NTDS

Our design task is (only) deceptively straightforward: a single family residence in the Hollywood Hills above Los Feliz, at/in/on/of the current site of Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis-Brown House.

How must the home adapt? How can it be understood as something other than an hearth of stability, standing timeless against a world of change? We are not speaking of space-age bachelor pads and Progressive Couples loft interventions. These take care of themselves, and are over-examined anyway. We will be reconsidering that most prosaic of commissions, the free-standing family box, and do so with our arms, hearts and software open to the peculiarities of change, to the productiveness of deviation.

This series is one project and four projects both at the same time. The mechanism of design is that every 3 weeks a new house starts, thus, every new beginning is an accumulation of the previous design frame. External data inputs a new set of parameters each time; therefore, over the 'existing' conditions, change is applied as the instrument of variation.

-Hernan Diaz Alonso w/ Benjamin Bratton