Location: Echo Park, Los Angeles 
Type: Single Family
Design Team: Katy Barkan, Hannah Hortick, Laura Grombone
Date: 2023/24

Rough House is an addition to a two-bedroom bungalow on a steep and narrow lot in Echo Park.  The three-story addition comprises an ADU, an extended kitchen and patio, a family room, and primary suite. Maintaining the terracing logic of the site, the new mass stacks and twists to allow continued connection with the site and views. Crouching beneath a deep overhang the project mobilizes the ubiqutous language of the Craftsman roof and dormer to minimize the appearance on the site. 

Working within the Los Angeles residential material palate, the design deploys both rough and smooth material articulation to unravel and explore the seams between the high and the low, the found and the new, the ubiquitous and the rarified, to interrogate the aesthetic postures of these forms and materials.