GLORIETTE-R1
Gloriette-R1, Last House on Mulholland, Los Angeles, California, 2023
Team: Office Kovacs
Project Description:
Gloriette-R1 is a folly at the Last House on Mulholland, beside the Hollywood Sign and Griffith Park. Visible from the adjacent public trail, it evokes an unfolding house through a sequence of familiar roof profiles, triangular and circular apertures, and a rectangular threshold.
Reclaimed 4 × 6-inch posts determined the structure’s columns. Reclaimed corrugated metal forms the folded exterior, refinished with lowrider car paint in a synthetic green. The familiar image of a house becomes a thin, brightly colored public facade in the landscape.
Model at the site.
Installation, 2023.
Opening photograph: Phil Donohue.
Additional images courtesy of Office Kovacs.