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Dolores Heights Residence in San Francisco
October 27, 2023
Design: jones | haydu
Location: San Francisco, California, USA
Photos © Matthew Millman
Dolores Heights Residence, USA
Located in San Francisco’s Dolores Heights neighborhood, this home was a collaboration between Jones | Haydu and Kevin Sawyers of Sawyers Design, who is also part owner of the Dolores Heights Residence.
Kevin and his husband wished to remodel and expand their existing earthquake cottage that had been added onto piecemeal over the years, transforming these awkwardly connected rooms into an open, harmonious space.
Given the existing footprint covered much of the lot, the goal was to make the most of the house’s relationship to this unique site.
The circulation for the site and house is a straight axis, interacting with the building’s forms as they ascend to the main entrance. Continuing at the interior, one’s experience along this axis is always anchored on the downhill end by Sutro Tower, and on the uphill end by a magnificent Monterey cypress tree.
The forms of the 3,180-square-foot house nest with each other, highlighted by their material palette of cedar, standing seam metal, and cementitious panels.
These forms, along with the interior palette, create rooms within a wide-open plan. The crescendo of forms occurs at the front, nodding to quintessential San Francisco vernacular architecture.
An “inverted” Bay window box cantilevers eight feet from the facade highlighting three experiences of the “urban forest”. Below is an exterior fire pit for the forest floor.
Inside, the box frames a view of the “trunk” level. Above, a roof deck extends the living room, allowing an experience of the “canopy” level. At this deck the backdrop is that almost child-like expression of home, a gable.
Dolores Heights Residence in San Francisco, California – Building Information
Architect: jones | haydu – https://www.linkedin.com/company/jones-haydu/
Jones | Haydu design team
Hulett Jones, Design Principal in Charge
Paul Haydu, Principal
Grace Leung, Project Architect
Sawyers Design team
Kevin Sawyers
Project Team
Architecture: Jones | Haydu
Interior Design: Sawyers Design
Contractor: Jeff King and Co
Structural Engineer: Strandberg Engineering
Mechanical Engineer: Design/Build
Electrical Engineer: Design/Build
Geotechnical Engineer: Rockridge Geotechnical
Historic: Left Coast Architectural History
Brands/Products
1. Doors and Windows : Western Windows Systems, Series 670
2. Cable Railing : Umili
3. Floor tile: Mosa
4. Plumbing Faucets : Graff
5. Pedestal Sinks: Blu Bathworks
6. Kitchen Chandelier: Sogni Di Cristalo
7. Paint: Benjamin Moore
8. Wood Flooring: Tulip
9. Stone at baths: Calacatta Vagli
10. Stone at kitchen: Quartzite, infinity white
11. Kitchen Faucet: Riobel Mythic
12. Cabinetry: Custom design, built by Rick Robbins
Photography: Matthew Millman
Dolores Heights Residence, San Francisco, California images / information received 271023
Location:San Francisco, CA, United States of America
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