Air Frame Pavilion & Guest House
Los Angeles, California
- Architecture/
- Landscape Architecture/
- Interior Design
Perched atop a Bel Air hillside, with sweeping 270-degree views of Los Angeles and the Pacific Ocean, sits the Air Frame Pavilion. With its sleek steel skin, this minimalist sculptural form complements and enhances the strong geometry of the existing three-story Gwathmey Siegel main house yet confidently stands apart as its own unique expression.
Collaborators
Imagined as a kit of parts in concept and fabrication, the pavilion takes its cue from automotive design. Its walls are constructed of ¾” thick steel plate — welded, sanded smooth, and painted glossy to create a monolithic building skin.
The bright-white furnishings emphasize the pavilion’s purity of shape and reiterate the gallery-like feeling of the structure.
An adjacent guest house picks up on the cues of preceding structures and promote the same openness and frame views that are a signature of this property.
