The project added a 1,000 square foot extension to the existing 1,000 square foot house.
The renovation was required to reflect the creativity of its inhabitants – a film trailer director, graphic designer and illustrator and their three daughters.
The extension comprises a glass-encased living area at ground level, and enclosed master bedroom on the first floor.
The house was completed in July 2007.
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Alan-Voo Family House
Project Description
The clients for this house renovation / extension, a couple with three daughters, are a creative, democratic unit. The father directs film trailers, the mother is a graphic designer and illustrator, while the high school / middle school / elementary school aged daughters are all immersed in their own versions of their parents’ visual cultures. The family have asked that 1,000 sf be added to the site in addition to the existing 1,000 sf house.
The scheme leaves half of the house for the daughter’s bedrooms and incorporates the other half plus new extensions in front and back into a public zone and a private bedroom for the parents.
This strategy amounts to a new 16 ft wide linear house being inserted into the existing house. Multi-toned, bright colors accentuate the new pieces which suggests a graphic expression representative of the family’s interests.
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Posted by Rose Etherington
January 27th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
is so nice… i INDUCE to see its other architect`s projects
January 28th, 2008 at 2:42 am
this is beatiful… just perfect.
January 28th, 2008 at 3:32 am
So nice….I love it!
January 28th, 2008 at 8:31 am
Absolutely! fantastic!…..Good Work!…
January 28th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Luv this…very zen!
January 28th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
es muy feo, y tiene un aspecto falso
January 28th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Very Zen?!?!?!?!
What the hell?!?
Ughhhhhhhh!!!
This house is horrible.
It looks like a plastic toy.
January 28th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
I love plastic toys, time are gone when we used to play with wooden bullshit…!!!
January 28th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
I am a bit ambivalent. The interiors look really nice, but the exteriors look a bit toylike. If that’s good or bad I do not know..
January 28th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Love the clean, pure look. Bravo!
January 28th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Clean? There´s structural elements everywhere!
January 28th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
nicely detailed
January 28th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Hey Phone,
how bout you try to put ur stuff on this website?
If you can. And we all can criticize on it. See how you
you like it. Non of ur comments are constructive, you piece
negative analysis.
January 29th, 2008 at 10:57 am
The strong silhouette of the external form has no articulation with the internal space. A cake decor eh?
January 29th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Hope to do something like that someday ..
January 29th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Can’t recall the title of his book from the 90s…was it ‘Gyroscopic Horizon’?
This house Look straight out of that catalog!
January 29th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
i’ve looked at it…. looked at it again (don’t judge instantly take your time…. you are soooo quick to judge and have you ever designed a house? Nope) I did some work…… came back,looked again… okay okay, imagine with furniture, family, a dog.. maybe one like k-9 out of Doctor Who…
Nope…. overall I don’t like it… I am not architect and would never pretend otherwise, but it is something about all of those diagonal lines, and an in-balance in the overall design, I particularly do not like the outside. but then I don’t have to live there – So perhaps I should keep schtum!
January 30th, 2008 at 5:10 am
i keep bumping into this house on various sites and blogs. i keep thinking that i should really, really like it, so i keep trying really, really hard to like it…but i don’t.
i’m not usre if it’s the house itself or the way it’s photographed, or the cheesey way it’s always presented with the little back-story. it looks like it’s well put together and a lot of effort has gone it, but it just refuses to grab me.
oh well, as long as the people iving in it love it, we can like or dislike as much as we want.
January 30th, 2008 at 10:23 am
Well, if it was some of my friend’s house – I would frankly say “It’s a nice house”. But as for me I would never ever live in such house.
January 30th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
As a whole I like the design of the addition; however I don’t think the addition/ renovation relates to the existing dwelling in any way. This is most likely why the photos don’t show the existing house.
January 30th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Great to see Neil Denari building some of his fabulous drawings!
Excellent!
January 30th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
the verticle lines spoils it
January 31st, 2008 at 2:10 am
I liked the outside look, it caught my attention. It’s unique ^_^
However, I do not like the “V” structure of the interior… I wouln’t feel comfortable.
January 31st, 2008 at 9:44 pm
I don’t like being banned.
February 1st, 2008 at 2:36 am
its great to see small projects like this. plenty of natural daylight, i enjoy the plasticity of the exterior, sure beats vinly siding. the diffuser panels near the stair do bug me, its too bad they could be lower and aligned.
something about it reminds me of the 60’s. which i neither like or dis-like. wonder if anyone else got that same impression.
February 3rd, 2008 at 7:06 am
a fine example of post-cubistic architecture-picasso in 3-D
February 4th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
That is a great Idea and can be used for manufactured “town units “, too !
February 12th, 2008 at 10:56 am
At first glance, a stunning application of visual design simplicity. Pale in exterior and interior colour, soft and clean in finish. The structure seems as though it should flood with natural light, casting angular shadows and from its quirky windows offering reflections of equal variety.
However look closer and with a keener eye and I feel that there are shades of 1970`s commercialism to the design. What I believe may have had beginnings in a typical, and somewhat un-original attempt at creating ultra modernism, has morphed, perhaps subconsciously, into a retro homage to the 70`s Californian office block.
March 3rd, 2008 at 11:00 am
Looks nice. But it has been done a million times before, not very creative.
March 8th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
Bellissima…spero un giorno sia la mia casa!
March 13th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
It is nice n perfect for my first inspiration, but the looks doesn’t last for long…
March 19th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
Absolutely love the exterior, though I was disappointed with the interior. Particullarly the ground floor, whch didn`t work for me, too narrow and too dark (even with all that glass).
April 4th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
beautiful, this reminds me of the house of Mon Oncle!
May 1st, 2008 at 9:23 am
top ten
May 1st, 2008 at 9:26 am
my dream home
June 12th, 2008 at 4:26 am
it look’s fantastic-peace out
August 28th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
I would appreciate that you let me know the reason of naming this house as Alan-Voo. Is this house belong to a member of Voo’s family?
September 3rd, 2008 at 4:54 am
I was sort of ambivalent of what would happen when Denari’s visions get realized.
The interior looks flimsy.
October 4th, 2008 at 3:57 am
I just had a lecture by Neil Denari himself and he talked about this project.
I feel like the images and rendering looks great but he never talked about the design progress and his ideas behind the house. It seems like it just looks good…
February 25th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
its a super house, hope i can build a home like this in the philippines help!
June 22nd, 2009 at 6:46 pm
If i was to buy this , how much would it be sold for ?