The house that Fleetwood Fernandez Architects designed for contractor Mehran Taslimi and his wife, Laila, embraces its surroundings. “They wanted doors that they could just throw open,” designer Hunter Fleetwood says of the retractable wall system from Vitrocsa.
“We didn’t want panel-formed, smooth-like-glass concrete; we wanted texture,” Fleetwood says. A cast-resin piece by DeWain Valentine sits at the foot of the sculpted walnut stairs.
The house was designed as a long, linear structure to accommodate the residents’ request that visitors always feel connected to the site as a whole.
With the home’s glass walls pulled open, the patio and fire pit become an extension of the dining room.