Hollyhock House Flat Roof

The aline barnsdall hollyhock house in the east hollywood neighborhood of los angeles california was designed by frank lloyd wright originally as a residence for oil heiress aline barnsdall built 1919 1921.

Hollyhock house flat roof. The building is now the centerpiece of the city s barnsdall art park in july 2019 along with seven other buildings designed by wright in the 20th century it was added to the unesco. We discovered that the level of the flat roof had been changed. Peaked roofs carry away snow rain and. Soon everyone will be able to walk inside and.

The lengthy restoration of barnsdall art park s hollyhock house the first house in los angeles designed by frank lloyd wright is coming to an end. Not only that tree junk collects on flat roofs and has to be brought down by hand. These were the stylistic symbols of the house s namesake flower. Stylized hollyhocks barnsdall s favorite flower appear on roof finials furniture art glass windows and the ornamental bands of cast concrete on the structure s exterior.

You need to enable javascript to run this app. Above this section of wall at heights varying from 6 6 to 8 0 above the water table is a plain cast concrete belt course that forms the base for the cast concrete frieze bearing an abstracted hollyhock motif. With seventeen rooms and seven bathrooms the massive residence was ultimately not what barnsdall wanted. Previous seismic activity had knocked over a hollyhock stela at three of these locations.

Continue to 5 of 5 below. Rain can easily back up on a flat roof. On a flat roof is double trouble. Above the frieze the wall cants inward at approximately ten degrees extending above the plane of the flat roof to become a parapet.

Residence b hollyhock house post by juankbedoya wed mar 25 2020 4 20 am hi guys while residence a is currently on restoration and we re staying home due to covid i have some topics in mind. Arrayed around the roof area of the house were several locations where freestanding hollyhock units were located. Oil heiress theater producer single mother and social activist aline barnsdall commissioned the house and it was originally intended to be part of an avant garde arts and theater complex known as olive hill now known as barnsdall art park.