We’re currently developing some ideas for a rooftop with stunning 360 degree views of San Francisco, shown here looking out at the Mission, Noe Valley, Twin Peaks and Sutro Tower. We’re navigating SF rooftop regulations, egress, and our infamous microclimates.
More to come…
March 07, 2010, 4:30pm Comments
Caleb Duarte, an Oakland-based chicano artist, has been working with themes of “home”. His latest project is a mix of sculptor and performance called “Casas Voladoras” (Flying houses).
Casas Voladoras is an ongoing collaborative performance art project focusing on experiences of global migration, mobility, the moving monument and oral histories specifically dealing with communities and recent immigrants from the Americas. It is a one-week intensive workshop using art and performance, ritual and moving theater for the empowerment in telling our own stories.
Performance art workshops will be held at the Red Poppy Art House in San Francisco, spring 2010.
His earlier works evoke a sense of emotion attached to the idea of “home”. He uses a mix of hand rendering and built pieces made from found wood, concrete, and gypsum board.
KQED SPARK did a segment on Caleb in 2007: click here.
December 15, 2009, 5:33pm Comments
The power of architecture to change the world is an idea that many a design student believes in. Recently, an inspirational speech given by Professor Irma Ramirez at U.C. Berkeley regarding her and her students’ work on a Low Cost Sustainable Tijuana Housing Prototype, is helping to reinforce that belief. The prototype was built using local accessible materials and passive heating/cooling systems at a minimal cost while being socially responsive to the communities’ needs; a poverty stricken immigrant population on the Mexico-US border.
Reminiscent of Samuel Mockbee’s Rural Studio, the Tijuana project has an even tighter construction budget of < $1000, and is limited to using materials and building systems that local residents can reproduce and utilize according to their own needs.
The design is an academic collaboration with architecture students at Cal Poly Pomona, the John T. Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies, Corazon (a local non-profit), and families in Tijuana, Mexico. Their work won them the NCARB prize in 2008.
See the presentation boards here
December 04, 2009, 7:25am Comments
Tea Display
Pastry case
Mahogany bar top
Some more Leland Tea construction photos. Post-completion photos coming soon…
August 14, 2009, 1:32pm Comments
Objectified is the new film from Gary Hustwit, director of Helvetica. It looks to be a promising documentary on designers, their objects, the commodification of those objects and their impact on our everyday lives.
P.S: I’m still in love with my iphone…
June 12, 2009, 12:15pm Comments
