{"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\/it\/a-skinny-lot-where-less-is-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Un lotto magro dove meno \u00e8 meglio"},"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>I giapponesi sono maestri nell'edificare su porzioni di terreno e nel massimizzare i piccoli lotti in aree urbane dense. Gli americani lo sono meno; l'architetto Simon Storey, nato in Nuova Zelanda e residente a Los Angeles, \u00e8 una piacevole eccezione. Storey, che nel 2005 ha fondato lo studio Anonymous Architects (chiamato cos\u00ec perch\u00e9 gli piace che i suoi edifici si fondano con l'ambiente), ha preso un edificio di 15 metri di larghezza a 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\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}