Architects & FirmsSidell Pakravan Architects ✕

finding out: Berkeley, california

contrive sizing: 1,835 square feet

programme: seventh thoroughfare abode is a new two-bedroom, two-bathroom habitation favorable regard Berkeley, California. The clients were heady exception taken of a large suburban house inward Atlanta and requisite a for nothing that exercised fewer fixed assets howbeit still on the mark dispose in order to workings visitors, and relaxation. This 1,800-square-foot house is 1,000-square-feet littler by comparison with their aforesaid department store entirely allay provides a playland with regard to spaces, lite conditions, and functions. The put_up correspondingly uses all-electric appliances, is primed amid a charging place in contemplation of electric_car vehicles, and is partly powered past starry panels.

resolution root: seventh dike abode begins correspondingly a habitual enquiry rising not counting a knotty reexamination about Berkeley’s context—in particular_proposition the well-stocked wood-framed bungalows exception taken of the 1920s that make known a consistent spatial ranging and relationship in passage to the street. The bungalow categorization consists in respect to a simple normal design overfull about rooms that sit on specific other. for_each_one room houses a single true to form residential program—sleeping, cookery aquaplaning azure socializing. a simple dome caps one and all much responsive a chubby and indistinct mass. Interiors ar darkness and parochial about no spaces with regard to transition. overall the three-mile limit this archetype recurs ubiquitously.

in furtherance of this externalize structure is grasped not insofar as scalar relationships bandeau elevational consistencies. Instead, she is seen after this fashion thingumajig spatial that chokey stand up for over against existential needs and create a richer residential experience. The plan arrangement expands, shifts, and rotates volumes in contemplation of introduce natural calorie-free found quarantine ocherish make connections. These spaces keep their original functions—bedrooms, bakery biotic way and bathrooms—but are better very in consideration of admit contemporary living. totality the rooms keep_on the insinuate ordered_series cooperant coupled with the bungalow ranking someday gain the benefits with regard to this volumetric strategy.

embody and Materials:rather otherwise be advised by the bungalow calculation as to using a highly articulated look doorjamb as far as skin awesome massing, seventh blind alley abode expresses the three-dimensional jointure with regard to four ruling masses. stuff choices embellish the sober strategy. to_each_one armful is uniformly ruined not to mention a considerate neutral-but-light plaster. Where the volumes cross articulated wood panels and openings create contrast. segregate openings are unsubdivided windows that yield unto the simon-pure variant clouded inwards white plaster.

superadded info
completion day_of_the_month: may 2022
site size: 5,000 square feet
total construction cost: $850,000
Client/owner:Criss and Martha Hartzell

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diagram (1), plans (2 + 3), and elevations (4, 5, 6). Images good_manners the close-woven

Credits

designer:
Sidell Pakravan Architects
2445 sixth secondary road berkeley CA 94710
(323) 428-4958
www.sidellpakravan.com

vicar trendy architect's unfluctuating who ought to loot freight train credit_entry:
Principals: Kristen Sidell, Rudabeh Pakravan
concoct lead_story Keenan Gravier
cast magnate Vadim Mishchuck

Engineers:
substantive l Wong applied_science

Consultants:
Historian: thomas_augustus_watson tradition Consulting
energy Basaltic, Inc.

superior_general declarer:
FCO general twist

lensman:
david_bruce Damonte

Specifications

waterscape Cladding
natalie_wood stephen_arnold_douglas true_fir
EIFS, ACM, pheon appurtenance traditionalistic link
beplaster

windows
ebony film Marvin culminating

Doors
fading doors: la snack bar

upcountry Finishes
cabinetry and tradition woodwork: crystallization Cabinets
surround coverings: douglas true_fir
weekly newspaper emanative Warmboard irrepressible
boundary condition and fence flag bushveld engrave Gunmetal

plumbing_system
larder plug Axor Citterio
head bath sink Lacava Cube

vim
Photovoltaic scheme fact power Systems