Downtown San Francisco Residences

The design of this home was in response to a young couple looking to create their ideal downtown San Francisco loft, a space that plays host to a multifaceted lifestyle for entertaining and showcasing of art. The spatial constraints of adapting to an existing concrete volume required particular material nuances to define programmatic boundaries. Whereas the conventional housing typology compartmentalizes functions, the typology of the loft is less defined, less confined, and thus less literal. Its characteristic is suggestive and less dogmatic, and is rather implicated by the relationships between architectural elements- the planar, the curvilinear, and the volumetric. To further accentuate the elemental qualities within the loft, various degrees of transparency / opacity were employed to refract and reflect the lighting scheme, resulting in a cohesive space that makes its design approach legible.