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The Last House on Mulholland (LHOM) competition brief is rewritten for a historic architecture client and a modern day crisis.

​Aline Barnsdall was the real mother of modern architecture in California, having hired Frank Lloyd Wright, Rudolph Schindler, and Richard Neutra to work on her avant-garde colony. She was also a water conservation pioneer. Her Hollyhock House incorporated an underground plumbing system which recycled via the central courtyard. Aline’s spirit is reborn in the Last H2O on Mulholland (LH2OM) project. The LH2OM project proposes a residential complex which is a system for dwellings coexisting with water conservation in drought stricken California. 



Each dwelling’s height is in flux per the annual seasonal rainfall in the City of Los Angeles as the cistern systems fill and empty.

Location: Los Angeles, CA.
T. Joseph Surjan - design scientist & writer

S. Hjelte Fumanelli - project architect & digital modeling

Chicago Underground Practice is a team of design scientists.


Hours

M-F: 24-7

Telephone

312-543-7783

Email

tsurjan@gmail.com
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    • DOODADS_DISTRICTS
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    • CANOPY_CITY
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    • TIGERMAN'S_ARK
    • SOS_TIGERMAN
    • Paris_Wheat
    • Timepiece
    • Notre Dame de Paris
    • Unbuilt Utzon
    • JUST
    • Boxing Mies
  • 2018
    • Drawing Precedents
    • Extruded Village
    • City of the Morfar
    • OBJECTIVE
    • Building Curriculum Curriculum Building
    • La Città del Nonno
    • SW/TCH
    • Manhattan Giants
    • Luca's Box
    • Big, Soft & Orange
  • 2017
    • Jane's Edge
    • Last H20 on Mulholland
    • SUPPORT
    • Fresh Meat IX
    • House of Morfar
    • Broadway Billboard
    • The Propaganda of Desire
    • Posters for Change
    • Under the Dome
    • The Unsolicited Sideshow
  • 2016
    • Black Holes of Architecture
    • Snell's Window
    • Bipolar City
    • Moneta's Museum
    • SPAN City
    • Stream of Glass
    • PoPA: Pavilion of POP Art
    • SLoB
    • Woman's Work
    • Love Child
    • SLoB 2.0
    • TEMPLE of アッコロカムイ
  • 2015
    • Crimes of Architecture
    • 44 Vaults
    • Authenticity
    • It was a Very Good Year
    • Imagination takes Power
    • State of the Art of Architecture
    • A Dinosaur, a Colossus and a Giant
  • 2014
    • CAAD: Curtains Photo Competition
    • Face On Publication
    • Designing for Free Speech
    • Lucas Museum of Narrative Art
    • Hello Nature
  • 2013
    • Triangle Fire Memorial
    • CAAD: Curtains UT Competition
    • Change the Face
    • Reimagine the Astrodome
    • Fairy Tales I
  • 2012
    • its Liquid
    • Future Prentice
    • The Monumental Competition
    • Arch Triumph