Venice House Beach by Tribe Studio Architects
Designed by Tribe Studio Architects, Venice Beach House brings the leafy sub-tropics of the Californian environment within the walls of the residence, seamlessly merging interior and exterior, with a touch of Australian aesthetics.
Words: Georgie Ward | Photography: Sam Frost
Venice Beach House is founded on the creation of a series of spaces that capture the global spirit of its owner. Photo: Sam Frost
Drawing from its surrounding environment, Tribe Studio Architects’ design of Venice Beach House fuses nature with modern abstraction, creating a contrasted home with emphasis on sustainability, nature and sunlight.
The four bedroom house was designed as a haven for Jodie Fried and her family, co-founder of the Australian-designed rug company, Armadillo. Splitting her time between her Los Angeles home-away-from-home and Sydney property, she brings elements of her Australian lifestyle to her temporary American location.
The home’s exterior consists of charred black timber board cladding, serving as a dark, shadowy backdrop to emphasise the contrasting colors of the green gardens, Californian cacti, pool, and its statement fig tree that surrounds the property.
The outdoor living area celebrates sun, landscape, swimming and entertainment, a place for play for Jodie’s family of five.
Venice Beach is known for its dense vegetation and landscape, drawing that narrative into the design and integrating living elements became a necessary expression of context. Photo: Sam Frost
Expressed through an openness between inside and out, the home invites a conversation with the surrounding landscape. Photo: Sam Frost
Venice Beach House as an open and embracing home that is also a place of reclusive calm and retreat, beautifully capturing the spirit of place and heritage. Photo: Sam Frost
“Tribe’s design took its cues from the surrounding landscape with a mature fig tree grounding the arrangement of the site whilst also providing shade, outlook and place to local birds and wildlife.”
Tribe Studio Architects’ design took its cues from the surrounding landscape. Photo: Sam Frost
Simple elements reign supreme in the bedroom space. Photo: Sam Frost
The interior space saturates in natural sunlight, its skylights and breezy openings to the outdoors creates a seamless interweaving of sanctuary space and laid-back home living. Each room invites calmness and relaxation, its refreshing white walls, spacious feel and warm wooden accents creates a space to retreat and unwind.
Embracing a textural and tactile palette, the home’s outdoors is sprinkled with stepping stones, timber decks, and vast stone floors, as well as grassy hide-aways in the corners of the property.
The single-story bungalow design embraces simplicity and sustainability, with an open plan layout, connecting the sitting, dining, kitchen and guest accommodation, encouraging movement and flow.
While each space is open and interconnecting, the architects of Tribe Studio Architects also designed for privacy and seclusion, with the master bedroom enjoying its own elevated private garden and overlook of the pool.
A textural and tactile palette reinforces the connection to nature both inside and out. Photo: Sam Frost
The four-bedroom home for its family of five incorporates multiple outdoor opportunities for play both inside and out. Photo: Sam Frost
One of the children's bedrooms in the four bedroom home. Photo: Sam Frost
A textural and tactile palette reinforces the connection to nature both inside and out. Photo: Sam Frost
“The house is designed to facilitate lots of indoor and outdoor play, whilst allowing the parents to decompress from their creative and visually stimulating worlds.”
The home sits comfortably in relation to its neighbours, responding delicately to the established surrounds. Photo: Sam Frost
The dramatic yet simple entryway. Photo: Sam Frost