The Stack House Is a Luxury Home Built into an L.A. Hillside | Open House TV

We join architect David Freeland of the firm FreelandBuck, at one of their newest projects. The home is nestled into the hillside of the Mount Washington neighborhood in Los Angeles. David and his partner Brennan Buck created a unique vertical stacked house that rotates each room. This creates seamless indoor-outdoor spaces on every floor, with multiple balconies and landscaped decks.

Hi. My name is David Freeland, from Freelandbuck. I'm an architect, and I designed this house, Stackhouse. The reason why we call it Stackhouse is because each room of the house gets its own cube. Those cubes stack up on top of each other in a kind of informal and casual way. This is one of the most exciting houses that we've designed, and I'm excited to show you the project. The first thing you notice when you arrive at the house is that it's four stories in height. A design challenge for us was how to make this entry into the house an exciting one.

The first pallet is concrete and moves up through the embedded portion of the site. Why we broke up the two sets of stairs was to add a guest room between the first and second level. As you come up the second flight of stairs, you arrive at a deck area that looks out to the north. Could be a dining patio. It could be a relaxation space. The first thing you notice when you enter the house is that the floor plan is organized into separate rooms. Not a great room where everything's connected.

And you'll notice curved walls. The curves begin to stitch them back together again and make it feel like a unified space. From the kitchen, the curved walls open up visual connections to other areas of the house. You can see through to the dining room. The windows on two sides let in ample California sunlight. It makes this a really rich and enjoyable room to hang out in. So when you're ready to kick back and lounge, you can head on over to the den.

Smaller windows in this room, the lower light levels-- it's cozy. It's warmer. And there's a lot of soft things to hang out on, and it's a different environment than other rooms in the house. The rear patio could be a place to put a barbecue, to have dinner, to enjoy the more natural setting of the Hillside area that surrounds the house. In this outdoor space, we try to use materials that were more natural. But also pops of color. So the hex tile that's on both the patio floor, but also turns up on to the foundation of the house, gives you a kind of enclosed feeling. You're in a room in nature.

The side of the house is a kind of play on board and batten siding made with cement board. We created two alternating patterns to break down the house into smaller parts. So it's not one big single volume but multiple. The kind of boxes that stack one on the next. When you're done enjoying the outdoor space, another half flight of stairs takes you up to the bedrooms in the home. There's three bedrooms at the fourth level.

And now my favorite part of the house, the master suite. You enter the master bedroom through a curved wall. First thing you see are amazing, expansive views out to the mountains. The door out to the balcony allows for the balcony to really feel like it's part of the room. Connects you to the mountains. It feels like you're floating up above the trees.

You look back down on the four levels that you've come up, each one it's own geometric shapes. Each one with its own character and its own relationship to nature. Thank you for joining me at Stackhouse, enjoying all the different levels, views, geometries. Catch you next time.

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