tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85670589729673190562024-03-21T15:33:53.780-07:00our house on the hillitsjustahousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05836541293869117537noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8567058972967319056.post-90587404407170993372012-02-12T10:15:00.003-08:002012-02-26T07:49:36.347-08:00Almost finish photos...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Our existing Living Room was alleviated of needing to function as four different rooms...now we can sit here to talk, listen to music, play music or just read.</div><br />
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The existing Dining Room has a new opening that opens on to the addition. The view from the door is centered on a column that is at the new center of the house. The new ceilings fold onto the column from different heights.<br />
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Openings between the existing rooms and the addition flow together to form a cohesiveness that overcomes the stylistic differences. The existing house will be 100 years old in 2013 - though we didn't want the addition to look like it was a part of the original construction we also didn't want it to look starkly contrasting. <br />
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The addition was designed with modern California ideas of light and space, inside and outside, minimalist details and an open floor plan. <br />
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The Breakfast Area/Kitchen extension is the knuckle between the old and new house. The wall in this area completely tracks open to a second story deck.<br />
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Here is a similar view with the accordian door closed. A single column is the only vertical element in the new portion of the house. It marks the new center of the house between the Breakfast Area and the Family Room as well as the new geometric center of the house.<br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="text-align: center;">The only wall between the breakfast area </span><span style="text-align: center;">and the Family Room is a skinny cabinet aligned to the width of </span><span style="text-align: center;">the stair down that leads between the two. The extra wood from the Family Room floor wraps up the side and top of the cabinet.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iPsLlqjDs-c/Tzf3ZCktG8I/AAAAAAAAAu4/jSfM5jF7u3M/s1600/familyRoom_01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iPsLlqjDs-c/Tzf3ZCktG8I/AAAAAAAAAu4/jSfM5jF7u3M/s400/familyRoom_01.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The Kitchen is anything but minimal. It is active off and on throughout the day with people but alive in it's own right, filled with color and the remnants of smells and clutter. Drawings and recipes are posted on the refrigerator, growlers sit on the counter waiting to be filled. The Kitchen cabinets are steel lab cabinets from a nearby manufacturer painted with two different custom colors. The upper cabinets hold all of the cups, bowls and dishes - they are made of Europly which is a marine grade plywood able to take the abuse of a kitchen. They are open from the front and hang over the Breakfast Area for ease of setting the table and putting dishes away from the dish washer.</span></td></tr>
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The Master Bedroom has birch plywood walls and floor. Because the room is nestled into the hill and surrounded by trees we took advantage of the natural privacy of the surroundings and designed in floor to ceiling windows.<br />
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Using a butt glazed window at the corner and having the column outside the frame of the room makes the envelope of the room seem to disappear.<br />
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Our initial concept of building a modest "tree house" inspired the plywood finishes in our bedroom. We chose birch because it is highly figured and playful. Unlike the douglas fir plywood in the Living Room ceiling each sheet of birch has a different pattern. Putting them all together in the room was a design challenge but fun at the same time.<br />
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We haven't had time to finish the grading and landscaping yet but the eventually the idea is that the outdoor spaces flow similarly to the indoor spaces. The addition steps down with the hill so that it does not become too excessively tall on the down slope side like hillside houses can tend towards. <br />
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There is nowhere that the tree house concept is more successful than looking back at the addition from the front yard. The reading nook in the Family room sticks out just two feet past the Master Bedroom below but because the corner of the bedroom is butt glazed it becomes transparent. A sizeable volume from the inside the Family Room seems modest in scale from out here and hides among the trees.<br />
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The upstairs and downstairs decks serve as the transition between the old house and the new addition - mediating the stylistic differences.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The addition was sited as tightly as possibly between two major trees. The South side of the house abuts a 50' tall camphor tree that provides shade and passive cooling. The South side of the house also has few windows to help with heat gain. We designed in a bookcase in the Family Room and the Master Bathroom and Kids bathroom on the South side to take advantage of the window-free wall space.</span></td></tr>
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">The kids bathroom has a playful bright blue penny tile on the floor that continues into the shower area. The shower and back splash of the sink are clad in a long skinny white tile which keeps the bathroom bright and clean. The utility sink, locker cabinets and mirror are from Ikea. A clerestory window runs from wall to wall bringing in diffuse light because of the shade from the Camphor tree. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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The window in the Master Bathroom runs floor to ceiling but is glazed with obscured reeded glass to just over 6'-0". The window is centered on the trunk of the Camphor tree.<br />
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The colors in the Master Bathroom are more muted - the floor has a brown-black tile and three sides of the shower are clad in a long skinny grey tile. Slot windows bring light to the back wall which is covered in an iridescent blue glass tile with a hexagonal pattern. The back wall changes color throughout the day as the sun hits it from different angles.<br />
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<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The siding has been going up for the past two weeks when it hasn't been raining...where the old house meets the new house we matched the type of siding and will paint it the same color as the old house (Dragon's Breath)....eventually...someday...but for now we primed it which is why it's white...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-PmFWMvU3mlQ/TXHdPZtefzI/AAAAAAAAApY/L79q0OpE9vY/s1600/siding_goingup.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-PmFWMvU3mlQ/TXHdPZtefzI/AAAAAAAAApY/L79q0OpE9vY/s320/siding_goingup.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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Guillermo is installing the wood finish work...he helped us build our addition is Silverlake and we have kept in touch...he is a perfectionist!<br />
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Friday we passed our rough framing inspection...<br />
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Framing is complete, windows are in, roof is on - mechanical, electrical and plumbing contractors also passed their rough inspections....now we have permission to "wrap" the building...Tuesday we start applying building paper to the outside to get weather protected....<br />
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Master Bedroom - the wood flooring came last week and is sitting in the rooms where it will be installed. It needs to acclimate for about three weeks prior to installation.<br />
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The doors and windows are weatherproofed and airtight so even if it rains now we should be safe from getting soaked inside anymore.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The beams for the second story headers are long and have a big cross-section - getting them from the ground to the second floor is tricky and takes a lot of guys. This is one of the heaviest beams - it is a 6x14 header for a large accordian folding door that is 9'-0" wide by 7'-0" high.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The first beams to go up span across the ceiling of the Master Bedroom. They are very large 6x12 beams because they have to not only span the Bedroom but also past it by 2' picking up a portion of cantilevered space in the Family Room above. A cantilever is any span that is unsupported at it's end point. 2' May not seem like a big cantilever but there is also a window below so the last column lending support to that beam is about 7' in from the corner of the room above.<br />
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This week the crew layed out the first floor and framed most of the walls.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Chillo lays out the floor plan by measuring and marking the layout on the plywood and snapping lines with colored chalk. The crew then attaches the sill plate and top plate of the walls to the plywood and transfers the layout to the plates.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The first piece of framing to go on is called a sole plate - it is pressure treated lumber that has been designed to be placed against the concrete which will always have a little moisture in it and could rot untreated wood. Here Chillo pre-drills holes into the plate that match the bolts that were cast into the concrete.</span></td></tr>
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cripple wall that extends from the new floor height to<br />
the existing floor height - there is a 2' difference. <br />
He is also using a jack to lift the house a<br />
little in spots where it has settled.<br />
He can only jack it up a bit or else the windows which have<br />
settled with the walls over the years will pop and break.<br />
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Here is a view of one of the walls with both sides of formwork on before they placed the anchor bolts on top.</span></td></tr>
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</div><div>Today they have to let the concrete set - tomorrow they will start taking off the formwork so that it doesn't stick to the concrete. By Monday the concrete will be strong enough so that they can start back filling the trenches with the large pile of bedrock that was excavated for the footings. They have to put the bedrock back in small increments and tamp it down with a machine that vibrates and compacts it. By code the final compaction needs to be 95% or more meaning that it is very dense and will add support to the vertical stem walls. The rest of the soil that was considered fill will need to be exported from the site and thrown away.</div><div><br />
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</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">As the Architect we have dictated the layout of the walls based on where we want them relative to the floor above. In some places we wanted to minimize the apparent height of the wall so we held the foundation wall in from the footprint of the building above. In those places the building will cantilever a couple of feet and create a visual break and a shadow. <br />
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We also have several openings in the wall that were dimensioned on the Architectural Exterior Elevations. Some of the openings are for ventilating the crawl space below the house and are required by our local building code. We had to calculate the square footage of crawl space and provide ventilation based on a percentage of the area below the house. Other openings are for access and for equipment.<br />
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The photo on the left is of the rebar layout at the West wall. <br />
The photo on the right is a detail of the opening. They will attach wood block outs to the formwork so that concrete does not get into this area.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">After verifying that we had all the necessary reports (Soils Engineer certificate for excavations, Deputy Inspector approval of epoxy into existing footings and Structural Engineer Observation Report) the City Inspector performs his own review of the steel placement. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There is always a little variation from what is drawn exactly on the plans due to the site conditions. In our case the inspector has asked for two corrections. The crew made the corrections and the inspector will come back tomorrow morning. If the inspector gets to the site before 11 am and approves the adjustments we can pour the concrete at 1 pm. Otherwise...the concrete pour gets moved to Monday!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">They tie the rebar together with steel wire to hold it in place while the concrete is being poured in</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The cages which are sitting inside the footings and are held off the ground by little concrete blocks - this allows the concrete to surround the bars on all sides</span></td></tr>
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The new footings also need to be connected with the existing footings - to achieve this they drilled into the existing footings and used a very very strong glue called Epoxy to attach the rebar into the existing footing. This rebar will get connected to the rebar from the new footings so that they all act together in case the house settles or in case of an <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">earthquake.</span></i>itsjustahousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05836541293869117537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8567058972967319056.post-37120328889201545892010-10-11T09:52:00.000-07:002010-10-15T08:08:15.379-07:00The Excavations Inspection<div style="text-align: center;">Today we had our first inspection. The soils engineer came out to evaluate the excavations. He made a sketch of them in plan and then went around the entire site with the contractor and the foreman and surveyed each one for depth from the top of natural grade to the bottom of the footing and also from top of bedrock to the bottom of footing. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div><div style="text-align: center;">Now that we have approval on the excavations we can proceed with laying the steel in. The crew has already started forming the cages that will be set at the bottom of the excavations. These are for the footings and will be the first concrete pour. If they get all the bar in place today and tomorrow and we pass the steel inspection on Wednesday we could pour concrete as early as Thursday.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div></div>itsjustahousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05836541293869117537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8567058972967319056.post-80949641572321829662010-10-08T15:46:00.000-07:002010-10-08T15:54:48.201-07:00Taking out the last of the footings<div style="text-align: center;">Today they are taking out the last of the footing and digging the final trench </div><div style="text-align: center;">where the old footing used to be. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Dumping the demolished footings in the back via the raised ramps...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div></div></div>itsjustahousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05836541293869117537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8567058972967319056.post-16592442873244232632010-10-07T17:11:00.000-07:002010-10-07T17:19:43.534-07:00Taking out the Footings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">Today they added two additional crossbeams for the shoring and started taking out the footing and excavating for the new and improved footing. It will take a couple of days because the bedrock happens to be very hard and close to the surface at this location - but this is also good news for us. Monday morning the Soils Engineer will come and inspect the excavations and if they sign off on everything the crew will begin laying out the steel.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">new cross beam and crew excavating</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Because the trenches are so deep they </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">the demolished footing and excavated </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">earth out of the way...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">here he's dumping a load of<br />
soil onto the pile...</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">They were adding extra supports to it<br />
even as they were using it!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">...going back for more...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">...excavating under the supports...</span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">To make sure the trenches don't cave in or fill up with</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Samples have been coming in from salvaged wood mills in Oregon and Kansas. Today I visited a local company that buys wood from out of state and re-mills it right here in Los Angeles. We're not sure which species to go with yet but the cost of the salvaged wood is comparable to newly milled wood and has the bonus of being harder, denser and of course, re-used. The older wood was cut down long ago from more mature trees than what we use today so they're grain is tighter and the woods are denser. Below are some samples of the woods we are looking at- they have been torn out of old barns and buildings and re-milled into Tongue and Groove flooring. </span><br />
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</tbody></table>itsjustahousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05836541293869117537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8567058972967319056.post-62925669033193093152010-10-01T16:33:00.000-07:002010-10-01T16:34:42.903-07:00Day five...getting ready for inspectionToday they trenched two short footings that lead from the addition to the existing house - at this location the bedrock is pretty much at the surface of the natural grade so they are not nearly as deep. In order to make all the footings relate to each other structurally they need to step and the rebar cages will extend between them so that they can act in unison if there is any lateral movement - which there is a lot of here in Los Angeles (i.e. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><i>earthquakes</i></span></span>).<br />
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Here are some photos of the footings stepping...<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;">where the footing steps at the corner we will need a new sketch from the</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;">structural engineer because it deviates from the plans. The step was </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;">required based on the crew following the rule to be 2 feet into bedrock.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is what it looked like this morning:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">movie of excavation:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Tuesday we will call for our first inspection and we are all hoping it goes well because that will determine the pace of the project.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The rebar is waiting on site and if we pass they can start installing it during the second half of next week and then start pouring concrete the following Monday. Otherwise....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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