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Levitt Residence

Prize(s) Honorable Mentions
Company RNLD
Lead Designers Ron Neal, Nathan Irick
Completion Date February 2017
Project Location La Jolla, CA
Entry Description

Located atop of Mount Soledad in La Jolla, CA., ultra clean lines, neutral tones and natural finishes define this mid-century inspired modern California home. Meticulously developed architectural lighting details, along with strategically placed light fixtures thoughtfully reinforce dramatic transparent separations at the expansive glass wall systems and seamlessly connect both the interior and exterior spaces throughout the home.

One of the primary goals was to provide a lighting design plan and specifications to be integrated into the architecture of this sprawling modern home while enhancing the relationship between the many indoor and outdoor spaces. Additional objectives included designer a preset automated dimming system providing tailored control and energy code complience. These goals were successfully achieved in part by developing a wide range of architectural lighting details including, wall graze details with narrow optic linear LED fixtures to enhance the polished stone walls extending through glass partitions, providing visual connections and linearity.

The Owner, Architect and Design Team were all engaged from the initial lighting design concepts and development through the completion of the project. Collaboration between the team produced mock-ups of various cove lighting details to ensure concealment of a wide range of LED sources and precise terminations of the exotic finishes at the walls and ceilings. Working closely with the Landscape Architect, we were able to position trees to create dramatically illuminated elements as viewed from the interior, extending ones perception of each space.

Due to the warm range dimmable light sources specified throughout this minimalist inspired home there is still a casual, relaxed and inviting sense to these clean modern spaces. Thoughtful illumination of key walls creating transparency to the outdoors gives one an overwhelming sense of open, airy and healthy livable spaces, perfectly suited for the southern California life style.