1028 Natoma Street
1028 NATOMA STREET
Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects
ARCHITECTS
Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects Inc: Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects
CATEGORY
Housing
LOCATION
San Francisco, CA, USA
PROJECT YEAR
2005
Text description provided by architect.
This project, on a twenty-five-by-eighty-foot lot next to 1022 Natoma Street, continues the investigation of San Francisco infill buildings.
At the street level are parking and entrance lobby; above are four stacked units.
One thickened party wall provides vertical access and a light court.
The other acts as a service zone, condensing kitchens, bathrooms, laundry, and storage behind sliding glass doors.
Floating walls divide the free space in the center, which is finished with a variety of materials all in different shades of white.
The front facade has a bay-window silhouette constructed of horizontal aluminum bar grating, which provides both shading for the southern exposure and a veil shielding the city beyond. The surfaces behind the bay are sheathed in perforated metal.
