a skylit studio

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After taking a little well-needed vacation, I’m back with more frame.  Specifically, I’m sharing a continuation of the past two posts – a hillside studio and home.  Both of these projects included a small cubic volume topped with a pyramidal skylight.  This particular ‘studio’ typology is explored more fully here.  While the exterior is a solid white stucco-ed cube, the interior shows a four-square heavy timber frame, with a pair of wood scissor trusses forming a smaller cube at the top, which is itself topped by the skylight proper.  Since the geometry is a bit difficult to make out in these projections, I’ll draft up a quick perspective for a subsequent post.

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a studio, hillside

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Small (often illegal) studios riddle the Hollywood Hills, where all ilk of entertainment-oriented folk hash out their hits and edit down their next Oscar-worthy performances. . . or so the stereotype goes.

This is such a studio – a miniature white cube set deep into the hillside with a service shed and private garden adjacent.  Upon approach, only the pyramidal skylight is visible, slowly revealing the tall archways underneath upon descending a spiral stair.  The form itself owes much to both Irving Gill and O.M. Ungers, with a few picturesque moments from Wallace Neff’s Spanish Colonial Revivalism thrown in for good measure.  Upcoming posts will feature the interior of the studio, with that large skylight and intricate trusswork above.