The 4,300 square foot king Residence is located in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Santa Monica. Situated on a gently sloping, wedge-shaped corner lot, the design rejects the standard public front yard and back yard typology, opting instead for a structure whose living spaces and bedrooms open onto a relatively large garden and patio that faces the public streets and surrounding houses. While this arrangement puts much of the familys communal and individual life on display, this is s positive feature for the Kings. The younger Kings delight in calling to their parent enjoy a heightened sense of neighborliness friends and neighbors drop in at all times. The house blurring of public or private boundaries reinforce the sense of community that they embrace and encourage.

This project, which completes the first phase of this new complex, involved the renovation of two run down warehouses into a 20,000 square foot space for Cisco Brothers, the Pinedos’ company, and another 60,000 square feet of leasable tanant space. Equally significant is the transformation of the parking lot between the two warehouses into hybridized motor court and event space that serves as the social center of the project.

This 5,500 square foot single family residence occupies a normative infill lot. It contains a master bedroom suite, three additional bedroom, upper level roof terraces, and a home office that connects to the main living spaces. Materials utilized include plaster and wood on the exterior and terrazo and wood on the interior.