CIVIC | ARTS

Tehama County Courthouse

Design Architect

  • LPAS Architecture + Design

  • 62,000 sf

  • $56m

  • Redbluff, CA

The new Courthouse replaces an outdated but beloved facility previously serving the community and provides much needed expansion and moderation. The brick facade references the original courthouse while the 5 new courtrooms, designed in dialogue with the judiciary design committee, provides a softer aesthetic and less authoritarian look desired by the Judges.

Friends of Photography Gallery

Designer | Project Manager | Project Architect

  • PFAU Architecture

  • 5,600 sf total: 4,400 sf Lobby/Galleries, 1,200 sf Bookstore

  • 2,000 sf Offices located at floor above

  • South of Market, San Francisco, CA

Ground floor tenant improvement for a non-profit arts organization originally founded but Ansel Adams. Lobby and retails space front Mission Street one block from Yerba Buena Park and the neighboring SF MOMA Gallery.

Three connected gallery spaces provide are divided by fixed partitions held down from the ceiling to heighten the the expanse of space and sense of discovery. The original concrete building structure is exposed adding visual and textural character to the space while revealing the underlining order to the rooms. Adjacent the main galleries The Ansel Adams Center, a dedicated permanent exhibit room design for the permeant collection of Ansel Adams work owned by the Friends of Photography.

SF Camerawork Gallery

Designer | Project Manager | Project Architect

  • PFAU Architecture

  • 2,600 sf

  • 5 moving wall panels, add. 800 sf of gallery display

  • South of Market, San Francisco, CA

Second floor tenant improvement in existing SOMA industrial building. New Galley, office, bookstore and meeting space for a non-profit Photo Arts organization. Working with a very minimal budget common Unistrut parts are employed for partitions and fixtures. Utilizing standard hardware, moving wall panels are developed that allow for greater gallery display space and flexible configuration.

Potrero Nuevo Foundation

Design Architect | Project Manager | Project Architect

  • PFAU Architecture

  • 1,900 sf

  • flexible ground floor with lower level studio

  • Potrero Hill, San Francisco, CA

Inspired by the owners love of Japanese culture, the building is conceived as a transparent pavilion in the garden providing flexible space to a non-profit arts organization. Set in a tight urban condition, the pavilion spans the width of the standard San Francisco lot with CMU walls at the property lines and full glass walls in-between. Gardens at both ends, the glass walls slide open blurring the lines between inside and out.

Eskaton Village Community Center

Job Captain | Design Contributor

  • Vitiello + Associates

  • 40,000 sf

  • Center of the 37 acre senior community

  • Carmichael, CA

Centered in the 37 acre Senior Life Plan Community (CCRC), the Community Center facility serves and visual and functional heart of the campus. Numerous business, social and community functions are serviced and housed in the facility including the main entrance and lobby for visitors and the main restaurant and dining facilities.

Sack Photo Archives

Designer | Project Manager

  • PFAU Architecture

  • 300 sf Galley in private real estate office

  • 64 panels with over 1,000 sf of display

  • Union Square, San Francisco, CA

Small photography gallery and storage system for noted collector Paul Sack for his private collection housed in his Real Estate Offices in San Francisco. Working with a Canadian hardware manufacture we developed a telescoping top hung track that allows panes to move from stored to displayed position without interfering with the lighting above.