PRESERVATION
Schindler | Kelloge Residence
Design Architect | Principal in Charge
serrao design | Architecture
3,600 sf
Preservation and Expansion
Original building built in 1949
Potrero Hill, San Francisco
Perched atop Potrero hill, an exacting restoration and sensitive addition. In doubling the square footage, the flow from inside to outside from every room was retained.
The original home was designed by the Architect Francis Joseph McCarthy, a founding member of the Bay Area planning group, Telesis and noted contributor to the Bay Regional Tradition.
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.
The original home was noted as significant on the City of San Franciscos historic survey, which necessitated that the new additions conform to the Secretary of the Interior Standards for Treatment of Historic Properties.
Capehorn Live/Work Lofts
Design Contributor
PFAU Architecture
30,000 sf
16 unit condominium conversion
Original building built in 1892
South End Historic District, San Francisco
19th century brick warehouse conversion into 21st century Live/Work Lofts. Existing brick envelope structure is preserved with its look and character intact. Interior is restructured to support 16 new condominium units and a perimeter roof terrace above. Upper penthouse level units are set back and articulated with a corrugated skin to relate but distinguish from the historic brick.
SF Honda Fascade + Showroom Remodel
Designer | Project Architect | Project Manager
PFAU Architecture
97,000 sf
Facade & Showroom Remodel
Original building built in 1927
Market & Van Ness, San Francisco
Overall facility upgrade focussed on seismic upgrades, improved lighting, accessibility, expanded sales offices, new customer waiting and information areas and improved exterior appearance to 100 year old building with a long history as an auto sales showroom. In addition to auto sales, the building once housed the El Patio Ballroom, the Carousel Ballroom and the Fillmore West concert venue where Janis Joplin, Jimmy Hendrix and others performed.
The design strategy employed focused on improving the retail experience while avoiding costly work associated with correcting failed decorative elements on the 1920s facade.
New work added to the existing structure is designed as light attachments allowing the original architectural features to remain (preserved) as they are without further harm, to be easily removed at a later date as the needs off the building changes.
Sonoma Guest House
Project Architect | Project Manager
PFAU Architecture
1,400 sf total: 800 sf original, 600 sf added
Preservation & Expansion
Original building built in 1960
Sonoma County, CA
The original house was the first four structures built on the 41 acre property by the Architect Paul Hamilton, a Taliesen trained student of Frank Lloyd Wright.
The new work adds two bedrooms and a bathroom uphill for the original structure connected by transparent stair/hallway. Starched out and sensitively popping through the original structure at an existing closet area, no significant or distinctive features of the original architecture are altered to make the connection of new to old. The language of the new addition is developed to make reference with our duplicating the original. The same roof slope is used with similarly exposed roof structure while a more modern concrete block masonry is used that picks up similar color tones as the original, distinctly Wrightian limestone masonry.