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Mondrian's Window
Mondrian's Window
San Francisco, CA, United States
Project of the Day on Jul 31, 2000
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Mondrian's Window
San Francisco, CA, United States
Project of the Day on Jul 31, 2000
This house pays homage to architect William Wurster’s notion that, in San Francisco houses, it is not about what you are looking into, but what you are looking out to. The infill renovation project is located on a lot narrower than the typical San Francisco 25-foot parcel. The addition to the original one-bedroom house, once the home of writers Charles Caldwell Dobie and Ruth Teiser, is designed for two artists. The rear towering addition overlooks the Bay, representing a creative front where artwork is carried out, while the existing residence allocated to routine functions faces the street.
Although the compression of the site did not lend itself to the curvaceous geometry typical of Form4 Architecture, the addition remains invisible from the street while endowing the existing residence with more breathing room for everyday functions. The addition symbolizes architecture of linearity and sequence, where all of the rooms have a sightline, progressively more expansive as one moves higher, overlooking the Bay. The rear elevation in this instance forms the primary façade, which is rich in explicit formal references, including the Dutch cabinet maker/architect Gerrit Rietveld in its volumetric composition, and Dutch painter Piet Mondrian in the subdivision of the glazing and its coloring, and for whom the project is named.
Although the compression of the site did not lend itself to the curvaceous geometry typical of Form4 Architecture, the addition remains invisible from the street while endowing the existing residence with more breathing room for everyday functions. The addition symbolizes architecture of linearity and sequence, where all of the rooms have a sightline, progressively more expansive as one moves higher, overlooking the Bay. The rear elevation in this instance forms the primary façade, which is rich in explicit formal references, including the Dutch cabinet maker/architect Gerrit Rietveld in its volumetric composition, and Dutch painter Piet Mondrian in the subdivision of the glazing and its coloring, and for whom the project is named.
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