Interior: The Wave House program connects all of its spaces into a holistic integrated plan, creating a seamless flow between ground floor and upper level bedrooms and interior and exterior, with broad sliding glass doors opening from the central kitchen, dining, and living space onto courtyards and outdoor rooms. The feathers pitched at 30 degrees cast constantly changing shadows throughout the day. ![]() Layered onto the courtyard wall, an intricate two-story overlapping of “feathers” keeps the house cool and dry, allowing air to circulate beneath. Terms like roof, wall and eaves, gave way to expressions found in nature - fins, icing, river lines and feathers. The shadow lines flow continuously nearly 60 feet from the top of the parapet, down the roof, finally cascading to the bottom of the front wall in one single flow, more than 300 unique custom-cut pieces. The architectural team digitally scripted a “rule set”, allowing them to freely adjust hundreds of individual pieces into a self-organizing form.Įxterior: As a tailor crafts a suit of clothing, the aluminum skin was digitally rolled and unrolled, then cut by a CNC machine and finally attached to a complex metal substructure made of straight lines, leaving a space between the white aluminum panels of exactly 1 ¾”. White aluminum blends with cloud and sky.ĭigital Technique: The design-build of this rippling rain-screen required parametric aircraft design software, including Rhino’s Grasshopper. The lines draw the eye, and the eye follows, the lines direct our vision and our experience. The house and its forms collaborate with nature, with light. Shadows and light change with time of day and year. Lines between roof and walls are blurred first and second stories connect organically. The design brief was to create a work of art for living a home as inspiring as the natural world around us, with a program exquisitely crafted to facilitate the life of a modern family.Īpproach: This universe is made of waves and particles. ![]() The Wave House, and each of its design elements, is as unique as nature itself. ![]() There are no two snowflakes, or patterns of zebra or giraffe that are the same. “ Brief: A lyrical organic structure inspired by the patterns of nature, the Wave House in Venice Beach is a residence as a work of art. Location: Venice Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States Wave House by Mario Romano: a work of art inspired by the patterns of nature for a modern family (with video)
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