Hollywood Hills House
Los Angeles, CA, 2019
forest <> house
Northern California, 2015
Valley Ridge Residence
San Francisco, CA, 2021
CHROMA
Tucson, AZ, 2020
Victoria
Berkeley, CA, 2014
Octavia M+N
San Francisco, CA, 2005, 2020
All Residential projects
project
year
typology
location
status
Hollywood Hills House
2019
Residential
Los Angeles, CA
completed
Set on a rare, large vacant site in the Hollywood Hills, this 3,750-square-foot house is conceived as a series of experiential “chambers,” rooms and outdoor spaces, each designed to heighten their spatial, material and chromatic elements.
forest <> house
2015
Residential
Northern California
completed
Our long-time clients sought to create a private retreat hidden in the forested hills of Northern California, a house where an extended community of family, friends, and colleagues could gather.
Valley Ridge Residence
2021
Residential
San Francisco, CA
completed
Challenged with taking a five story spec home and infusing a feel of elegance and the charm of a classic San Francisco Victorian, ENVELOPE worked closely with the talented interior design team at the Office of Charles de Lisle to create a family home and sanctuary with the dual purpose of hosting events at a variety of scales.
CHROMA
2020
Mixed Use, Retail, Residential
Tucson, AZ
ongoing
CHROMA, a new mixed use development in the heart of Midtown Tucson, brings a dynamic infusion of commercial, office, residential, and community uses to a changing neighborhood.
Victoria
2014
Residential
Berkeley, CA
completed
With a nod to Gordon Matta-Clark, this old Victorian home's transformation centers on a diagonal swath of space, slicing from front door to rear yard to reveal formerly hidden spaces and the raw beauty of the Douglas fir structure and flooring. Ancillary zones along this slice are rendered in a matte gray, highlighting the chroma and texture of the objects of everyday life.
Octavia M+N
2005, 2020
Residential
San Francisco, CA
ongoing
Set along Octavia Boulevard, lots M+N are among the most challenging of the 22 development parcels created when the Central Freeway was removed. The 120-foot-wide parcels are just 18 feet deep, defying typical housing configurations.
Crane Court Residence
2010
Residential
California
completed
The Crane Court Residence solves the puzzle of our client's desire for an inward-facing private courtyard house situated on a significantly sloping site with compelling outward facing views. ENVELOPE created a courtyard house that is stepped to conform to the sloping site, with vertical surfaces opened to engage the interior living spaces with the experience of surrounding landscape. The result is a house that steps gracefully down the hillside with an elevated rooftop terrace, and living spaces featuring views of a distant valley, a prominent ridgeline, and an intimate undercanopy of Live Oaks.
San Luis Road Residence
2008
Residential
Berkeley, CA
completed
A house for a structural engineer and his family in the Berkeley hills, the project expresses structural elegance in the cantilever of the new top floor master bedroom. The design seeks to open the spatial relationships to the surrounding site: to an entry courtyard at the front, to a garden at the base and the kitchen and to the expansive bay view at the back.
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Washington Street Residence
2008
Residential
San Francisco, CA
completed
This home for an art collecting family was shaped by two primary design parameters: make no visible alterations to the house’s traditional front facade while transforming the interior into a modern open living space that integrates the client’s extensive collection of contemporary art. Through a careful coordination of artworks embedded within the architecture, the design seeks to create a heightened level of engagement by blurring the line between normal living and art experience.
Clipper Street Residence
2007
Residential
San Francisco, CA
completed
In 2005, a design savvy skateboard couple enlisted ENVELOPE to renovate a tattered Victorian duplex — two stacked flats with a typical series of dark, cellular rooms — in San Francisco’s Noe Valley neighborhood. The renovation design conceives of the home as two distinct worlds sculpted to fit two uses: a surprisingly eclectic upstairs flat for living, and a more matter-of-fact lower level creative studio that opens up to the garden.
Pacific Avenue Flat
2001
Residential
San Francisco, CA
completed
In response to the often foggy, windy microclimate of the Pacific Heights neighborhood in San Francisco, we designed an interior courtyard space at the center of this new penthouse addition. This space links the family room, view deck, playroom, tree deck and a guest bedroom suite by creating an interwoven matrix of interior and exterior spaces. This matrix of spaces blurs the distinction between inside and out and provides the surprise of sky, trees, wind, water and light to the previously closed, cellular flat.
Los Altos Residence
2000
Residential
Los Altos, CA
completed
The Los Altos House, urban in language and sensibility, both exists in a suburban context and actively erases this context by replacing the inhabitants’ glimpses of suburbia with views of the natural landscape. Designed using the Japanese garden design strategy of shakkei, or borrowed landscape, the section and siting of the building work together to screen the suburban “middle ground,” pulling the distant views of the Santa Cruz Mountains into the fore. With this strategy, the distant landscape becomes the fourth wall of the primary living and sleeping spaces, blending domesticity with an ever-changing sense of nature.
