MU77, Hollywood Hills
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Arshia Architects’ angular MU77 home perches over Hollywood Hills
LA-based studio Arshia Architects has shared with us MU77, one of their recently completed houses projecting from a steep Hollywood hillside on renowned Mulholland drive. The project, one of the newest additions to the iconic mountainscape. A series of practical and zoning related challenges shaped much of the overall form, as the house needed to be pushed to the lower end of the site closer to the public road while required view lines greatly informed the connected from interior to exterior. The house as an object differentiates itself from the landscape as a form alien to its surroundings, whose stark white envelope alludes to the nature of a stone having broken through the ground.
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