C-Through House / Klopf Architecture
Conceived of as a C-shaped house with a small private courtyard and a large private rear yard, this new house maximizes the floor area available to build on this smaller Palo Alto lot.
Conceived of as a C-shaped house with a small private courtyard and a large private rear yard, this new house maximizes the floor area available to build on this smaller Palo Alto lot.
Gustave Carlson Design is proud to be selected as the design team to renovate and add on to this Palo Alto Eichler House. Retaining the iconic mid-century modern style is paramount for the new vision …
The house resembles a jewel box: small, quiet, and unassuming on the outside, rich and expansive on the inside.
The Edgewood House is designed for a young Deaf family, who desired an expanded open plan that incorporates Deaf-Space, creating ample transparency throughout the home, where vision and touch are a primary means of spatial awareness and orientation.
This 62,000-square-foot, ground-up Visa office development is a departure from Visa’s typical campus project because of its location in a neighborhood of single-family homes and condominiums.
The architecture on this residence for a young couple is a study in strong simple composition and materiality with an emphasis on craft. The massing defines solid and void, captures natural light, and connects the indoors with the landscape, seeking to ‘experience the outdoors from within.’
The goal was to modernize and brighten what was a cramped and compartmentalized 1960s Brown and Kaufman home. Completed in two phases, several interior walls were first removed to open up the living space, bring in more natural light, and improve the overall flow.
A young couple approached Studio VARA to design a new ground-up residence for their busy family of five on a prominent yet petite corner lot in Old Palo Alto.