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Stradella Residence in Bel-Air, Los Angeles
Remodelling of Luxury Real Estate, CA, USA – design by SAOTA
23 May 2018
Stradella Residence
Design: SAOTA
Location: Los Angeles, California, USA
Stradella Residence

Photos: Adam Letch
SAOTA?s first completed project in Los Angeles, Stradella, is a remodel of an existing 1970?s house on a beautiful promontory in Bel Air.

The original layout of site and dwelling were well planned to ensure privacy from the street and to address spectacular views over the LA basin, capturing the full panorama from Downtown to Century City, with mountains to the east and ocean to the south.
On the client?s instruction to expunge all traces of the original Spanish style architecture, SAOTA decided to strip the existing house back to its timber skeleton, maximize the square footage and, by reinforcing or extending where necessary, create generous openings to draw the beautiful West Coast light, the rolling vistas and the verdant setting deep into the floorplan. This concept of ?inviting the outside in? encapsulates the SAOTA approach, and at Stradella these informed design decisions ranging from space planning to façade design, landscaping, lighting, window configuration and shading details.

An attractive approach cut into deeply wooded hillside arrives at a leafy forecourt signaling the entrance of the house. The arrival fa�...