San Francisco home office merges productivity and domestic calm

San Francisco house workplace merges productiveness and home calm

Architects Luke Ogrydziak and Zoë Prillinger of studio OPA have been requested to return to a residential venture they designed in 2005 – T Home – for the addition of a San Francisco house workplace atop the present construction. Nicknamed The Aerie, the brand new design not solely crowns a comparatively clear and sober constructing with a considerably flamboyant extension, but additionally presents a next-generation house workplace for its homeowners, a pair with three youngsters. 

Whereas the venture’s spectacular, angular types is likely to be the very first thing to catch the attention, it was the shaping of the interior lighting situations that led a lot of the design growth. OPA labored with parametric programs and consultants Loisos & Ubbelohde with the intention to good each little element and nook, in and out. ‘We wished to create the impact of “floating” above the house and downtown San Francisco. To attain this, we determined to make the partitions and ceiling disappear,’ Ogrydziak says. ‘Wrap-around glass gives a panoramic view of the town and Marin [County] past. Above, the roof consists solely of skylights sitting above a multi-layer system of diffusers, which cut back glare and react to completely different lighting situations. The result’s an unusually mushy, even mild which varies with atmospheric situations and makes the room really feel like being outdoors, whereas nonetheless sustaining visible consolation.’ 

Inside, a daybed is readily available for work breaks and moments of contemplation

A mix of digital research and scale fashions helped the workforce mould their concepts, testing completely different skylight and window glazing methods in various mild situations alongside the way in which. The ultimate expression combines a skylight diffuser and operable shades; collectively, these supply a wide range of illumination choices that may be tailored to go well with a variety of wants – and all of it occurs routinely, utilizing a intelligent system that controls the ambient mild. Sverre Fehn’s Nordic Pavilion in Venice served as inspiration. ‘We have been aiming for the same ethereal high quality of extremely diffuse pure mild,’ says Ogrydziak. 

The architects labored arduous to verify the customers get optimum working situations inside, together with two built-in, but adaptable desks, hidden cupboard space, a digital stereo system (the angled ceiling breaks up the sound waves, decreasing reverberation occasions), a bookshelf, and even a daybed for breaks. The Aerie’s aluminium-clad, convex-faceted form cantilevers in the direction of the Bay. It’s gleaming and distinctive, like a sci-fi management room born out of Twenty first-century wants, completely designed to offer a transparent and wholesome psychological separation between house and workspace. §