SYCAMORE HOUSE

Sycamore House wears a skin of shadows, seemingly embedded in stone. Uniting my drawings to solid architecture, a continuous shadow motif was sand blasted onto the surface of 143 individual panels - roughly 14 x 90” each - of a recycled material called Eco-Cem. This subtle façade of beautiful texture provides a perfect visual integration of home and nature.  

Kovac Design Studios, Los Angeles, CA
Codaworx
photo credits: Catherine Cummings, Lars Frazer

“Sykes has taken the poetic abstract shapes of her paintings and treated the outside of this distinctively designed modernist residence as a canvas…The result is a soft, light catching surface of constantly moving shadow that echoes the texture, movement and shade of surrounding trees.”

Sycamore House; Suvan Geer