Oxford Triangle Residence Offers a New Spin on a Venice Beach House

If you have been to Venice Beach, California, the Oxford Triangle home is not your standard beach front home sighting. The distinctive dwelling sits on a narrow triangular lot by a historic electric streetcar line in use from 1905 to the mid 1950s. Architect Matthew Royce, of M Royce Architecture, built the dwelling for himself with inspiration drawn from a trip to Iran in 2013. Grand villas in the city of Kashan housed basements that stuffed with snow each winter, which became their refrigerator in the summertime. A return quit in London added much more inspiration – row residences with gaps involving the residence and sidewalk allowing for light into the basements under.



Royce translated the inspiration into the new residence by incorporating area involving the community sidewalk and the construction. Almost everything created over ground was to improve the restricted footprint, and under floor is in which the areas profit from natural light and ocean breezes filtering down.

The property is built applying industrial products, like board-formed concrete, glass, and uncooked copper, fairly the distinction from the bordering 20th century Craftsman bungalows, mid-century ranches, and write-up-war stucco homes.

The raw components on the exterior will slowly patina and age above time producing an ever-evolving appear. Related materials are employed on the two-story guesthouse with the exception of a hydraulic airplane hangar doorway that opens the house up to the outside the house.

The floor floor, which houses the kitchen area, living room, and deck, sinks 3 toes under ground so the foliage wrapped all over the perimeter of the house can produce privateness when the areas are opened up. An infinity pool runs correct together with the home and then wraps all around creating it quick to entry.

With the sliding glass walls opened up, the kitchen area extends to a patio and overlooks the elongated swimming pool.

Photos by Sam Frost and Michael Reynolds.