Silver Lake House, the home of Jeffrey Allsbrook and Silvia Kuhle, partners of Standard Architecture | Design, may be recently refreshed, but it is organically anchored to its site, born out of lengthy, extensive research and a deep knowledge of the
The surrounding grounds unfold in a lush California garden full of native plants. Among them is a Mexican Ash tree which the architects ensured was preserved during the works. Responding to this context, Allsbrook and Kulhe envisioned their home as a green oasis, wrapped in a verdant landscape, and full of generous openings offering long vistas of the Los Angeles cityscape beyond.
Protecting privacy was equally important, Kuhle explains. 'We created an urban sanctuary, a space which is at the same time remotely perched on a sloping site surrounded by native plants and closely connected to its urban surroundings through open 180-degree views.'Ellie Stathaki is the Architecture & Environment Director at Wallpaper*. She trained as an architect at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece and studied architectural history at the Bartlett in London.