The Ettley home: A glass ark by architect Patrick Killen [PHOTOS]
[scrollGallery id = 408] Photos by Aaron Thomas Killen and Laura Hull The Ettley home in Manhattan Beach’s American Martyr’s neighborhood gracefully juxtaposes solid and transparent volumes under a dramatically cantilevered roof. The home’s façade is comprised of alternating cubes of cool, blue-tinted glass and warm, reddish-brown mahogany. By suspending the cubes out from the structural core, architect and master builder Patrick Killen gave clients Chris and Tara Ettley a home that seems to defy gravity. “It feels like it could float,” says owner Tara Ettley. “Sometimes we call it ‘the ark.’” The home is on a hill a few blocks up from the beach, affording it a panoramic view of the Pacific by way of two open-air decks and massive floor-to-ceiling glass bays on the second and third levels of the three-story home. Chris Ettley, owner of the commercial and residential glass furnisher Lucky’s Glass wanted his home to prominently feature his company’s product. Killen, founder of Manhattan Beach-based architecture firm Studio 9one2, enthusiastically embraced this request. “I wanted to really stretch the limits of utilizing glass on a residential scale…in a way that hadn’t been done…
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