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  Project Title

  RO54

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  Winning Firm
  
  

  Arshia Architects

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  Lead Designer
  
  

  Arshia Mahmoodi

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  Awarded
  
  PLATINUM AWARD, ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, Residential Single

• Project Link
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• Project Location
  Los Angeles, United States
• Project Status
  Completed
• Completion Date
  June, 2022
• Client
  Mike Parsee
• General Contractor
  Domaen Build Inc
• Photographer credit
  Paul Vu / Renee Parkhurst / Yuheng Huang


• Architectural Firm
   
• Architect Firm / Studio Name
  Arshia Architects
• Lead Architect(s)
  Arshia Mahmoodi
• Other Team Members
  • Arshia Mahmoodi (Design Principal) • Xinlei Li (Project Manager, Project Designer) • Yuheng Huang (Project Designer) • Fang Cui (Project Designer) • Ruby Wu (Project Designer) • Zhishan Liu (Project Designer)
• About Firm
  Arshia Architects is a collective of designers dedicated to optimizing experiences between sentient and non-sentient domains, whose aim is to decipher our relationship with the world and its components at large and the implications our built environment has on its trajectory into the future. Our practice has been awarded by nationally and internationally recognized citations such as the American Institute of Architects and featured in prestigious venues such as the Museum of Contemporary Art.
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  Other Credits
  
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Perched on a hilltop in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles, overlooking the Pacific Ocean and the Los Angeles basin, the project gently lands a dynamic building on top of a buried podium that replicates the natural topography that was once there, before the area was subdivided for development. The design utilizes an unconventional split-level configuration to follow this topography with staggered floor plates over a central void space.

The project was informed by automotive performance design with concealed technologies that amplify the sensory performance of the architecture.