Santa Monica Essay

Santa Monica is a typical beachfront landscape; it is enclosed by three sides of cities and one seaside in Los Angeles which can also describe as Pacific Palisades to the north and five cities to the northeast, east southeast and south. Therefore, the city suggests sustainable living. Gehry Residence stands in a dense residential area. This significant environment establishes a standard dwelling for Gehry’s family lived in Gehry Residence.

Located in the northeast of Santa Monica, Gehry Residence, is a unique architecture which contravenes the local house’s style. The house is in the corner of two streets which go through south- north and east- west, meanwhile, it became the representation of deconstructivism and balanced American Populism into European mainstream.
Sited in the surrounded trees, Gehry Residence is an open-ended composition which has a complete privacy from every angle in the streets because of the corrugated steel enclosed above the eyes level except for the garden wall
At first, Frank and Berta Gehry bought a small pink house in 1920, the house must be remodelled in the limited budget. Therefore, the first remodel was used the normal materials such as corrugated metal, chain link and raw wood frame which aimed to show both old and new elements. Moreover, Gerry reshape the wood structures and made it free from its original, whereas the old house still remained visible in it. It has stripped down the plaster coating to reveal the framing, the joists and studs are uncovering in some places. Above the north-facing kitchen, a dipped glass cube built between the outside of the new and the old, internally, the window was made by wry cube in the dining room. Gehry uses passage that circulate through space. The kitchen, living room, two bedrooms, a bathroom and backyard are on the ground floor. The master bedroom, a second bedroom, a dressing room, a bathroom and a terrace are on the first