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Luxury Openhouse

Luxury Openhouse

The Openhouse designed by Xten architecure located in the Hollywood Hills, creation of a house that is both integrated into the landscape and open to the city below.

Luxury Openhouse

Luxury Openhouse

Retaining walls are configured to extend the first floor living level into the hillside and to create gardens on two levels. Glass, in various renditions, is the primary wall enclosure material. There are fortyfour sliding glass panels, each seven feet wide by ten feet high and configured to disappear into hidden pockets or to slide beyond the building perimeter. This creates a micro climate which surrounds the building, creating inhabitable outdoor spaces while reducing cooling loads within. Every elevation of the house opens to capture the prevailing breezes to passively ventilate and cool the house. A vestibule at the lowest point of the house can be opened in conjunction with glass panels on the second floor to create a thermal chimney, distributing cool air throughout while extracting hot air.

Luxury Openhouse

Luxury Openhouse

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