hillside home in Los Angeles, California

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This is a study model for a 3, 800 square feet, hillside, three-story for spec house with attached garage located in the Beverly Glen area of the city of Los Angeles, California. The entire model-49 mb.- took 10 working days to complete. The file size was reduced to less than 10mb. in order for it to be uploaded here. The 49mb model was to be used, for the fifth and last attempt, at the Zoning Administrator's review, Department of City Planning. It was never built. The project got as far as plan check with only minor corrections. City Planning approval was required prior to issuing a building permit. I designed the project for the client and a registered structural engineer signed the drawings. In order to minimize the 'bulky' look of masonry retaining walls, I used maximum five feet high steel plates for retaining grade along the driveway. The client wanted the “Thirties-Hollywood-Spanish ' look on a lot with difficult topography. The project has only 5 retaining walls, down from 24, and is 36 feet high max. Calculations put the total export to less than 2,000 CY. I created the model using the exterior elevations, which, after adding windows and doors, carefully rotated them 90 degrees then joined them. It was a much better approach rather than “push-pulling” the walls. You can download the complete Zipped 20meg model on the download page of my site. The site is under construction. Copyright A.V. Holz #charlie_chaplin #hillside_ordinance #hollywood_1920s #hollywood_1930s #mission_style #spanish_revival #wc_fields