Flip Flop Residence By Dan Brunn

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

It was created by Dan Brunn, and has magnificent views in excess of the adjacent seaside.

Flip Flop Home by Dan Brunn:

“The house’s conceptualization began by mapping the neighboring homes and meticulously delving into the client’s everyday routines. A distinguished couple in the city’s art and entertainment scene, the clients live and function together and share a typical passion for photography. They also personal an remarkable collection of digital art pieces that they longed to showcase even though nonetheless retaining the lot’s expansive ocean views. Several homes in Venice are developed to maximize beachfront accessibility and have minor interaction with the neighborhood’s lively pedestrian networks. In creating the Flip Flop residence, there was a want to make use of the couple’s artwork pieces as a medium to talk with the surrounding community. Thus, specific design and style components that are normally restricted solely to their mechanical functions are reincarnated into show devices. The adjustable nature of the third story’s rotating walls enables the façade to mutate, either revealing or concealing artwork. As effectively as affording dramatic seashore views, these walls delineate a flowing symmetry they simply swing open to divulge a completely aligned view with surrounding palm trees.

Comprised of a coolly minimalist sophistication, the façade of this private 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 house with an comprehensive technique of diaphanous glazing enhances the optical illusion through a visual push and pull, which keeps the viewer guessing as to how the walls and slabs are supported. The massive overhangs not only facilitate ample outside balconies, but also seem as one steady surface folded in on itself.

Integral to the design and style principle is the choreography of circulation dynamic relationships abound within the spatial and structural arrangement, the lighting problems and even the material finishes. As one particular traverses via the space, a pattern of strolling arises that is charged with several vantage factors and visual affect. This vibrantly navigated rhythm is punctuated by the central glass staircase, in which a single continually turns at proper angles amongst the bifurcating interior spaces and the immense expanse of unfurling vistas.

A duet of wrapping and folding is systemic in all facets of the layout strategy. All finish applications are fluid as stainless polished steel impeccably encircles columns, back-painted glass spills in excess of kitchen counters and cabinetry and translucent glazing hangs smoothly all around the staircase. This magical manipulation of materials reaches a best pitch with the terrazzo peeling cost-free from the floor to fold in excess of and glide elegantly along every 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 potent trick of the eye with a reversal of optimistic and unfavorable area. The interior equilibrium among floating masses and solid transparencies enables sunlight to glide into rooms with a meaningful geometric method. The general layout in conjunction with the diversity of materiality permits the designer to mold and form all elements of the area, even incoming all-natural light.

Dynamic diagonal edges preserve 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 private backyard patio open to the sky above.

The play of difficult and soft, matte and reflective, shadow and light permeates each and every room inside of this three-story house. Expansive rooms flow seamlessly into limitless ocean views as the flip-flop house unfurls itself as a single refined ribbon of room and light.”

Images by: Brandon Shigeta