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Noe Valley House / IwamotoScott Architecture

Valentina Villa — Mon, 24 Apr 2017 09:00:00 +0000

This new four level house on a steep street in San Francisco’s Noe Valley neighborhood is designed to respond to opportunities presented by its site and situation, including: the morphology of neighboring infill urban fabric, and possibilities of a walkout rear yard and distant views in the downhill direction to the east and north. The house’s interior is organized around a central lightwell and stairwell. The lightwell is positioned in relation to an existing lightwell of the neighboring house, Situated at the heart of the house, the lightwell and stairwell act together to bring in natural light and views to the sky. They also become the spatial hinge between living/dining and kitchen/family on the main living level, and between kids' and parents' bedrooms on the upper sleeping level.

City View Garage in the Miami Design District / IwamotoScott

Igor Fracalossi — Sun, 24 May 2015 13:00:55 +0000

IwamotoScott was commissioned, together with New York based architects Leong Leong and Southern California based artist John Baldessari, by Dacra and LVMH Real estate to design a portion of the City View Garage in Miami's Design District.

Heavybit Industries / IwamotoScott Architecture

Jonathan Alarcón — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 01:00:00 +0000

Heavybit Industries is a new community workspace designed for early stage companies making cloud developer products. The Heavybit program curates, fosters and promotes innovation, solution-finding, and business develpment in this relatively new branch of computing through invited presentations, public events, education, advising, and inter-developer collaboration. The client brief requested that the existing former warehouse be transformed into a collaborative workspace that includes on the two upper floors an open array of desks, comfortable and intimate meeting areas, bar height workspace and conference rooms, and on the first floor a large kitchen, collective dining area for daily catered lunches that could double for speaker presentations, conference room, bike storage, and informal work areas. The client also wished to retain the industrial character of the building and to emphasize its physical and vintage industrial qualities as a conceptual contrast to the ephemerality of the cloud.

PS House / Iwamoto Scott

Nico Saieh — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

PS House offers a way of densifying the inner block of an already fairly dense San Francisco neighborhood (North Beach), while bringing an unexpected degree of spaciousness, natural light and connection with the outside to a small 1200sf urban house. It is a speculative project aimed at maximizing the potential of an existing dilapidated structure at the rear of the property, which was demolished but whose small footprint could not be expanded. The overall site’s void space is strategized in terms of natural light and ventilation, and includes three spaces: the courtyard separating the new house from the existing Edwardian building fronting on Powell Street; an exterior entrance passageway that connects this courtyard to the street; and an upper level south-facing deck. The design of the entry passageway seeks to heighten the experience of threshold between city and house. Opposite PS House’s main façade is a new wood screen that lines the courtyard. The screen’s slats are angled so as to maintain privacy between the new house and existing decks at the rear of the front building.