皮特曼·道威爾住宅，洛杉磯，美國

1 夜景/Night view（攝影/Photo: Iwan Baan）

皮特曼·道威爾住宅區位于洛杉磯以北24km，鄰近洛杉磯國家森林，占地2.43hm2。此住宅區原規劃是理查德·努特拉設計的一個山體住宅區，共有3層可建設地塊，但最終只建了努特拉1952年的舒如尼克住宅。一個廣闊的沙漠花園和露天亭占據了第二塊地。而今，皮特曼·道威爾住宅建造在最后一塊土地上，經過彎曲的道路可以抵達在斷崖邊的舒如尼克住宅。

一個現代主義地標的當代詮釋

從第一棟住宅的建設至今有50年了，其間，洛杉磯在不停地成長和改變。居住在第一棟住宅中的藝術家決定在這個地段上建第二棟住宅。他們設想的是一個能容納現代化生活方式并能體驗景觀環境的住所。

新的七邊形住宅設計的靈感來自環環相扣的多邊形，這是由很多對角切片形成的。圍合的建筑物上具有一系列精心設計的切口，朝向不同方向的景觀；東北墻上有一個橢圓形的天窗；位于入口的一道墻體在穿過住宅之后再次從建筑中穿出，限定了起居室外的南向陽臺。

空間的透視斷裂

2 總平面/Site plan

3 外景/Exterior view（攝影/Photo: Iwan Baan）

4 遠景/Distant view（攝影/Photo: Iwan Baan）

5 地段剖面/Site section

室內的生活空間通過一個變化的序列展開，形成了住宅內和望向外面山谷的多重框景。一系列不平行的墻壁將空間斷裂、延伸，沒有一個房間是完全圍合的。該設計中沒有門，私密感是通過層疊的空間和限定的視線獲得的。無門的構思讓人有空間延續的體驗，從一個房間流動到下一個房間，創造出一種區域的層疊感。住宅的中心是一個不規則形狀的中庭，其邊界融入了鄰接的起居空間。這樣的設計使移動和視覺聯系得以延展，回應了建筑的離心特質和周圍的環境背景。□

6 外景/Exterior view（攝影/Photo: Iwan Baan）

7 屋頂平面/Roof plan

8 平面/Floor plan

Located 15 miles north of Los Angeles at the edge of Angeles National Forest, the Pittman Dowell Residence sits on 6 acres of land originally planned as a small hillside subdivision designed by Richard Neutra. Although three level pads were originally cleared, only one house, Neutra's 1952 Serulnic Residence, was built on the site. An extensive desert garden and outdoor pavilion occupies the second clearing. Today, the Pittman Dowell Residences sits on the last clearing, circumscribed by the winding driveway which leads to the Serulnic Residence on the bluff above.

A Contemporary to A Modernist Landmark

Five decades after the original house was constructed in this once remote area, the city has grown around it with an accompanying change in both the visual and the physical context. While living in the original house, the artist owners decided to build a second residence on the site.They envisioned a home that would accommodate contemporary lifestyles and reflect an evolving attitude about the relationship between buildings and the landscape.

Inspired by geometric arrangements of interlocking polygons, the new residence takes the form of a heptagonal figure whose purity is confounded by a series of intersecting diagonal slices though the space. The emphatically closed object continuously re-frames and contextualizes its views through a series of precise, conscientious incisions at its shell; an oval window folds over the northeast wall to become a skylight; the splayed entry walls move through the house and emerge outside again to define a southern balcony off the living room.

A Perspectival Collapsing of Space

9 內景/Interior view（攝影/Photo: Iwan Baan）

10 內景/Interior view（攝影/Photo: Iwan Baan）

Inside the house, living spaces unfold in a shifting array of framed views of spaces within the house and vistas out to the valley below. These perspectival manipulations begin at the level of the room, collapsing and distending space through a series of non-parallel walls that never fully enclose the space of a room. Instead of using doors, a level of privacy is maintained by layering space and limiting view access. The unbounded nature of each room lends itself to a spatial continuity of experience, allowing each room to bleed or spill over into the next, creating an overlap of zones.An irregularly shaped void caught within these intersections creates an outdoor room at the center whose edges blur into the adjoining living spaces.In such ways, movement and visual relationships expand and contract to respond to the centrifugal nature of the building and context beyond. □

類型/Type: 私人住宅/Private residence

面積/Size: 288 m2/3 100 sf

造價/Cost: 客戶要求保密/Withheld at client's request

狀態/Status: 完成于2009年/Completed 2009

11 內景/Interior view（攝影/Photo: Michael Maltzan Architecture）

12 內景/Interior view（攝影/Photo: Iwan Baan）

13 展開平面/Unfolded plan

14 展開立面/Unfolded elevation

15 內景/Interior view（攝影/Photo: Michael Maltzan Architecture）