A Wolf In Beach Clothing

by Eero Lloyd Neutra on June 15, 2007

Wolf Ocean

Occasionally high end architecture, especially in custom ocean front homes, falls into what an old acquaintance categorized as “more money than brains” design. The idea is that often people with money end up designing a home that they would never design nor build if there were fiscal limitations. And this lack of constrained creativity produces buildings that don’t quite ring true.

01The Kiko Beach Front Residence tips lightly into this category and is currently under construction at 2649 Ocean Street. Designed by the obviously talented Wolfram Kalber of Wolf Design Build the Kiko Beach House is a functional looking four story that is wrapped in superfluous waves of stucco facades and oddly shaped accessories.

While the building maximizes the lot perfectly, the most interesting aspect is the way it interfaces with the beach out front. A wall separates the public beach from the private beach and then that private beach is again segmented from the swimming area with what looks like a glass enclosure matched on the wall of the pool with a translucent champagne glass like waterfall.

The home is nearing completion and while some could argue that its bombastic contemporary lines are over the top, no one would call it poorly executed, or for that matter ugly.

[Link: Wolf Design Build]

{ 2 comments… read them below or add one }

Beach Dresses May 14, 2009 at 4:24 am

Nice One!!!

some guy May 16, 2009 at 11:07 pm

the “waterfall” is actually a a hot tub suspended out of the wall over the pool. Believe me i was just there an hour ago

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