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In the end, with the help of some sponsors, the house for Malin’s family with four children cost $140,000. Below the ground, the stability of the post is provided with a 20-foot wide concrete pedestal which has been proven very successful against earthquakes, hurricanes, and floods. The cost to build Chemosphere, US$140,000 (equivalent to $1.21 million in 2019), was subsidized partly by barter with two sponsoring companies, the Southern California Gas Company and the Chem Seal Corporation. The concrete column, however, is not the element that supports the roof of the residence. But Malin approached John Lautner, having seen and liked a nearby house he had designed. The restoration received an award from the Los Angeles Conservancy and the house was declared a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 2004. Chemosphere, Author: CDernbach, CC BY 3.0. Impressum - Datenschutz - Datenschutz Lautner was highly aware of the dualism of the landscape, so he decided to place the public areas towards the panoramic view of the city, and the rest of the bedrooms and a bathroom facing the quiet nature of the hill. Formerly called "the most modern home built in the world" by the Encyclopedia Britannica, the Malin Residence was the stereotypical scientific vision of the future brought to life when it was built by American architect John Lautner in 1960. In his manner as a brilliant and imperious man, Lautner offered a bold and astonishing solution – a vertical line, a cross and a curve above it. It even has a window on the bottom part of the house that overlooks the car port. Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors, offices and users. The Taschen family was finally a suitable owner that highly appreciated Lautner’s work and with a keen taste in architecture and art.

It was then remodeled in 1977. Built for the client Malin Lautner, a young aircraft engineer, the design of the residence was in fact an engineering challenge due to its location on a forty-five degree slope in an earthquake-prone region. See more ideas about House, John lautner, Architecture.

The modern icon floats above the city and was named one of the all time top ten houses in Los Angeles. Since the terrain is pinched down, a funicular is used for entering the house. See more ideas about John lautner, Architecture, Architect. Los Angeles, CA. Lautner’s mentor Frank Lloyd Wright regarded him as the second best architect in the world – highly influencing his style, primarily with the idea of a building as a total concept. Under this rooflight there is a fireplace and a sitting area. AD Classics: Malin "Chemosphere" Residence / John Lautner, the world's most visited architecture website, © All rights reserved.

Built in 1960 in the San Fernando Valley side of the Hollywood hills, the Chemisphere is a great representation of Organic Modernism with a specific Southern Californian character. These materials were chosen due to the earthquake zone it's located in, and the house has actually withstood hurricanes and floods, proving its structure successful. The lot had been given to a young aerospace engineer by his father-in-law; despite his own limited means, the engineer, Leonard Malin, was determined to live there. The inside of the house is a column-free open space. There are no solid external walls but only eight large wide-screen windows that give a staggering panoramic view over Los Angeles. It wasn’t until 1998 Benedict Taschen, the owner of the famous publishing house, bought and completely restored it to live there with his family.

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The client, however, had a small budget (only $30,000) so Lautner instead took advantage of the client's extensive imagination and rejected both structural methods for one that would cost about half of the conventional solution with retaining walls and land drains. It actually does not even continue up into the interior. The inside of the house is … At the peak of the house, where the column would have been, Lautner placed a circular rooflight in order to provide lighting in the deepest part of the plan. John Lautner’s Chemosphere, Author: evdropkick, CC BY 2.0.

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He managed to make a perfect harmony between the outside appearance and inside feeling – it looked like an enclosed and well protected U.F.O., but felt like a cozy, calming and floating place, providing an almost spiritual lulling experience. Steel struts shoot out from the single column to support the floor of the house. The interior is divided into several designated spaces. This car port is the beginning of the entrance to the house. Since it was used for exclusive, high-class parties the interior was pretty altered and ruined. ArchDaily 2008-2020. The structure of the residence is made of steel and timber, and the roof is supported by curved portal frames of laminated wood. The Malin House “Chemosphere” by architect John Lautner was built in Hollywood, California, United States in 1960 - 1961. When John Lautner was given the site in 1960, there were two common methods for building houses on the difficult sloped land. During the next 25 years, the house was constantly on the market, only occupied as a rental. The perfect architectural language of the Chemosphere doesn’t get boring to … The Chemisphere is a one-story octagon with 2200 square feet of living space that rests atop a 5 foot-wide concrete pole about 30 feet high. On the contrary, Mr. Taschen says it is a warm, peaceful place with an expansive always changing view, like a wide-screen movie. A globally acclaimed house built by Frank Lloyd Wright is now more accessible to the public. Chem Seal provided the experimental coatings and resinsto put the house together and inspired the na… Lautner's futuristic "flying saucer" quickly caught the eyes of the Hollywood industry and the house has since appeared in films including Body Double and Charlie's Angels. Malin had US$30,000 to spare. Benedikt Taschen. Chemosphere, Author: Bobak Ha’Eri, CC BY 3.0. The perfect architectural language of the Chemosphere doesn’t get boring to its residents. Window openings were placed along the perimeter of the house, and there is even a window on the bottom part of the structure looking over the car port. Unfortunately, such a house required expensive maintenance and since the aerospace industry was in remission, Malin were forced to sell the house in 1972. Text description provided by the architects. Lautner perched the entire one-story octagon on a single 30-foot concrete column, leaving the natural surroundings untouched. They hired Frank Escher, a preservation architect who wrote a monograph on Lautner and was responsible for overseeing Lautner’s archives, to completely restore the house in accordance with the original drawings and ideas. Dec 5, 2014 - Explore hemingwaydesign's board "The Chemosphere House", followed by 1168 people on Pinterest. The restoration received an award from the Los Angeles Conservancy and the house was declared a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 2004. The Chemisphere also reflected the Los Angeles optimism of the time; it was freshly defined architecture, with new shapes that didn’t have to resemble a house. Some of them were not possible at the time due to restrictions of the day’s technology. Lautner’s Chemosphere, Author: ikkoskinen, CC BY 3.0. After the car is parked a private furnicular, or an inclined railway, ascends up the slope and lands at a narrow bridge which spans from the ground to the entrance near the kitchen. The house, nicknamed the "Chemosphere" hovers 30 feet over the city of Los Angeles resembling a UFO aircraft. Floor plan of the Chemosphere house in Los Angeles taken from p70 Popular Science, April 1961. john lautner, Estimulante estructura que resuleve con un único pilar coronado por una forma “futurista” octogonal de una forma la gran pendiente en la que se inserta la Casa Malin “Chemosphere…, Architect: John Lautner From: Popular Science - 1961, Joshua White - Photography of Fine Art and Architecture, Architect: John Lautner From: Life - 1961, FUTURE EYES We have developed eyewear with multi-faceted lenses designed to enhance the mental capacity of anyone who chooses to wear them. It actually does not even continue up into the interior. Jun 24, 2019 - Explore Andreia FiLipa's board "CHEMOSPHERE", followed by 113 people on Pinterest. To build the conventionally required retaining walls was way too expensive for Malin’s budget of $30,000. Malin insisted that it wasn’t an intention to make it look like a space craft, it was just a best structural application that suited the site and his needs. The second owner was killed by robbers in 1976. Even though its sleek, octagonal design looks more like a space ship than a family home, Lautner mastery can be traced in the fact that he made it a profoundly relaxing and harmonious house that calms and shelters you. The northern side facing the views contains the public spaces such as the living room, kitchen and dining area, while the side facing the hills contains four bedrooms and bathrooms.. At the center of the house, there’s a spectacular fireplace, surrounded by an exposed brick wall and a skylight above, to let the daylight flow in freely. The Flintstones House – It’s Almost Invisible From a Distance. In 1984 it appeared in Bryan de Palma’s Body Double, and even in an episode of the Simpson’s which mocked it as a difficult sell. All images are © each office/photographer mentioned. Leonard Malin was a young aerospace engineer who was given a dramatic sloped lot, angled at 45 degrees, from his father-in-law. The Chemosphere is a very fitting start to the “Best Of L.A.” series since for many people any conversation about the most interesting houses in L.A. must begin with the iconic Chemosphere house. The ground could be cut to create a level platform or the house could be supported on an open steel framework. John Lautner’s famous Malin House or the Chemisphere is a modernist masterpiece that was one of the most modern buildings of its time that still amazes with it’s sophisticated and ingenious design.

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