San Francisco bungalow transformed into spacious architectural home

San Francisco bungalow reworked into spacious architectural residence

A San Francisco bungalow has been reworked by native structure apply Spiegel Aihara Workshop (SAW) into a contemporary household residence. The Fourth Wall, because the mission has been titled, expands a 1907 residence within the metropolis’s Bernal Heights neighbourhood. The sq. footage addition was not the one aim with this mission. The architects and purchasers additionally needed to make the connection between the inside dwelling areas and the backyard extra ‘intentional’, and each goals are achieved in a single fell swoop with a brand-new rear extension and façade. 

With this transfer, darkish, cramped, inward-looking rooms have been reimagined into brilliant and spacious interiors oriented in direction of a inexperienced backyard. An present, smaller exterior constructing was totally eliminated and changed with the extension, spanning the house’s full three ranges and including a structured, modern, geometric look to the rear façade. 

The 2 decrease ranges include largely dwelling and entertaining areas for household and friends, whereas the highest flooring homes bedrooms, with the master bedroom trying right down to the inexperienced backyard. From there, the façade seems like a stack of home windows, terraces and openings, highlighting the ample gentle and visible connections the redesigned residence now has. A brand new staircase inside additionally hyperlinks up seamlessly all inside ranges. 

‘In the direction of the yard, the outside cladding seems to show inside out, wrapping the identical slatted sample alongside the fences and, in flip, framing the yard as an outside room,’ the architects write. ‘This fence is usually used as a display for scenic projections. As well as, SAW regraded the yard for drainage and added raised Corten perimeter planter beds for screening and an edible backyard. This all performs out as a giant inversion, because the yard was reoriented to face in, a seat from which to expertise the exercise taking part in out throughout the house.’

From drained San Francisco bungalow to spacious, architectural residence; The Fourth Wall is a intelligent sleight of hand that provides design worth to the present city cloth. SAW companions and co-founders Dan Spiegel and Megumi Aihara are deft at this sort of feat, as earlier tasks by the studio, such because the Wraparound Home, exhibit. §