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BOTO Design Architects

Based in Santa Monica, California, BOTO Design Architects defines its commercial, studio, and residential projects through crisp white massing punctuated by shifting roof profiles, corner-wrapping solar louvers, and ceiling cutaways that channel diagonal light shafts across interior walls. This portfolio serves as a precise reference for integrating natural daylighting monitors into deep interior layouts or detailing exterior shading screens along vertical circulation cores.

Digital interior render of a double-height living room with vaulted timber ceiling and clerestory windows by BOTO Design Architects.

ILSH Interior

A double-height residential living room utilizing vaulted timber ceilings and high clerestory apertures to maximize vertical volume and daylight.

What we like about this project
The large cutaway in the upper right ceiling plane creates an unexpected diagonal light shaft across the white wall.

Materials

  • timber
  • glass
  • plaster
  • fabric
  • wood-flooring

Visual identifiers

  • vaulted-timber-ceiling
  • double-height
  • clerestory-window
  • mezzanine-edge

Style tags

  • contemporary
  • warm-minimal
  • residential

Visual tags

  • residential
  • living-room
  • double-height
  • timber-ceiling
  • warm-interior
Geometry
A spacious double-height volume featuring a pitched timber ceiling, large wall openings, and a mezzanine balcony edge along the upper left.
Structural guess
Timber roof trusses over bearing walls
Spatial scale
Double-height grand living hall with human-scale furnishings below.
Lighting
Soft ambient light entering through high-level clerestory windows and lower sliding glass doors.
Atmosphere
Bright, airy, and grounded by warm wood textures and soft textiles.
Environmental context
Residential interior with views of exterior greenery through the ground-level doors.
Spatial experience
The room opens up vertically while maintaining cozy seating areas anchored on a central rug.
Composition rhythm
Horizontal lower openings balanced against the vertical pitch of the upper ceiling and tall indoor plantings.
Style reading
Contemporary warm minimal interior with natural timber accents
Program
Residential living hall
Perspective
Interior Spatial
Discipline
interior
Materials
timber, glass, plaster, fabric, wood-flooring
Visual identifiers
vaulted-timber-ceiling, double-height, clerestory-window, mezzanine-edge
Style tags
contemporary, warm-minimal, residential
Visual tags
residential, living-room, double-height, timber-ceiling, warm-interior
Geometry
A spacious double-height volume featuring a pitched timber ceiling, large wall openings, and a mezzanine balcony edge along the upper left.
Structural guess
Timber roof trusses over bearing walls
Spatial scale
Double-height grand living hall with human-scale furnishings below.
Lighting
Soft ambient light entering through high-level clerestory windows and lower sliding glass doors.
Atmosphere
Bright, airy, and grounded by warm wood textures and soft textiles.
Environmental context
Residential interior with views of exterior greenery through the ground-level doors.
Spatial experience
The room opens up vertically while maintaining cozy seating areas anchored on a central rug.
Composition rhythm
Horizontal lower openings balanced against the vertical pitch of the upper ceiling and tall indoor plantings.
Style reading
Contemporary warm minimal interior with natural timber accents
Program
Residential living hall
Perspective
Interior Spatial
Discipline
interior

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Digital interior render of a double-height living room with vaulted timber ceiling and clerestory windows by BOTO Design Architects.

ILSH Interior

A double-height residential living room utilizing vaulted timber ceilings and high clerestory apertures to maximize vertical volume and daylight.

What we like about this project
The large cutaway in the upper right ceiling plane creates an unexpected diagonal light shaft across the white wall.

Materials

  • timber
  • glass
  • plaster
  • fabric
  • wood-flooring

Visual identifiers

  • vaulted-timber-ceiling
  • double-height
  • clerestory-window
  • mezzanine-edge

Style tags

  • contemporary
  • warm-minimal
  • residential

Visual tags

  • residential
  • living-room
  • double-height
  • timber-ceiling
  • warm-interior
Geometry
A spacious double-height volume featuring a pitched timber ceiling, large wall openings, and a mezzanine balcony edge along the upper left.
Structural guess
Timber roof trusses over bearing walls
Spatial scale
Double-height grand living hall with human-scale furnishings below.
Lighting
Soft ambient light entering through high-level clerestory windows and lower sliding glass doors.
Atmosphere
Bright, airy, and grounded by warm wood textures and soft textiles.
Environmental context
Residential interior with views of exterior greenery through the ground-level doors.
Spatial experience
The room opens up vertically while maintaining cozy seating areas anchored on a central rug.
Composition rhythm
Horizontal lower openings balanced against the vertical pitch of the upper ceiling and tall indoor plantings.
Style reading
Contemporary warm minimal interior with natural timber accents
Program
Residential living hall
Perspective
Interior Spatial
Discipline
interior
Materials
timber, glass, plaster, fabric, wood-flooring
Visual identifiers
vaulted-timber-ceiling, double-height, clerestory-window, mezzanine-edge
Style tags
contemporary, warm-minimal, residential
Visual tags
residential, living-room, double-height, timber-ceiling, warm-interior
Geometry
A spacious double-height volume featuring a pitched timber ceiling, large wall openings, and a mezzanine balcony edge along the upper left.
Structural guess
Timber roof trusses over bearing walls
Spatial scale
Double-height grand living hall with human-scale furnishings below.
Lighting
Soft ambient light entering through high-level clerestory windows and lower sliding glass doors.
Atmosphere
Bright, airy, and grounded by warm wood textures and soft textiles.
Environmental context
Residential interior with views of exterior greenery through the ground-level doors.
Spatial experience
The room opens up vertically while maintaining cozy seating areas anchored on a central rug.
Composition rhythm
Horizontal lower openings balanced against the vertical pitch of the upper ceiling and tall indoor plantings.
Style reading
Contemporary warm minimal interior with natural timber accents
Program
Residential living hall
Perspective
Interior Spatial
Discipline
interior

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