Flip House / Fougeron Architecture

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San Francisco, United States
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2012
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  VELUX Group, Delta Light, Fleetwood, Flynn & Enslow, Kenwood Cabinetry, NorCal Coating

Text description provided by the architects. The Challenge. To reconnect an erratic San Francisco home to its striking landscape, light, and views and transform its confusing program with a new modernist aesthetic.

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The Design. A complete flip of the home’s façade and interior spaces that reinvents its typology and captures all advantages of its natural and urban site.

Flip House / Fougeron Architecture - Table, Chair
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Like many San Francisco homes, this one poorly integrated its many levels with each other and with its sloping topography and solar orientation. Reversing its reading, we recast the back of the house as its primary façade with a faceted, custom-built glass wall. Divided into three vertical panels that push in and out, this dynamic prism brings animating light and spectacular views to the communal living spaces, now placed at the rear. Bedrooms were flipped to the front.

Flip House / Fougeron Architecture - Sofa, Windows
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We also rationalized the circulation, replacing disconnected staircases with one rear stair that smoothly links all three levels and the garden below. The street-level entry now leads to a generous foyer that is open to this staircase and to a guest room/den. The open plan of the second floor allows the kitchen and living room space to look down into this den and outward to the striking city, Bay, and garden vistas beyond.

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Cite: "Flip House / Fougeron Architecture" 10 Dec 2012. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/304115/flip-house-fougeron-architecture> ISSN 0719-8884

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