LADG designs residential compound with art studio in Highland Park

The Los Angeles Design Group (The LADG) has completed House in Los Angeles 1, an art studio and residential compound for a pair of professional visual artists, a painter and a photographer. The project contains an addition to the clients' existing mid-century home, a guest house that provides studio space for their work, and dedicated structures for exhibitions and events. "Our project defies and reorganizes some of the architectural tropes associated with LA suburbia," says Claus Benjamin Freyinger, co-founder and co-principal of The LADG in a statement. "It’s not a single house with a unified program, meant to contain a sleeping family at night, who commute off to work and school lives in the morning. It’s a collection of buildings that integrates work, living, and communal activities around the livelihoods of two artists." The structures are connected by a series of freestanding walls. "May’s residential designs are remarkable because of the way walls and interior elements appear...