Private residence 4,000 sf, 3 stories, Type V Perth Place, Oakland, CA private client
Deep walls cradle a four storey 4,000 sf "vertical studio" for the owner’s mid-century modern art and furniture collection: a glass gallery for living, painting and exhibiting.
The XYZ house rises on the foundations of a smaller structure lost in the Oakland Hills firestorm of 1991. Cantilevered decks and an aluminum clad "waterworks" enclosure curve through a volume of grids braced by diagonal steel struts. This geometry fashions a divisionless space with a sense of unlimited movement up, down and across. The 3 bdrm/ 3 bath plan with a large work studio combines sunshading, thermal mass, and cross ventilation into a system of passive solar conditioning. In the Eastbay tradition of architectural experimentation the minimal sheds of the past 50 years have been re-focused into a layering of X, Y, and Z coordinates. This Cartesian outcropping gives shelter to those local spirits surviving the fire. |
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