Oxford Triangle Residence, Venice Beach California

Oxford Triangle Residence, Venice Beach, California, CA Home, Californian Real Estate Development, US Property Images

Oxford Triangle Residence in Venice Beach California

July 1, 2022

Contemporary Venice Beach Home

Architect and Builder: M Royce Architecture

Location: Venice Beach, Los Angeles, California, USA

Oxford Triangle Residence Venice Beach California

Photos: Sam Frost and Michael Reynolds

Oxford Triangle Residence, California

In Venice Beach, this architect’s home is a striking exception to the local vernacular. Located on a tight triangular site, it draws from myriad international influences in its design while still staying true to its local roots as a Venice Beach house.

Oxford Triangle Residence Venice Beach

Set along a historic electric streetcar line that ran from 1905 to the mid-1950s on Oxford Avenue, just adjacent to the main thoroughfare of Abbot Kinney Boulevard, it nods to Venice’s past and present

Oxford Triangle Residence Venice Beach

Oxford Triangle Residence Venice Beach California

Constructed primarily from industrial materials such as board-formed concrete, glass and raw copper, it stands in stark contrast from the early 20th century Craftsman bungalows, midcentury ranch-style and postwar stucco houses that proliferate the area.

Oxford Triangle Residence Venice Beach

Oxford Triangle Residence Venice Beach

Much of the design was inspired by a trip to Iran in 2013. The city of Kashan is famous for grand villas with elaborate basements. Every house has a room in the bottom of the basement filled with snow in the winter. It wouldn’t melt even into summer so that would be their refrigerator. Every house has a water feature in a sunken courtyard to cool the breezes. On the way home via London, another inspiration became row houses. Nearly all of them have a basement and a little gap between the sidewalk and the house, and a little bridge. It was just enough to bring light down into a few windows in the basement, an amazing use of space, rarely seen in California.

Oxford Triangle Residence Venice Beach California

Venice Beach residence design by M Royce Architecture

In this design, space was carved out between the public sidewalk and building. Everything above ground was about maximizing the footprint, then below ground is where space mixed with drawing down natural light and ocean breezes.

Venice Beach home design by M Royce Architecture

The frontage of the house can be completely opened up to make the most of the California climate. Sunken 3 feet below ground, the ground floor (which holds a living room and kitchen) is surrounded by foliage, creating a tall wall of greenery that offers a sense of privacy, despite there being streets on three sides of the site. An infinity pool that curves around the bow of the house and is level with the floor adds a further air of serenity. The water from the pool cascades to the basement level below, poetically connecting the two levels.

Oxford Triangle Residence Venice Beach CA Oxford Triangle Residence Venice Beach CA

Details reiterate the overall dialogue between architecture and nature. The steel railings that accompany the main staircase were left to naturally rust and patinate, the main bathroom has smoky plaster walls with similar coloring, and the exterior concrete and copper are intentionally left to weather and age.

Oxford Triangle Residence Venice Beach CA Oxford Triangle Residence Venice Beach California

A guesthouse located behind was designed to resemble a piece of driftwood. The wood we used to form the concrete on the main house was reused as the structure for the guesthouse. The material palette here draws directly from the historic railroad. Largely built from wood and steel and utilizing a hydraulic airplane hangar door, which again references the idea of bringing the outside in, the two-storey guesthouse echoes the sculptural quality of the main house – two volumes standing together, embedded in a garden.

Oxford Triangle Residence Venice Beach CA

Oxford Triangle Residence in Venice Beach, CA – Building Information

Architect and Builder: M Royce Architecture – https://www.mroycearchitecture.com/

Project size: 4500 ft2
Site size: 4000 ft2
Completion date: 2020
Building levels: 4

Structural Engineer: John A. Martin & Associates, Inc.
Concrete Contractor: Creative Concrete

Oxford Triangle Residence Venice Beach CA

Photography: Sam Frost and Michael Reynolds

Oxford Triangle Residence, Venice Beach California images / information received 010722 from M Royce Architecture

Location: Venice Beach, Southern California, United States of America

Venice Beach Houses

Venice Beach Homes

Venice Beach House
Design: Montalba Architects
Venice Beach House Los Angeles California
photograph : Kevin Scott
Venice Beach House in Los Angeles, California

Marco Place House
Marco Place House Venice Property
photograph : Luke Gibson Photography
Marco Place House Venice

Laura Kimpton’s Venice House
Laura Kimpton's Venice House For Sale
photo : Paul Barnaby
Laura Kimpton’s Venice house for sale

California Buildings

Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building at the University of CaliforniaIrvine, California
Architects: LMN Architects
Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building at the University of California, Irvine
image Courtesy architecture office
Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building at the University of California

Californian Architects

The Main Museum of Los Angeles Art
Design: Tom Wiscombe Architecture
Main Museum of Los Angeles building
image courtesy of architects studio
The Main Museum of Los Angeles Art

American Architect

American Houses

Comments / photos for the Oxford Triangle Residence, Venice Beach California designed by M Royce Architecture page welcome