Comment: Searching feverishly trying to avoid posting plans that are fast, and there’s plenty of them. Anyway I came across this site and there is some interesting designs and information available on small lot subdivisions in the LA area. In the mean time I’ll keep looking.
Comment: Vista Dunes is the largest multi-family affordable housing project in the country to achieve “Platinum” level of LEED certification. Located in La Quinta CA it is 2 hours from Los Angeles.
Comment: I know these houses have not been built, but still thought it was interesting to do the test, to see if these plans/ new homes are worth buying.
Because there is no location / designated land development, i didn’t give it the points, although i did for orientation, considering they would address it.
Comment: SW facing rear yard + master, dining and living will be hot from late day direct sun. Courtyard is a nice space, but due to access will be a seldom used space. My distaste for the chamfered wall in the powder room (mirrored on the right side of the entry for symmetry) was not enough for the bathroom point to be lost. The dining room is clearly a trophy space, due to its scale and relation to the front door – double columns and chamfered niches for sculpture!
Comment: Wasn’t sure about what people would think about the parking. I gave it a yes – although it is not a typical layout, I liked the way it reduced the amount of driveway (you have to see the site plan to see how the adjacent lot helps make it work). The patio is very nice.
Comment: Walkscore: 17/100
This one really maximizes the number of bedrooms (up to 4 in 1,731 sq ft) but trades it off with poor organization and circulation (cutting through the centre of the main floor).
Project Name: Woodbury at College Park, Residence 2
Size: 1,731 sq ft
Project Address: 14545 Purdue Ave, Chino, CA 91710
Comment: I selected a plan that was generously located on a well-oriented site. The parking situation is ridiculous – 3 car in a 2157 sq ft 3 Br house. I really don’t like the hallway on the upper level either.
Project Name: Mariposa @ San Joaquin Hills — Residence 1
Comment: These units won numerous awards project of the year awards for sustainable residential development. In consideration of location, it is important to recognize in detached residential development BOTH community and privacy aspects. This development achieves a walk score of 88 while affording each resident private space through unique site planning and building design.
Comment: walkscore 46/100 BUT I chose yes because the house is a 16 min walk (checked with google map directions) from Rosa Parks Train Station, and because it is in a neighborhood that is going through revitalization (Compton, South LA). Unfortunately, the big 3 points a good location gets you lead nowhere since this is not a well designed unit at all really.
Project Name: Mozaic — Plan A
Size: 1849 sq ft
Project Address: 2108-2244 Santa Ana Blvd, Los Angeles
Comment: As an aside to my Yanonali Court posting above, B3 Architects founded by Barry Berkus has built an interesting home in front of Case Study House #9 in the Pacific Palisades. This complex is for sale at 14 million USD. Here is a link for the curious – http://www.dailyicon.net/2009/01/eames-and-saarinens-case-study-house-9-is-for-sale/
The famous Eames house is adjacent to this property.
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Comment: Sorry the previous anonymous post was from me.
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Comment: Circulation unnecessarily lengthy from entry to kitchen – as well, back entry and front entry are immediately adjacent but thoroughly separated (for no functional reason). I assumed the outdoor living space is a large back yard (given by site plan). Otherwise, the overall proportion of the house and the organization of the shared and private spaces was pretty good.
Comment: Duplicated living rooms (one’s called “Family”) even though they are immediately next to eachother. Weird walking path from entry to kitchen or from stairs to Bedroom 3. Walk in closets for ALL! HUGE laundry. Dining table in the way if you want to go outside. Optional deck with french doors wouldn’t fit furniture because doors swing.
Project Name: Laurel Park, Plan 3C
Size: 2,306 sq ft
Project Address: 17448 Winter Pine Way, Canyon Country, CA
- numerous corridors/hallways because of internal courtyard
- corner fireplace in family room makes for a challenging furniture layout
- multiple points of access to the exterior, including front porch from bedroom 3, interior courtyard, access from the breakfast nook and and master bedroom
- dining room is a good size, however if the optional french doors are installed, the space actually becomes a large circulation space and funiture placement becomes a huge challenge
Comment: Bedroom 2 and 4 are not so good. Bed 2 has a sideyad window only. Bed 4 has a miniature closet, and it seems can’t fit a bed bigger than a single or double pushed against the wall (or window depending). Oh, and Bed 3 has a bad angled closet…
Comment: The Master Suite is oh so Baroque. Kitchen looks good. Useless living room at the front in the bay window that faces West (just try reading in there without the a/c on in the afternoon/evening). Nook blocks the only access to the outdoor space. ‘Covered patio’ is basically a sunshade with standing room. Wasted space in bed 2, oversized master with wasted space. You would need a giant sized tv and stand to fit into the niche made between the window and the fireplace to get the point (I assumed that having a house of this kind today means just that). Light would be pretty good into the house, especially since major spaces face east. Dining room is in a weird spot by the stair storage and has only a sideyard view (I guess so that your neighbors can see how many friends you have over for dinner – and are salivating over the lobster you’re eating).
Comment: Walkscore: 32/100
Buried dining room, beds 2-4 have crummy locations, chamfer on bed 4? Unless you like your mailman, no privacy for bed 4 window. Overall proportion is too square. Front entry is decent but is a strange shape, and back entry is too small because of laundry. Perhaps the bench or closet or whatever inside, past the laundry could suffice, but does this mean you walk with your boots on through the laundry room? Rotated kitchen island is laughable. Optional cabinets are too (how big is YOUR kitchen???) Gave study point because there is none, unless you don’t need 5 bedrooms, then you could pick one to be the study – I’d choose bed 4 because of the window location.
Project Name: GoldenFields At StoneRidge Ranch — Buttercup (Plan 2)
Size: 2145 sq ft
Project Address: 27146 Oak Ridge Dr, Moreno Valley, CA
Comment: 15 walk score; orientation unknown; I am assuming there is a backyard for outdoor living; not much counter space in kitchen; not too bad otherwise! For me, there is some wasted space in the great room and master bedroom, and I would have liked an island in the kitchen (if it were a bit wider).
Project Name: Agave Trail – Plan 1
Size: 1709
Project Address: Avenue S Street & Sierra Hwy Palmdale, CA
Comment: 12 walk score; orientation unknown; I am assuming there is a backyard; light in rooms depends on where the actual house would be built; one of the bedrooms could be a study… I think I was too nice with this one, but I can’t find anything that really bothers me enough to give it a zero! Ir actually reminds me a bit of the house on the video this morning, but without the weird angled fireplace.
Project Name: Mountain View Ranch
Size: 2277
Project Address: Mountain View Ranch Dr. & Chalone Dr. Palmdale, CA
Comment: 5 walk score; orientation unknown; master bedroom only has 1 window; other bedrooms are quite small; wasted space & awkward doors in master bath – the entry is my least favorite part.
Comment: Walkscore 46 /100 – Although it’s close to a Von’s grocery store, it is cut off from Yucaipa City (?) Center by a gulley. Even still, you’d most likely drive to Von’s since this is a golf-oriented, luxury development where all can afford to drive and do. I don’t understand why the upper floor has to have the chamfer – probably designed to save space, but it in fact creates wasted space. Master bath has bad counters, too much floor area. Family room clearly designed for multiple lazyboys and a sectional – and maybe a rocking chair. Living room would be a room for show, as you’d never be in there to mess it up. Den is odd placed right at the front door with those french doors to it. Laundry is ruined by rear entry from large garage.
Project Name: Crofton @ Chapman Heights, Residence 1
Comment: Walkscore 48 /100 But no since Lancaster, CA is basically a residential community only. The only nearby work might be at a small shop or at Palmdale USAF Plant 42.
Project Name: Sandalwood 2 — Sandalwood 2
Size: 1650 sq ft
Project Address: 2214 E Cypress St, Lancaster, CA, 93535
Comment: There was no top floor with this plan but I decided to do it anyway because I hate the fact that I hang up my coat in the the bathroom. Why would you position a bathroom where everyone will think it is a closet. I like the idea of a bathroom near a door which opens onto a backyard but not at the front door.
Project Name: Cobblestone
Size: 1618sqft
Project Address: 1983 Annadale Way Pomona, CA 91767
Comment: Cannot help but look out to that planned community I recall from ages ago- Irvine. Looks like they are full steam ahead on building on the newer sections of the village.
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GOOD. This plan has a dedicated office. Nice front entry with a closet and space to move. The kitchen has a nice triangle NOT interrupted with an island or peninsula.. and this island can hold at least 4 stools! Notice the window is WIDER than the sink – trying to let more light into the space.
BAD- the hallway upstairs is long. the master bath is obnoxious in size. meanwhile the master walk in closet looks to TOO tight. Bedrooms are too large (we could fit another bedroom up there).
Project Name: Woodbury East- Santa Cruz- Village of Irvine
Comment: Walkscore is 71/100.
Successfully minimizes the number of primary rooms with sideyard windows (there are none), overall proportions are pretty good but the wall in the kitchen, which I guess is placed to give more definition to the entry space and to hide the view into the kitchen from the entry, makes the circulation route to get into the kitchen such that it undermines the dining area. If you pushed the table over toward the living/family room there wouldn’t be enough room left over to arrange a sofa (notwithstanding that corner fireplace!) The inswinging door to the yard further hampers the dining area. I don’t think that the desk in the kitchen or the tech center on the second floor near the laundry are nearly good enough to be used for study. I gave the orientation point for a mostly N facing set of primary spaces (except that one bedroom that faces south), and no primary space faces west (hot sun).
Comment: Walkscore: 45 / 100
Study needs doors to give privacy from entry. Long circulation routes, especially on second floor due to stair placement. Good individual spaces, missed out on circulation, orientation and location.
Project Name: Bungalows at Temecula Lane,
Size: 1807 sq ft
Project Address: 31260 Black Maple Dr, Temecula, CA
Comment: Walkscore 80/100!
long circulation route with stair pushed off to one side of the plan (especially on floor 2). Outdoor living poorly connected to interior spaces, even though probably a good size. Tech is on a stair landing – not a nice space to be trying to get work done. Really nice kitchen and dining space relationship! Living room is good too. Not a single sideyard space (primary or otherwise)!
Comment: Walkscore: 46/100 — long, hilly circuit to get to destinations nearby (this is a flaw in the programming that walkscore is apparently working on using google’s walking directions function since the current programming doesn’t account for circuitous routes in determining distance – it imagines you’re a crow).
Comment: Walkscore 48/100, but I gave the point due to the proximity to the Irvine business complex and Tustin metrolink <1.1 mi., also, the area is redeveloping on a former marine corps site (a lot of development nearby, but not adjacent due to military site size).
Comment: Parlour and den are silly spaces. Maybe if the parlour was separated better from the entry it could become a very nice study / studio – having lots of light, a view of the outdoor space, and lots of room to work (although it is a bit far from the powder room…) I like the courtyard(ish) space that brings light in, but these spaces feel much too separate, much too individual for me.
Comment: Some nice outdoor spaces – under the ‘loggia’ off the den, and the courtyard off the dining room. Community is at the head of 2 converging highways – walkscore was 3/100 – go figure! Oh, and I hate that master bath layout.
Project Name: Manzanita @ Portola Springs– Plan 1
Size: 2200 sq ft
Project Address: 71 Autumn Sage, Irvine, CA, 92618
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