Residential on Glenhaven Avenue

Grading plans, excavation plans, and drainage plans for a Pacific Palisades fire rebuild on a steep 12% slope. The street itself is steep, which required careful design for the driveway apron connection to the basement and garage finished floor. The garage and basement sit on the same level with a lightwell behind the basement.

The first story of the new house sits roughly where the existing house was, tying into the existing grade closely. But the basement level required excavation deeper into the hillside.

We used area drains throughout the site to collect stormwater. A deep trench was cut to pipe everything out to the street. The drainage connection uses a circle to rectangle adapter, finishing with a rectangular steel pipe that outlets through the curbface.