Malibu House no.3

This home was designed as a place of return, and of continuation.

For generations, its residents have lived along this stretch of Malibu shoreline. Stories accumulated here over decades: daily routines shaped by tide and light, gatherings layered one upon another, a life lived close to the ocean since the 1960s. On the day the fires arrived, the eldest member of the family marked her ninetieth birthday.

The rebuilding was not about replacing what was lost. It was about carrying something forward.

Malibu, California
Private Residence

The architecture responds with restraint. From the road, the house presents a quiet, protective face, respectful of memory and privacy. Toward the beach, it opens gradually, revealing layered terraces and living spaces oriented toward horizon and light. The building settles into the slope, following the land rather than resisting it.

The form is composed of simple volumes, stepped and stacked to create a sequence of outdoor rooms. These thresholds allow the interior to extend outward while maintaining a sense of shelter. Inside and outside meet slowly here, through proportion, shade, and repetition rather than gesture.

Light moves gently through the house. Large openings frame the Pacific, while deeper recesses create places of calm. Throughout the day, the architecture registers time quietly, allowing daily life to unfold without interruption.

Designed to support multiple generations and ways of living, the home accommodates both family life and the rhythms of a working household. It is resilient by necessity, grounded in the realities of coastal living, and shaped to endure.

This is a house informed by past stories and imagined for new ones. A place where memory is not preserved as an artifact, but allowed to evolve. Architecture here does not attempt to hold time still. It creates the conditions for life to continue.