The project is a renovation of an existing family support center for Home-SAFE Early Head Start, a division of Vista Del Mar Child & Family Services. The facility provides child care, counseling, and parent education for underserved children in the Los Angeles and Hollywood areas. The project utilized a $300,000 federal grant to modernize two adjoined buildings. The primary design challenge was to create one unified design aesthetic out of two vastly different architectural styles while staying within the very limited budget. The solution was to strip back the buildings to their purest forms and add a playful patterned screen that unites the two structures and provides protection and privacy to the enclosed outdoor playground area. In order to stretch the project funds, a perforated aluminum screen system was developed that makes use of the discarded material from the cut panels to further expand the pattern across the building. This zero-waste design uses the pieces cut away from the panels to compose an inverse pattern on the existing stucco walls.
Envisioned as a singular continuous, flowing expression, this family estate links architecture, interior design, art and landscape into an integrated whole. Unified around the central “home base” living area, views radiate across several reflecting pools to gardens and the nearby Santa Cruz Mountains. The residence includes three auxiliary buildings and extensive outdoor living areas, but the subdued sophistication of the design helps dissolve the home into its verdant site.
Santa Clara Square embodies a design vision unique for a commercial development, featuring an array of carefully developed components: pedestrian-friendly open space throughout; a variety of neighborhoods, ranging in character from formal to meandering; buildings that frame space, with arcades that weave the structure into the environment; lively amenity buildings that punctuate the landscape; and parking for 8,000 vehicles, sited so as not to diminish the cohesiveness of the campus.
Nestled at the end of a cul-de-sac in a private southern California beach community, this house occupies a site with spectacular vistas of the Pacific Ocean. The compound is entered along a fifty-foot long sustainable-growth hardwood (ipe) wall.
The house is an expansive series of spaces underneath a giant floating horizontal plane which is supported on stone masses, wood walls, and slender steel columns.
A relationship that began in 2016, Feldman Architecture originally connected with Playworks via the website OnePlus, an online platform connecting nonprofits to relevant design professionals providing pro-bono services. Playworks, an organization dedicated to providing ‘better recess’ to schools across the country, wanted an office to reflect the fun philosophy of their company and the dynamic ways in which they engage with not only the Oakland community, but also represent their larger organization as the national headquarters.
Joseph Eichler developed his moderately priced houses for the mass-market starting in 1949. His homes were designed using affordable materials and simple construction techniques. Nearly 70 years later these homes are in need of updating and remodeling an Eichler home today can become an imposing and costly project if you’re not careful. For this project the clients, who had undergone several previous house renovations, were determined to stick with an established budget from the beginning. Klopf Architecture helped them modernize their Eichler with a premium appearance on a reasonable budget.
This addition to the original Anderson School complex creates a bold campus presence that reimagines UCLA’s traditional four-color blended brick and buff-colored cast-stone masonry banding. Transforming a condition long considered an unsightly barrier between the school and the core campus, the design sites the building atop an existing parking structure east of the original complex, framing a new pedestrian plaza and cascading grand stair to the south. The result is a new primary entrance to the school that also serves as a dramatic gateway to UCLA’s North Campus.
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A joint project between the City of Half Moon Bay and the County of San Mateo, the design of the new Half Moon Bay Library honors the region’s agricultural roots and coastal environment while providing a valuable community resource to serve the 270-square-mile area. The challenge was how to satisfy the needs of the growing coastal region (in addition to Half Moon Bay, the library serves 10 other unincorporated communities along the coast, from Montara to Pescadero), while preserving the modest architecture character of Half Moon Bay. The resulting $18.2 million, 22,000-square-foot building strikes a balance a facility large and flexible enough to meet the region’s current and future needs, yet one that responds directly to its physical context and community.
Program: Pediatric orthopedic care facility with an outpatient surgical suite, diagnostic clinic and radiology department, rehabilitation clinic, orthotics and prosthetics manufacturing, patient and family support services, and administrative offices. It also includes an outdoor rehabilitation therapy garden, outdoor gathering/event space, conference space, and subterranean parking garage.
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