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TOLO

Peter Tolkin + Sarah Lorenzen ArchitectureHouses

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Peter Tolkin + Sarah Lorenzen Architecture

Principals Peter Tolkin and Sarah Lorenzen—working under the moniker TOLO—guide the design of a variety of project types at various scales throughout Southern California. The firm’s portfolio of built projects includes single and multi-family housing, mixed-use and retail, restaurants and hotels, and arts-based projects such as gallery spaces and large-scale installations. TOLO is located in a large industrial warehouse the firm renovated at the nexus of the Arts District, Little Tokyo and Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles. This space, which includes a fabrication shop, allows TOLO to test design ideas by means of prototypes and scale models. Since 2000, when Peter first founded the practice (Sarah joined in 2015), the firm’s projects have been frequently cited for their inventiveness and accomplished craftsmanship in design awards and in publications.

TOLO’s designs draw from the rich material and cultural conditions that characterize the world we live in. As a collection, the work is idiosyncratic given that each design strives to respond to the particularities of place and that the firm’s clients are engaged as active participants. Rather than conceiving of TOLO’s architectural role as solely inventors of form, Sarah and Peter also see themselves as documentarians: interpreters of dynamic relationships and situations. Each project begins with an understanding of the project’s backstory. From here TOLO develops a broad design brief that incorporates client and site narratives, along with relevant material and aesthetic references (be they from the high arts or from popular culture). This method of working allows TOLO to combine an interest in form and geometry with a project’s contextual and cultural reality in an architecture that is representative of our complex lives.

Firm Profile

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The intimate scale of residential work, particularly single-family homes, means that materiality and craft are as important as spatial concerns. In the homes we’ve designed and built, our choice of materials explicitly address the environmental and social context of the home, and also sustain the lifestyle of the family that will live there. Our Branch House in Montecito was lifted off the ground and clad entirely in copper shingles both as fire protection and to have the house blend into the oak grove the home sits within (once the shingles patina). For our Sunglass House in Malibu we used a series of rough concrete walls that moved from the landscape through the house and a freestanding reflective glass façade that shielded the house from the sun and mirrored the remarkable views. The Sherman House used board-formed concrete and wood to give this very modern project a rustic and warm appearance. In these houses as in our multi-family projects, the spacial arrangement and material choices foreground the idea of dwelling, comfort, and lived experience. The work included here shows our skills in crafting spaces that can bring enjoyment and pleasure through their tactile qualities.

Houses

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Sherman Residence Encino, California

Sunglass House Malibu, California

Branch House Montecito, California

Holly Vista ResidencePasadena, California

Vielmetter Residence Altadena, California

Park Drive Residence Los Angeles, California

Shasta Residence Mount Shasta, California

Gaines Landaverde House Los Angeles, California

Parker Studio Pasadena, California

Woodrow Wilson ConnectorLos Angeles, California

Wills RetreatLa Cañada Flintridge, California

Aluminum TableVarious Locations

Three Stools (Samples)Various Locations

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Sherman ResidenceEncino, California

Located on an extraordinary hillside site above the San Fernando Valley, the Sherman Residence was designed to unite indoors and outdoors. The house is made up of as a series of board-formed concrete, wood and glass pavilions connected via intersticial gallery spaces that together define a central courtyard. From each room one can see the rich and varied landscape, which includes indigenous large oaks, sycamores, “working” plants such as orange and avocado trees, palms and succulents. A singular low-slung wood roof with deep overhangs shades and unifies the overall composition.

Photographer: Peter Tolkin, Grant MudfordAwards: 2001 Excellence Award Southern California Ready Mixed Concrete Association

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Sherman ResidenceEncino, California

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Sunglass HouseMalibu, California

Located above the coast of Malibu, this two-story concrete and glass home is organized into a series of bands that hug the hillside and a central circulation spine. Living spaces are compressed between the retaining walls that hold back the earth and a series of glass facades facing the ocean and Santa Monica Bay. The name of the project stems from the physical and psychological protection provided by wearing reflective sunglasses. On the house the “glasses” allow for panoramic views of the ocean while also reflecting the landscape back onto the exterior face of the building.

Photographer: Benny ChanAwards: 2013 Citation Award, American Institute of Architects, Pasadena / Foothill Chapter, 2010 Excellence Award, Residential Concrete Building Category Southern California Concrete Producers2007 Merit Award, American Institute of Architects

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Sunglass HouseMalibu, California

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Branch HouseMontecito, California

Arranged in the round, the house was conceived as a cluster of individual room volumes each with a unique orientation to light and view. Working closely with an arborist, we situated the volumes in a grove of existing oak trees, floating the house off the ground by means of concrete piles to avoid injuring the roots of the oak trees. A circulation spine, lined with glass, connects the volumes and serves as a contemporary gallery to display the owner’s extensive art collection. A skylight, at each volume, provides additional natural light and a view to the sky.

Photographer: Peter Tolkin

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Branch HouseMontecito, California

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Holly Vista ResidencePasadena, California

The owners of this mid-century post-and-beam Pasadena house overlooking the Arroyo Seco asked us to add onto and adapt the house to meet their current needs. The renovation infused the home with a contemporary aesthetic while retaining the home’s original character (reminiscent of Cliff May’s Ranch-style houses). The project includes an extension to the master bedroom, a new outdoor living room, and updates to the pool, pool house, landscape, and hardscape. We were also asked to design and fabricate custom cabinetry for the home office and an aluminum and glass table for the dining room.

Photographer: Peter Tolkin

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Holly Vista ResidencePasadena, California

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Vielmetter ResidenceAltadena, California

A contemporary art gallerist and her scientist husband asked us to renovate their house in Altadena. The existing house, which had been built in several phases, was highly fragmented and closed off from the garden. Our task was to open up the house, rearrange the circulation, bring in more natural light, and create wall space for their art collection. We reduced the multiple spaces of the house into two main volumes, opened up the house to a new deck and pool, lifted the ceilings to take advantage of the space of the gables, added multiple skylights, and made the kitchen the home’s social center.

Photographer: Robert WedemeyerAwards: 2018 Citation Award, American Institute of Architects, Pasadena / Foothill Chapter

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Vielmetter ResidenceAltadena, California

FRAGMENTEDConvoluted circulation based on a house that was built over time.

Creation of a new spine to clarify the circulation path with the kitchen as the central hub.

UNIFIED

Original House

Addition 2

Addition 3

Addition 1

Addition 5

Addition 4

Kitchen

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OPENED

Small windows and irregular roofs makes the house look haphazard.

Large openings connect house to garden and pool. Simplified roof forms with skylights create airy and light filled interior.

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Park Drive ResidenceLos Angeles, California

This house, originally designed by an engineer in the 1970’s, is being remodelled to accommodate an artist and an architect. The original house is a “matter of fact” trapezoidal plywood box that follows the hillside grade. In the redesign we retained the existing plywood box, reworked the building’s interior configuration to add more light, and added a third story for a master bedroom and bath. The exterior is reclad and then wrapped with a secondary mesh screen to soften the geometry of the trapezoidal volume and to better integrate the building into the landscape. There will also be a new pool and artist studio.

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Shasta ResidenceMount Shasta, California

This single-family residence in Northern California is sited on a three-acre parcel at the base of Mount Shasta. The functions of the house are arranged around views of the four major geographical features that surround it: Mount Shasta, Black Butte, Mount Eddy, and The Crags. During the design process these natural features were used as experiential compass points, each having a different degree of “pull” in determining the spatial organization of the house. The kitchen, located at the center of the house, functions as the common gathering space with views of the entire landscape.

CASTLE CRAGSELEV : 6000’

MT. EDDYELEV : 9026’

BLACK BUTTEELEV : 6825’

MT. SHASTAELEV : 14180’

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Gaines Landaverde House Los Angeles, California

A well known contemporary Los Angeles artist asked us to undertake a small addition and “face-lift” of his home in Mount Washington. His primary motivation was enlarging the living space to accommodate his piano. We took this opportunity to also rework the entry sequence and to completely redesign the front of the house. For the front elevation we developed a grid of perforated metal screens at various scales that loosely reference the grids that the artist employs in his own work. These screens diffuse the shape of the original house and at the same time create a register for the life going on inside.

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Gaines Landaverde House Los Angeles, California

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Parker StudioPasadena, California

This small building used as an art studio for a photographer is sited in the backyard of a 1920s Craftsman bungalow. We addressed the building’s Arts & Crafts context through our material choices and expressive construction details. The design is based on a layered wall system, perhaps analogous to a shipping crate, that is “ornamented” with screws in a code prescribed nailing pattern. There design also clearly distinguishes the vertical structural system of the redwood posts, the lateral structural system of the plywood shear panels, and the interior walls used to display art.

Photographer: Peter Tolkin

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Parker StudioPasadena, California

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Wills RetreatLa Cañada Flintridge, California

A couple asked us to remodel portions of their existing home in La Cañada Flintridge and also to add an outdoor spa and water feature behind their house. The steep hillside meant that we had to add a series of concrete retaining walls to enlarge the outdoor space. These walls became the central design feature and were programmed to hold seating niches, lighting, planters, and recreational water features. This small project transformed what was a seldom used back yard into a relaxing outdoor spa and social space.

Photographer: Jennifer Cheung Steven Nilsson Photography

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Wills RetreatLa Cañada Flintridhe, California

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Woodrow Wilson Connector Hollywood, California

A movie director living in a house in the Hollywood Hills asked us to find a way to connect the main house, where he lived, to the guest house, which was occupied by his teenage children. The caveat was that this connector needed to be able to be severed once his children were older or if he decided to sell the house. Conceptually the connector functioned as an umbilical cord between houses. To make sure that the project was collapsible, lightweight, and adaptable to the topography we designed the projects as a kit of parts made up of leveling supports, a lightweight frame, and semi-transparent fabric skin.

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Woodrow Wilson Connector Hollywood, California

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Aluminum Table Various Locations

This aluminum and glass top dining table for eight is supported on five sculpted aluminum leg pieces that are tied together with solid cross-bars and stainless steel fasteners. The water-jet-cut frame pieces are designed to be fully interchangeable and the entire table can be disassembled in minutes using common tools. The glass top rests on rubber pads, stabilized by its own weight. Other aluminum furniture pieces in the series include a round restaurant table, a coffee table, various sizes of side tables, and a writing desk. In the future we plan to add both upright and reclining chairs to the collection.

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Aluminum Table Various Locations

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Three Stools (Samples)Various Locations

These solid paper stools are cast from 100% recycled corrugated cardboard pulp and finished with natural dyes, tung oil and beeswax. The project originated from our interest in re-purposing post-consumer waste. We also studied several precedents: Ray Eames’ walnut stools from 1959, Frank Gehry’s 1972 Wiggle Stool, and traditional African stools. Initially shaped by hand, we used digital processes to derive the final shapes and to produce the water-jet cut aluminum molds to cast the stools. As did its precedents, Three Stools (Samples) can be used as seating, side tables and art objects.

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Three Stools (Samples)Various Locations