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Russell Street Addition
Berkeley, California
WWORKSHOP, 2010-2012
I was designer and project architect for this 400 square-foot master
bedroom addition to a 1937 neo-Tudor house. The traditional gable
form is reinterpreted through the use of contemporary materials and
detailing. The extruded, zinc-paneled tube, filled in at both ends
with a glass storefront system, overhangs the original stucco existing walls to emphasize its additive nature.
Russell Street Addition
Berkeley, California
WWORKSHOP, 2010-2012
Russell Street Garden
Berkeley, California
WWORKSHOP, 2014
Currently under construction, the concept was inspired by a small
space and budget. The design transforms inexpensive commercial
products like permeable concrete pavers and an industrial steel rollup door to create an architectural garden extension of the interior.
A two-foot square grid based on the pavers organizes all garden
elements, including a new fence, parking place screen, trellis, and
ground coverings.
steel roll up
door at carport
wood fence
ENTRY
wood screen
planting
stone paver
CARPORT
paver with
gravel infill
permeaple paver
with grass infill
Lovell Avenue Residence Remodel
Mill Valley, California
WWORKSHOP, 2007-2008
The renovation included a new kitchen, which posed a number of
conceptual and technical challenges, including how to integrate
new forms that neither mimicked nor conflicted with the clear
geometry of the existing house by Daniel Liebermann. The kitchen
design emphasizes the horizontal lines of the masonry retaining
wall, creating a visual dialog with the tree-like central structure. The
resulting parallelogram with cantilevered peninsula appears to float.
kitchen
Lovell Avenue Residence Remodel
Mill Valley, California
WWORKSHOP, 2007-2008
de Young Building (Ritz-Carlton)
San Francisco, California, 2004-07
OFFICE OF CHARLES F. BLOSZIES ARCHITECTS
I was project manager of construction documents and administration for the restoration and addition of this Burnham & Root highrise, originally built in 1890 for San Francisco’s Chronicle newspaper. In the 1960s it was envelped in a white steel skin. Fifty years
later, Ritz-Carlton’s transformation of it into a condominium and
timeshare property included a twelve-story addition, new steel core,
shotcrete jacket, and historic restoration.
de Young Building (Ritz-Carlton)
San Francisco, California, 2004-07
OFFICE OF CHARLES F. BLOSZIES ARCHITECTS
The three main challenges include providing a structure flexible
enough to withstand seismic shocks yet sufficiently rigid to stabilized the existing masonry walls; reconstructing the historic façade,
destroyed in the 1960s; and threading new mechanical, electrical,
and plumbing through the existing floors.
Timeline of construction, destruction, and reconstruction
1890 Burnham and Root original
1906: Earthquake damage
1920 Kearny addition
1990: 1960s steel cladding
2005: Construction scaffold
Commercial Interiors
1996-2014
I have designed many commercial interiors in the Bay Area, including a modern furniture showroom and diPietro Todd Salons in
San Francisco, Palo Alto, and Walnut Creek. My design approach
focuses on expressing the existing shell, maximizing the space,
building in flexibility of use, and creating new sociospatial awareness, such as features in the salons that play up the pleasure of
watching people.
Arkitektura Furniture Showroom in San Francisco; view of main
floor with interior kiosk.
DiPietro Todd Salon, Fillmore Street, San Francisco salon; view
from enty.
DiPietro Todd Salon, Walnut Creek; view from mezzanine to reception area.
DiPIETRO TODD SALON
San Francisco, California
WWORKSHOP, 2014
This is one of two identical freestanding reception desks I designed
that transforms traditional reception practices into a mobile in the
round experience, integrating the latest communication, sheduling,
and payment technologies for a cutting edge salon. Hand work is
an important way to for me to explore and convey my ideas. Here,
paper and foam core represent a bent recangular form made of
white oak veneer panels and recycled acrylic counter tops.
Unbuilt
Ribbon Housing
Berkeley, California
VIGILANTE ARCHITECTURE, 1992
Ribbon Housing, which was exhibited in the New Public Realm
Competition, is a proposal for the abandoned Santa Fe Railroad
right-of-way that cuts through 18 residential blocks in Berkeley. The
eleven-foot wide housing prototype creates a continuous promenade with a green space that connects to the north Berkeley BART
station. Bridging elements over the walkway form courtyards and
define the passage. I was one of a team of three designers.
Ribbon Housing
Berkeley, California
VIGILANTE ARCHITECTURE, 1992
third floor
second floor
ground floor
Site plan
Site model, section model
View of existing block condition
San Francisco AIDS Life Center Competition
VIGILANTE ARCHITECTURE, 1990
The international San Francisco AIDS Life Center Competition
called for proposals for a new space for coordinated HIV/AIDS
services and a memorial space to exhibit the NAMES Project
quilt. This design imagined a central skylit, floating exhibit space,
suspended by surrounding rectangular bars, which house service
organization offices. I was one of a team of three designers.
Urban Shelter, SOMA
San Francisco, California
MASTER’S THESIS, 1996
Growing homelessness and gentrification of this formerly light
industrial neighborhood has made the South of Market Area of San
Francisco a critical arena of public-private conflicts. My master’s
thesis was an exploration of these social overlaps. I developed
four different approaches to “street furniture,” using found urban
features to create different models of urban shelter/use that explore
the idea of different users appropriating them as their needs dictate.
SITE 1: Public Swimming Pool
An Olympic-sized outdoor public swimming
pool occupies an excavated with wraparound
sub-sidewalk basements as locker rooms.
SITE 2: Parking Garden
Two interlocking zones--a tree garden and
car-parking court--meet along a zig-zag infrastructure, which cars plug into.
SITE 4: Urban Farm and Market
Bounded by the I-80 freeway, an arcade offers seating, water spigots, and sales stands.
Master of Architecture Studio Projects
UC Berkeley, California
SANCTUARY, 1995
Tucked along the banks of Strawberry Creek, this contemplative
space on the UC Berkeley Campus
brings awareness to the experiences of self and community, in
relationship to the landscape.
MEXICAN MUSEUM, 1995
This proposal for a San Francisco
space celebrating the arts and
culture of Mexico and the Americas
reinterprets Luis Barragan’s smooth
monolithic rectangular forms, intersected with transluscent horizontal
light tubes.