SF LIVING: HOME TOURS
www.aiasf.org/hometours
This September, AIA San Francisco and the Center for Architecture + Design present the 14th San Francisco Living: Home Tours, a one-day open house event, featuring a select number of modern residences. The popular event showcases a variety of architectural styles, neighborhoods and residences, including single-family homes and contemporary renovations, and is the first tour series in the Bay Area to promote residential design from the architect’s point of view.
DAY OF TOUR ASSISTANCE
For day-of questions (September 24), please call 415.580.2612 for assistance.
WILL CALL TICKETS:
Saturday, September 24 from 9:00 am – 2:00 pm
Studio Roeper Gallery, 215 15th Street, San Francisco
Tickets can be purchased or picked up at this location.
SF Living: Home Tours
September 24, 2016
10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
*Last Entry to homes at 3:45 PM
Home Tours Headquarters
September 24, 2016
9:00 AM – 2:00 PM
215 15th Street, San Francisco, CA
Throughout the day, participants can pick up or purchase tickets to the San Francisco Living: Home Tours at Studio Roeper boutique showroom and gallery. Studio Roeper is a California artisan studio dedicated to the creation of finely crafted luxury furniture for private residences, boutique hotels, design connoisseurs and art collectors around the world.
Home Tours Happy Hour
September 24, 2016
4:00 – 6:00 PM
Studio Roeper Gallery
215 15th Street, San Francisco, CA
Free for ticketholders only.
After enjoying the San Francisco Living Home tours, participants are encouraged to join us back at the Home Tours Headquarters at Studio Roeper Gallery to socialize, enjoy a happy hour of light refreshments, and talk about highlights of the day.
Switchback House
Located in San Francisco’s Noe Valley neighborhood, the Switchback House is a new construction, ground-up home. The new home consists of two separate residential units arranged over three, split-level floor plates. The primary residential unit occupies the upper two floors while the secondary unit is located on the ground floor with direct access to the rear yard. Designed to be as sensitive as possible to the surrounding neighborhood, the new architecture is unapologetically modern while still referencing the broader Victorian context beyond. Generous amounts of glazing immerse the interior living spaces with natural light. Multi-slide glass doors recess into wall pockets to further erode the barriers between interior and exterior and provide direct access to the outdoor spaces and the views of the city beyond. A simple material pallet of white, gallery-like walls and white oak flooring run continuously throughout the home making a calm and serene interior environment.
Images © Joe Fletcher
Alamo Square Residence
Neighboring Alamo Square Park, a historic San Francisco landmark, this three-story residence is a house with two faces. From the street, the original 1889 façade is faithfully restored, and appears to be dipped in a modern bath of silver paint, hinting at the transformation within. The rear façade reveals the building’s new identity in a multi-layered composition of sliding aluminum screens and glass. Upon entering, light punctures through from above and the house centers around a sculptural staircase. The form of the stair is a twisted volume, alternating between wood-clad solids and light-filled voids. The stair rises to the rooftop where a sweeping San Francisco view awaits and connects the house to the historic city and to the Bay and beyond.
Image courtesy of Jensen Architects
Laidley Street Residence
Located in the Glen Park neighborhood of San Francisco, this ground-up residence harnesses natural light throughout the day, captures views of a wind-swept park, and makes a strong visual connection to the split-level road at the front of the property. At the main living level, a continuous wall of rift-sawn oak veneer cabinetry runs the full length of the building tying the living area, kitchen, and dining area into one cohesive space. Floor-to-ceiling glass at the master suite and dining area opens the interior spaces to a dramatic view of downtown San Francisco.
Images © Cesar Rubio
Linden Street Apartments
Challenging the local San Francisco vernacular with powerful contemporary style, this new apartment building designed by Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS) plays with viewer perception to create dramatic visual and spatial effects. Linden Street, a back alley to Hayes Valley’s boutique San Francisco mixed-use commercial and residential district, incorporates an eclectic group of traditional one- to four-story Victorian and Edwardian houses. Adapting local vernacular with contemporary sensibility, this design maximizes building area on a minimal lot with expansive circulation spaces connecting street life clear through to rear rooftop open spaces. By creatively interpreting local zoning codes (bay window, awning, cornice, and balcony) Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS) generated a unified building facade with unique optic and haptic spatial characteristics.
Images © Tim Griffith
Nancy and Stephen Grand
Family House
Located near the new hospital in Mission Bay, The Nancy and Stephen Grand Family House provides a comforting and supportive environment for 80 families in a non-institutional, residential setting. The building is organized around 8 clusters of guest rooms and common areas on the building’s upper floors. Each cluster includes 10 guest rooms and shared living, dining, kitchen, play area and laundry rooms. The clusters surround a large landscaped multi-use courtyard at the second floor. The guest rooms have two sizes: a single room and a double suite. Each guest room has a projecting bay window, placed at alternating locations to create variety. A grand stair connects the reception area with the second-floor courtyard that serves as a focus of all the upper floors. Common areas for living, dining, cooking and play were placed at the corners of the courtyard, which also accesses terraces, a gym and a social room for teenagers.
Images © Roger Swanson
Two-Way House
The Two-Way House embodies a multitude of conversations between ourselves and our clients to realize the marriage of San Francisco’s historic urban fabric with today’s modern needs/desires in a thoughtfully crafted home filled with daylight seamlessly connecting to the garden.
Our client’s goals of filling their home with natural light while connecting inside to outside formed the transformation of this Pacific Heights row house, a quintessential San Francisco challenge. The Two-Way house was conceived around the pairing of the original 1900 Victorian façade and traditional parlor with an open plan and modern 2-story backyard addition. The design maximizes space creating a generous single family home (with smaller 2nd unit) while deftly resolving constraints that have shaped the remodel of many San Francisco homes.
Images © Jasper Sanidad
