Completed 1989

The Koning Eizenberg House is skinny, only seventeen feet wide along most of its length, with many moving parts: oversized exterior sliding glass doors, hinged french doors, secret and surface interior sliding doors, Australian sashless windows, and rolling wood shutters. It strongly reflects Hank's ingenuity and interest in making and operating things and our desire for the house to open up to the outside to accommodate an easy life-style for us, our two children, and our dog. The outside is the big space, and the house the backdrop. As such, the house was designed to be obscured by landscape, offering only glimpses of itself rather than an overall image. As in many of our houses, the organization of the garden and its open space generated the form of the house. Planting is also used to maximize comfort. For example, the arbor, now grown over, shades the southeast-facing glass wall that opens to the garden. This home is 2700 square feet.

Awards
1991 AIA Los Angeles Chapter Merit Award

Publication
The Face of Home, Taunton Press 2006
Architects House Themselves 1994
Casabella, 05/94
LA Architect, 12/91
Metropolitan Home, 12/90
Architecture, 3/90