My Villa designs and builds Italian-designed, fire-resilient reinforced concrete custom homes in Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Holmby Hills and Trousdale — homes engineered to stay insurable through California's wildfire and insurance cycles, and built with the museum-grade craftsmanship of the partners behind Renzo Piano's Kimbell Art Museum and the Pinault Collection's Palazzo Grassi.
A custom home in Beverly Hills or Bel Air is among the most valuable real estate in the world. Increasingly, what determines whether it stays that way is not the address or the finishes — it is whether the home is built to remain insurable, and standing, through the fire and insurance cycles that now define California.
Beverly Hills and Bel Air are two markets in one. The flats of the 90210 carry lower direct wildfire exposure; the hillsides of Bel Air, Beverly Crest and the canyons above Sunset sit in elevated Fire Hazard Severity Zones with a long fire history — the 1961 Bel Air Fire destroyed nearly 500 homes across these same slopes. Both, today, sit inside the same hardening insurance market.
For anyone commissioning a custom home in these neighborhoods, the consequences are concrete:
The decision that shapes all of this is the structural system, made on the first pass. Build the envelope right and the home is insurable at the certificate of occupancy; get it wrong and the cost surfaces for decades.
A My Villa is cast in architectural concrete by DGU, the Italian construction firm whose built work includes Renzo Piano's Kimbell Art Museum expansion and the Pinault Collection's Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana in Venice for Tadao Ando. Whether the site is a flat 90210 lot or a steep Bel Air parcel, the home is a layered non-combustible system from the slab to the fence line, engineered to satisfy the 2026 WUI Code, the Safer from Wildfires 12-measure framework, and IBHS Wildfire Prepared Home Plus at once.
250 mm reinforced concrete or ICF walls — a 4+ hour fire rating with no wood studs or combustible cladding. The structure itself is the fire barrier.
Multi-pane tempered glass and SFM-certified WUI-compliant vents — critical for the canyon-wind ember exposure of the Bel Air hillsides.
Fire-rated concrete roof, enclosed boxed eaves and non-combustible soffits to stop ember accumulation at the roof-wall junction.
Foundations, retaining and reinforcement detailed to California seismic and geotechnical standard by BUROMILAN for sloped Bel Air and Beverly Crest parcels.
The architectural language adapts to the neighborhood. The clean single-story horizontal lines that define Trousdale Estates are well served by reinforced concrete and ICF — long spans, cantilevers and exposed béton-brut surfaces — while a Bel Air estate parcel can carry the full Italian villa typology. The structural logic stays constant; the form follows the site.
Every commission begins from one of four foundational typologies, calibrated to the geometry of your parcel — flat lot, view lot, estate site or hillside. Each is a starting point, fully personalised in materials, proportion and finish.
Organised around an open sky — the interior courtyard as the heart of domestic life. Ideal for the flats of Beverly Hills and Holmby Hills.
Two volumes meeting at a right angle, sheltering a garden and framing the view. Suited to corner and view parcels.
Independent volumes linked by circulation — each function its own structure. Built for the estate sites of Bel Air and Beverly Park.
Architecture that steps with the terrain, each level opening to its own horizon. Purpose-built for the Bel Air and Beverly Crest hillsides.
Reinforced concrete costs more than wood frame up front — roughly 3% of total construction cost. At the Beverly Hills structural baseline of about $540 to $845+ per square foot, that premium is modest against what it buys: insurability at occupancy, far lower lifetime maintenance, and an envelope designed to last centuries. Insurance savings alone typically offset the premium within 2-5 years. We set out the market-specific figures in the Beverly Hills reinforced-concrete cost analysis and the underlying logic in the 3% premium that unlocks up to 50% insurance savings.
Every commission includes a site-specific project-economics analysis — insurance positioning, resale and value-retention scenarios, design and resilience specification, lifecycle maintenance. It is advisory and transparent: scenarios with clear assumptions, never promises without context.
My Villa is the Los Angeles practice of IT'S Architecture (Rome · Paris), the research-driven studio co-founded by Paolo Mezzalama in 2016. It coordinates a collaboration of specialists, each a leader in their discipline:
Rome · Paris. NAJA recognition, Italian National Architecture Prize. Piazza dei Cinquecento, Termini, FOROF.
Treviso · Los Angeles · Baja California. Palazzo Grassi, Punta della Dogana, Kimbell Art Museum.
Stuttgart · New York. 30+ years. Harvard Science Complex, Masdar City, Mercedes-Benz Museum.
Milan · New York. 40 years, 90+ projects. Politecnico Milano (Piano), Fondazione Rovati Museum.
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Our primary footprint centres on Beverly Hills, Bel Air and the surrounding hillside luxury markets. For the architectural typology behind our homes see Italian villa builder in California; for the construction system see reinforced concrete & ICF home builder in Los Angeles; for the coast see our Malibu luxury home builder guide.
Custom luxury construction in Beverly Hills typically runs from roughly $540 to $845+ per square foot at the structural baseline, rising further with finish level and site complexity. Reinforced concrete adds roughly a 3% premium over equivalent wood-frame construction — usually offset within 2-5 years through wildfire insurance savings of up to 50% for IBHS-certified homes (Mercury, USAA, Travelers, Chubb).
Yes, but underwriting has tightened — especially in the Bel Air and Beverly Crest hillsides within elevated Fire Hazard Severity Zones. Homes that natively meet the 2026 WUI Code, the 12-measure Safer from Wildfires framework and IBHS Wildfire Prepared Home Plus remain insurable in the admitted market, often with discounts. Reinforced concrete clears all three at once.
The flats carry lower direct exposure than the hillsides, but California's insurance market has tightened statewide and embers travel well beyond mapped zones. A non-combustible reinforced concrete home strengthens insurability, lowers lifetime maintenance and retains value across the whole 90210 and 90077.
About 20 months from signed commission to keys: roughly one month discovery, one month typology selection, two to three months personalisation, three months engineering and permits, and around thirteen months construction. Hillside grading and permitting review can extend the front end on complex Bel Air sites.
Yes. The clean single-story horizontal lines of Trousdale Estates and modern Beverly Hills are well served by reinforced concrete and ICF — long spans, cantilevers and exposed architectural concrete. The same mass delivers fire resilience, thermal comfort and acoustic separation.
My Villa builds Italian-designed reinforced concrete custom homes across Beverly Hills and Bel Air. The concrete is executed by DGU — behind Renzo Piano's Kimbell Art Museum expansion and the Pinault Collection's Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana — with California structural engineering and Los Angeles construction management.
Currently accepting a limited number of California commissions for 2026–2027. A briefing begins with a site visit, a structural feasibility review, and a site-specific insurance positioning analysis — led personally by our founding partner.
Prefer email? Write to info@myvilla.laOur founding partner will personally respond within 48 hours with next steps for your private briefing.