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Lynn’s Bloom House has surprises inside By Sam Lubell
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The extended, warped chandelier. Images courtesy Ggreg Lynn Form. |
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Los Angeles architect Greg Lynn, known for experiments with computer-generated forms, is developing his first residential project. At first glance, the 4,200-square-foot Bloom House, at an undisclosed location in Southern California, looks like a simple stucco box, with an open first floor that steps upward at regular intervals. But its interior will have curvilinear surfaces emerging from its ceilings, walls, and almost everywhere else.
“I’m interested in taking the traditional zoning envelope and eroding it from the inside,” says Lynn.
A long, rounded translucent fiberglass chandelier will extend across the length of the first floor. The office, kitchen, upstairs hallway, and first floor will have plywood framing covered in curved plaster. Walls in the curvaceous master bedroom and bathroom will be shaped with thermoformed Corian. The house will have curved wood-framed windows and a kitchen island whose base swoops down toward the floor.
Lynn says such contours are not “gratuitous shape making,” but help create spaces that are very open but have little nooks for privacy and quiet. “It’s trying to take advantage of every square inch of the house,” he says. The project is expected to be completed by fall 2007.
May 2006 |
