Article source: SAW

San Francisco-based Spiegel Aihara Workshop (SAW) has completed the transformative architectural and landscape design of a 1962 home in Mill Valley for a couple and their two young children. The project, known as The Middle Half, dramatically reconfigures the home’s core to create an open, light-flooded interior and direct connection to the landscape. Raw, textured materials like galvanized steel, rough-sawn cedar siding, and cast-in-place concrete define the project and accentuate its unexpected, layered geometries.

“Often when thinking about preserving a thing a structure, an object, a landscape, a city one talks about preserving its ‘heart’ or it’s ‘core.’ But in this case it was the opposite we were trying to preserve the periphery, while completely reimagining the core,” says SAW co-principal Dan Spiegel.

Image Courtesy © Mikiko Kikuyama

• Architects: SAW
• Project: Hillside Home
• Location: Mill Valley, California
• Photography: Mikiko Kikuyama
• Interior Design: Kina Ingersoll
• General Contractor: Perfection Construction
• Structural Engineer: GFDS
• Civil Engineer: Benjamini Associates
• Millwork: Marco Hernandez Custom Cabinetry
• Geotechnical Engineer: Nersi Hemati

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Article source: Feldman Architecture

Paluska is a physical representation of a life well-lived. Sentimental curios sit tucked in corners and atop shelves of records in the living room. Colorful tiles inspired by trips abroad line the bathroom walls. The client, an accomplished restaurant owner and former manager of the band PHISH, came to our firm with a vision. As the son of a furniture maker and a carpenter himself, his desire for a hard-wearing, well-crafted, eclectic abode was a deviation from our firm’s typical aesthetic of cleaner lines and more modern detailing, inspiring a melding of traditional and contemporary styles in this Mill Valley home.

Image Courtesy © Paul Dyer

• Architects: Feldman Architecture
• Project: Paluska
• Location: Mill Valley, California
• Photography: Paul Dyer
• Design Architect: Feldman Architecture
• Architect of Record: Tristan Warren
• Landscape Design: Robert Trachtenburg, Garden Architecture
• Total Size: 3,700sqft
• Main House: 2,785 SF
• Garage: 489 SF
• Casita: 455 SF
• Completed: October 2016

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