The project proposes a new typology home: a home gallery. This combines a semi-public art gallery and a home to two collectors who seek redefine your lifestyle, in conjunction with art. Customers, a virologist and a mathematician, reflects only the work of contemporary female artists and wanted to share his collection with others. His request was to a house where they could move through a semi-public gallery to the more domestic. The gallery at street level hosts exhibitions of his private collection and others.
The land is located in a neighboring sector to South Park, one of the few public spaces in San Francisco. This particular urban condition helped define abstract architectural language linking the building with its environment and improving its boundary condition. Inside, the structure is enhanced to subdivide the space and is painted black. But in the facade facing the park, the orthogonal frame dissolves and becomes more organic, emulating the morphology of the park and its trees. This operation involves the balconies of the two upper floors. The geometry of the solar screen, resulting from a parametric study, reappears in the deck floor of the building.
The roof of the house responds to the mild climate of San Francisco and variable with the ability to protect from the cold and at the same time open to the sunlight and the breeze. This space has a green roof with drought-resistant plants and perforated with skylights to bring light to interior spaces. Through the openings, the gallery home and respond to climate and solar orientation, natural lighting up their premises and making it more efficient.
