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Anthony Coscia designs Skywave House in California as ‘floating’ house

Published: 30-Sep-2010

California-based architect Anthony Coscia has designed Skywave House in Venice, California, as a wing-like floating house inspired by several Asian art forms and Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake's laser-cut garments.

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Anthony Coscia of Coscia Day Architecture + Design has designed Skywave House as a hovering sculptural form emerging from a single articulated plane that warps to produce unique interior spaces over a tall-glassed in first level.

The architectonic form of the house is primarily based on the design language of the ‘Fold’ that Coscia Day has been developing for the past 15 years. The design is also influenced by several Asian art forms including ‘Sumei’ - one ink brush stoke to write a word, and ‘Origami’ - traditional Japanese folk art of paper folding. Other traditional Japanese architectural concepts have been incorporated including the idea of Shoji screen sliding panels as doors or walls to break a larger space and a raised floor plane elevated above the earth as well as the Korean concept of a raised heated floor. The Chinese philosophical approach of Yin Yang is also layered into the design aesthetic. Yin (black) is melded with its other half Yang (white) to create a whole.

Anthony Coscia was also partly inspired by an exhibition of Issey Miyake’s A-POC garments made from a single, laser-cut piece of cloth. Skywave House is a 2,250 square feet home that feels more like 3,500 square feet. This increased sense of space is accomplished with large glass walls, an enclosed outdoor living room and the multi-level open plan. A true indoor/outdoor idea of living is achieved in this light filled space.

The floating living room and bedroom suite soar over transparent 12ft-high glass walls with full height sliding doors. A 29ft-tall sky-lit entry offers short and long views of nature and sky. The interior of the house is designed as a continuous open space, which provides uninterrupted views through the house to the landscape. Sliding doors and moveable interior partitions are installed to reveal private areas to the rest of the house and nature beyond. A glass room is featured, which is filled with organically shaped architectural elements.

Conceived as a reverse-greenhouse for the mild climate of southern California, the home is designed as a sustainable, sun-drenched airy space for people to enjoy, while viewing the exterior foliage. The steel is cut away to pull light into the centre of the house and to vent hot air in summer. The standing-seam roof and upper wall cladding are painted white to diffuse the sun, while scoop skylights and motorised windows on the west side draw in ocean breezes. Concrete floors absorb the winter sun and incorporate radiant heating that can be powered from solar panels. The kitchen-dining space floats over a raised thermal base filled with the excavated dirt of the concrete grade beams, which cools the house in summer.

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