Small Architectures

Hollywood, Los Angeles, 2025
Apartment
Completed

Small Architectures is an interior fit-out of a 1,200-square-foot apartment in Hollywood. Working within the fixed parameters of the base building—structural columns, plumbing lines, and HVAC—a series of discrete objects is inserted to choreograph the space. Derived from elemental fragments such as walls, columns, and surfaces, these interventions read as independent of the apartment container. Neither object, furniture, nor architecture, they occupy an indeterminate scale between categories.

The project plays with scale and scalelessness through varied materials. In the kitchen, a sculptural island clad in graphic marble with oversized clasts obscures a clear reading of its proportion. In the living room, an L-shaped object frames a built-in sofa and an art wall, concealing pocket doors to a guest room. Terracotta tile extends from the balcony indoors, connecting rooms, and the city with the life within. Rather than a single gesture, a multiplicity of objects animates the apartment, enabling evolving occupations.

Design Team

Katy Barkan, Laura Grombone, Jingbo Huang

Photgraphy
Michael Wells