and form all aspects of the area, even incoming normal light.

Dynamic diagonal edges maintain the visual pendulum swinging as the kitchen’s custom-made cabinetry emits sweeping lines that carry the eye back to the ocean panorama and the master bath trimly opens onto a personal backyard patio open to the sky above.

The perform of difficult and soft, matte and reflective, shadow and light permeates each area within this three-story house. Expansive rooms movement seamlessly into endless ocean views as the flip-flop house unfurls itself as a single refined ribbon of room and light.”

Photographs by: Brandon Shigeta