Burton Residence | Avi Galili | 2025 | 澳大利亚
Creating smaller destinations within a larger whole was central to Los Angeles architect Avi Galili’s design for Burton Residence, home to a family of eight.Designed for a young family of eight, the Burton Residence in Los Angeles by Avi Galili Architects is at once open and protective, sociable and serene. Following the site’s gentle fall from street to garden, the home composes a sequence of spaces that invite discovery, encouraging the family to move fluidly between shared life and quieter retreat. Inside, a robust yet tactile palette of cedar, plaster and brick is tuned to endure daily use while growing warmer with time.
Arrival sets the tone. Rather than a straight shot from footpath to front door, the entry lifts and meanders, stepping across wide landings and beneath an olive tree before reaching the threshold. “I love a slow entry sequence,” says architect Avi Galili. “You see the entry, but you can’t get there in a direct line. You discover it as you progress.” The approach softens privacy from the street and establishes the layered sensibility that continues within.Central to family life is an expansive living and kitchen domain that dissolves into the rear garden, its long eaves and corner glazing holding light while tempering heat. Yet this isn’t a single, undifferentiated ‘great room’. Galili works in layers, embedding smaller destinations within the larger whole, where six children and two parents can be together without being on top of one another. At the hearth, a deep, elongated surround becomes furniture, with concealed storage to one side and daybed-like ledges to the other. “I wanted the hearth to feel wide and deep so you can throw cushions down and read or nap right by the fire,” Galili notes. On visits, the architect has found one child asleep near the fireplace, another reading on the cushions, others orbiting the space in their own ways.
Upstairs, the landing isn’t a corridor but a corner book nook with deep upholstered seating recessed into the facade, surrounded by a green roof and oriented to an unobstructed sunset. “It lets each child have their own moment while staying within the larger context,” says Galili. In the kitchen, a built-in breakfast banquette claims the corner window, the spot where homework, snacks and conversation spool out at day’s end. These modest but precise insertions make the house feel generous without adding square metres, giving the family a range of scales in which to live.Materially, the exterior balances warmth and gravitas. Vertical western red cedar introduces a soft, domestic grain while sheltered overhangs and careful orientation protect it from the hardest sun. An elongated, thin brick courses upward in a tall interior-exterior wall, grounding the composition from footpath to powder room and adding a handmade tactility to the entry sequence. Metal fascias keep the roof profiles lean, allowing eaves to hover lightly and sightlines to remain crisp. Galili describes material selection as integral to massing rather than an afterthought, with durability, maintenance and touch all considered from the outset.
The plan is disciplined. Basement level becomes the play zone where mess can live out of sight. The main floor is for cooking, eating, lounging and drifting outdoors. Bedrooms are compact but abundant, prioritising function and amenity over surplus area so the parents can retreat to a quieter primary suite. Within a tight urban envelope and a 2.4- to 3.6-metre fall across the block, upper volumes subtly step back, reducing apparent mass and preserving the neighbourly scale. “I like to work in layers,” says Galili. “Whether it’s composing materials and mass or overlapping roof planes, if you can do it elegantly, the home feels inviting rather than overbearing.”Collaboration sharpened the result. Landscape designer Isabel Moritz softened edges with grasses, groundcovers and carefully tuned lighting, amplifying the sense of reveal on approach and at the pool garden. Interior designer Heidi Seidell curated furniture, textures and lighting at proportion and pace, testing pieces in situ to ensure the composition felt lived rather than staged. The homeowner, Judd Burton – who also served as builder – brought a craftsperson’s attention to executing details cleanly and efficiently, reinforcing the home’s directness and longevity. “It was refreshing to collaborate with a builder who shared a strong sense of scale and a genuine eagerness to refine and resolve details together on site.”
For Galili, the measure is how a house performs over time. “If it still feels good after a few years, that’s the ultimate test,” he reflects. At the Burton Residence, the test is being lived daily – a family connected across layered rooms and gentle thresholds, in a home that favours material honesty, human scale and the quiet pleasure of use.
Architecture by Avi Galili Architects. Interior design by Heidi Seidell. Build by J. Burton Builders. Landscape design by Isabel Moritz Landscape Design.
- 项目文案：James Lyall Smith
- 项目摄影：Ryan Gobuty
- 转载自：The Local Project
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- 语言：英语
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