Culver City, Los Angeles
Project Team
Architecture: In collaboration with Laney LA, Inc.
Lead Design and Project Manager: Kanoa Chung (Noho Workshop)
Interiors: Client
Landscape: Anton Prack Landscape Design
Builder: Cunningham Construction Inc.
Recognition: 2020 AIA LA Residential Award, Dwell Magazine
Project Brief
A modern home set in a historic California suburb for an outdoors loving urban couple, “The Black Barn” embraces the balance of opposites. The intentional use of contrasting features like its dark exterior skin, large white vaulted living space and floating reading nook are more than just details. Rather they represent, a yin and yang design approach inspired by Japanese traditions like Shou Shugi Ban and Ma—the celebration not of things, but rather the space between them.