HIGH END RESIDENTIAL
Menlo Park Residence
Design Architect | Principal in Charge
serrao design | Architecture
3,500 sf
Addition & Remodel
Menlo Park, CA
A completely restructured public space celebrates its new connection to the outside.
The existing simple modern home denied it’s relationship to the land. This young family wanted to be able to have a greater connection to the space that they had available. The center part of the home was completely demolished and a new double height space rose up in it’s place. Solid with clerestory windows to the public side, and wide open with glass on the private side.
The extra wide glass doors pocket into a cedar wall when not needed to blur the line between outside and inside.
Adams Estate
Design Architect | Principal in Charge
SAC studios
6,000 sf
New Construction
Sierra Oaks Vista, Sacramento, CA
A new home, sitting on the footprint of the old, wraps around a private courtyard
This sprawling home wraps around a private courtyard with a pool. The public spaces all open up to the courtyard with a series of very large glass doors that pocket into walls to disappear. The glass is taken all the way up to the ceiling to give a transparent and open feel to each of the spaces.
Canopies stretch from the driveway to the entry and from the house to the guest/pool house providing a shaded respite from the harsh Sacramento sun in the summer, and the rains in the winter. Large eaves and overhangs take the sun patterns into account to provide considered environmental relief to the interiors.
Schindler | Kelloge Residence
Design Architect | Principal in Charge
serrao design | Architecture
3,600 sf, 3 levels, additions at top & bottom
Preservation and Expansion
Potrero Hill, San Francisco
Tri-story hilltop home with access to to the outside from every room.
The original home was a single bedroom, single bath, modernist home by FJ McCarthy. To better utilize the site and fit with the clients needs, the home was expanded to a third floor and at the first floor while carefully respecting the original modernist elements. A careful restoration of the original, and a sensitive nod to the original with the new, the finished home seamlessly integrates.
Every inch of this home was carefully crafted to exacting standards.
Ellis Residence
Design Architect | Principal in Charge
serrao design | Architecture
6,300 sf
Additions at back at 2nd floor
Piedmont, CA
Mid-Century home set in the “traditional” Estates of Piedmont. A classic Mullet home is developed where the existing street facing facade retains it’s scale and character (for good neighbor consideration) with upgrades to finishes and details while the New Construction at the back is decidedly Modern in character.