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A Modern Remodel Gets Underway - Demolition

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Construction on the 360 house modern remodel has begun. As of now they are still wrapping up demolition, so there's not much to see. Just in case you'd like to see the existing framing, here are some photos of today's site visit in Long Beach, CA.

remodel constructionView from the street. Already liking the form of the house better without the faux mansard roof and rough stucco.

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Living room

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Upstairs

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Upstairs office

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Stair

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Looking towards the area that will become the master bedroom

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Look out below

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Back yard demo

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View from the back yard

Modern Remodel Construction To Start Soon

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Update October 2009

Permits should be pulled any day now and construction is expected to start on the 360 house in the next few weeks. In progress construction photos of this modern remodel will follow shortly.

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Project Description - A Modern Remodel

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"Less is More"...

The famous saying is often linked to the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and drilled into every young student immediately after walking into the confines of just about any architecture school in the United States. It is an important idea, but one  overlooked (for unknown reasons) by the previous owner and builder of our client’s residence in Long Beach, California.

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Fortunately for modative, our client’s goals were perfectly aligned with this famous motto when we were asked to collaborate on a significant remodel of their single-family residence. "How about  'less' of just about everything?", our client asked. Less maintenance, less underutilized bedrooms, less underutilized space, and definitely less terracotta Spanish tiles.

What better way to start practicing Mies van der Rohe’s theories on minimalist architecture than to strip away the out-of-context Spanish tiles that adorned the top of the even more meaningless Mansard roof. Yes, that’s right, I said it... a Mansard roof: a hip-style roof first popularized by French architect Francois Mansart who died in 1666!

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Oh and lets us not forget, later revived by famous fast food chains Pizza Hut and McDonald's. Well, since our client wasn’t interested in franchising these popular establishments, and since Long Beach is really, really far away from France and the 1600’s, the roof was the obvious place to start. At least on the outside... 

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Redesigned roof line (view from street)

After redesigning the roof line, and adding a much more desirable (and functional...) Master Bedroom Suite, a thorough examination and reworking of the interior spaces was next to be considered.  Inside, there were too many bedrooms underutilized since the kids had left the house. So recognizing the entrepreneurial spirit of our clients and their much-deserved desire to work more from home, a new work and loft space was created by combining the upstairs bedrooms and transforming them into the central focus of the expanded interior space.

 

modern remodel Reconfigured ground floor

On the ground floor, we removed  just about every interior wall (less compartmentalization ), and provided more of a connection to the outdoors by opening up the back wall to the large rear yard and newly proposed patio, pool, spa and garden.

Goodbye, France... Hello, Long Beach. 

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Back yard with new pool, deck and terraced landscaping

contemporary interior remodelAdding volume to the interior

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