{"id":3426,"date":"2024-11-21T01:12:16","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T17:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/2024\/11\/21\/a-skinny-lot-where-less-is-more\/"},"modified":"2024-11-21T01:12:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T17:12:16","slug":"a-skinny-lot-where-less-is-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/de\/a-skinny-lot-where-less-is-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Ein mageres Grundst\u00fcck, auf dem weniger mehr ist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese are masters of building on slivers of land and maximizing tiny lots in dense urban areas. Americans less so; New Zealand-born, LA-based architect Simon Storey is a refreshing exception.<\/p>\n<p>Storey, who founded Anonymous Architects in 2005 (named thus as he likes his buildings to blend into an environment), took a 15-foot-wide Echo Park lot with a tiny house above a garage and turned it into a vertical, light-filled two bedroom home and office. It was, as he puts it, \u201cthe perfect site to experiment with compact and efficient urban living.\u201d Read on to see the results.<\/p>\n<p>Above: An open staircase with floating beech treads brings light into the living area.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/3718077794446025281.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Above: The kitchen features a concrete floor, Douglas fir cabinetry, and Formica countertops; it sits at a lower level from the wood floored dining area as a way to delineate space in the open living quarters.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/3454392936204772287.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Above: Large floor-to-ceiling windows at the front and back of the house provide plenty of light. Full-height doors open onto a guard rail, allowing for cross breezes. The Wow and Flutter Speaker was made by Storey.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/6423744277641246477.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Above: Storey designed his own wallpaper, called Torn and Confused, for the bedroom.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4032358688071640501.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Above: A roof deck with built-in seating affords views that extend as far as the Hollywood sign and the San Gabriel Mountains.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2458649179340029723.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Above: Since the building extends to the property line, fire code required the exterior to be fire resistant, so Storey clad the house with cement plaster.<\/p>\n<p>To see what the original structure looked like, check out Curbed LA.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Die Japaner sind Meister im Bauen auf kleinstem Raum und in der Maximierung kleiner Grundst\u00fccke in dichten Stadtgebieten. Amerikaner weniger; der in Neuseeland geborene und in LA ans\u00e4ssige Architekt Simon Storey ist eine erfrischende Ausnahme. Der neuseel\u00e4ndische Architekt Simon Storey, der 2005 das B\u00fcro Anonymous Architects gr\u00fcndete (so genannt, weil er m\u00f6chte, dass sich seine Geb\u00e4ude in die Umgebung einf\u00fcgen), hat ein 15 Fu\u00df breites Geb\u00e4ude im Echo Park [...]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interior-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}