The Surfhouse was designed by XTEN Architecture is Californian house design in Hermosa Beach, California, USA. The Surfhouse’s architectural concept maximizes space, light and views while also creating a sense of privacy and retreat for the owners, a young couple, on a busy beachside street. The Californian residential architecture, Surfhouse sits like an abstract block of weathered wood a few blocks from the Pacific Ocean in Hermosa Beach Property. The site is incredibly small, subtracting for setbacks leaves an allowable building area that is only 23-feet wide x 29-feet deep x 30-feet high.

The facade of Surfhouse by XTEN Architecture is made from rough sawn, black stained cedar planks with volumetric openings at primary program spaces and a system of identical 2? x 5? casement windows arrayed across the secondary elevations for specific views and ventilation.

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