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| Wine Creek Road Residence Healdsburg, CA This small family retreat was designed to make the most of its site while reducing environmental impacts. The house is sited at the top of a sloping meadow where it captures views across the meadow to the valley beyond. A simple gable roof connects enclosed living and sleeping areas otherwise separated by an open "dogtrot." The dogtrot is the focal point for outdoor living so desirable in this benign climate. The simple bar shape of the building is punctuated by two bays. The kitchen bay opens to views up the steep hillside behind the house, while the living room bay opens to dramatic distant views.
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| West Soda Rock Lane Residence Healdsburg, CA This residence for a family of four is located on a hilltop above the Alexander Valley. The design is a response to both the dramatic views from the home’s site and the clients wish for a structure that reflects the traditional farm houses of the region. Abundant outdoor space in the form of trellised, screened, and open porches allow for year round enjoyment of the home’s exquisite natural setting, while interior spaces are related to the site through carefully framed views of surrounding oaks and the hills beyond. |
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| Emeryville Resourceful Building Emeryville, CA The Emeryville Resourceful Building Project combines environmental goals with the economic and social goals of providing affordable housing. This three-unit project is located on an infill lot in a neighborhood of single-family houses and small apartment buildings. The budget and design goals of this project are modest: the building endeavors to fit into and strengthen the existing neighborhood. The design incorporates resource and energy efficient measures such as the use of recycled, durable, non-toxic building materials, and job-site recycling. We utilized environmental life-cycle analysis to evaluate the environmental performance of building assemblies.
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| 7 Hallam Street San Francisco, CA Narrow alleys, industrial buildings, and townhouses are the context for a new infill project developed on a 50' x 75' lot in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood. A simple stucco façade provides the framework for a palette of industrial materials. Galvanized metal clerestories, exposed steel stairs and bracing, and large “warehouse” windows are coupled with bay windows and balconies. The nine small but dramatic units contain double height spaces, mezzanine levels and “saw-tooth” clerestory windows.
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| Alvarado Road Residence Oakland, CA The surviving concrete piers of a house destroyed in the Oakland fire established a skewed geometry for the new house: square to the street, rotated beyond to bay views. The approach to the house descends through a garden between the studio and house. Inside, the downward path continues: floor levels step down towards the view under an uninterrupted ceiling plane and shaped ceiling heights that are scaled to room sizes.
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| 1268 63rd Street Emeryville, CA The scale, rhythm and materials of surrounding houses provided a point of departure for the design of this four-unit project. Two duplexes are sited on either side of a landscaped parking court that also functions as a common paved play area. The front building is placed to maintain the street edge. Interiors are simple and compact, but the large windows on three sides of each unit and double-height living rooms contribute to a sense of spaciousness.
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| Regal Road Remodel Berkeley, CA A steeply sloping lot allowed us to develop and extend an unused basement to expand this small bungalow into a generous family home. The roof of the downstairs addition became a new trellised loggia for the main level that overlooks the spacious back yard and the bay beyond. The narrow, dark entry hall was widened to accommodate new stairs to the lower level and heightened with a new dormer. |
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| Duncan Street Remodel San Francisco , CA New built-in seating for concerts, display space, bookshelves, and storage were designed to surround two grand pianos. Wood banisters and handrails were replaced with aluminum handrails. Aluminum strips let into the new maple casework continue the line of the handrail. Rosewood display cases are recessed into the maple; at the new fireplace surround the material palate is reversed, emphasizing rosewood rather than maple. The corner of the “landlocked” kitchen was opened to the living room with large fluted glass windows which slide open to reveal the expansive view beyond the living room.
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