| DAVID FORBES HIBBERT, AIA |
EUCLID APARTMENTS |
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The project is designed to provide housing for young professionals within the business and retail heart of Santa Monica. The housing arrangement, around a courtyard and a series of walkways, affords each of the thirteen units, an exterior front and back door. The landscaping at each side and within the courtyard, along with the full-height windows and patio doors, make use of a long standing modernist tradition in California residential architecture, that of indoor/outdoor garden living. Similarly, the horizontal lines of the siding, eaves and canopies play off the vocabulary of the 1950's California case studies homes. Metal screens, open steel stairs and industrial metal elements such as roof access ladders are embraced as the aesthetic vocabulary of the building. The composition of three buildings rest on a subterranean parking structure, maintaining a low density appearance with the advantages of covered parking and unit access. |
