On most days, I’m just as likely to take the exterior stairs as the interior stairs to move between rooms. The rounded edges of the garden path play in the perpetual motion game too, forming a scooter/bike track the rounded corners of the family room gradually guide you out to the terrace the master bathroom is conceived of as a thickened window for the bedroom, balcony-like and perched over the bay. Says Spiegel “It sort of works as a gradient: the spaces are more public, more outward looking at the top, and more private, more inward looking at the bottom. Each level of the house has a different relationship to the outdoors – at the roof, the main focus was highlighting the distant views to the bay and the Golden Gate Bridge the interconnected kids bedrooms enjoy direct access to the yard for active play at the Living Room, the rear yard was designed to be viewed from above as a verdant backdrop to outdoor dining and at the primary suite, the glass walls are a major source of light for the bedroom, while providing privacy. The central interior stair forms the core of the house when viewed in section, but an exterior stair also connects the levels via the outdoor terraces. This also enabled a tactical redistribution of load and shear bearing walls throughout the ground floor, opening up possibilities for unusual spatial configurations such as the three interlocking, interconnected kids bedrooms side-by-side within a 25-foot width. In excavating the top layer of soil, it became feasible to lift the entire house, and to modernize the entire foundation with a relatively thick mat slab. The site in particular is in a liquefaction zone, in which sand and silt would take on the characteristics of a liquid during an earthquake. With excavation of the top 4-6 feet of soil necessary for remediation, the architects were also tasked with handling the instability from landfill, which produces differential settling. The Marina neighborhood is known for its basis in landfill, but more recently apparent is the embedded contamination of the soil below, likely from residue released by the former PG&E North Beach Manufactured Gas Plant, which was operational from 1891 until it was damaged in the 1906 earthquake. The work was born of the active homeowners’ desire for more space for their family, but also facilitated by the need to remediate and reclaim the contaminated earth below. The originally three-bedroom Spanish Revival home was expanded both vertically and horizontally to encompass six bedrooms and 4,738 square feet of total interior space, including the garage.
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