Selected Housing Experience
I.V. SRO, Isla Vista, CA
Fifty affordable, single room occupancy units around a central, secure courtyard with common facilities that include meeting rooms, kitchen and counseling offices.
Schematic Design 2010.
Palms Block, Los Angeles, CA
Redevelopment of a residential urban block creating a network of elevated courtyard open spaces, shared streets and dwellings that engage the public realm of the street.
Schematic Design 2010.
Form Shift Architectural Ideas Competition, Honoroble Mention, Vancouver, BC
This proposal for sustainable infill housing was the only entry from outside the host country to receive an award in this international competition for ideas to implement the city's Eco-Density Charter. 2009
Yanonali Court, Santa Barbara, CA
A mix of one to three bedroom LEED town homes linked by common courtyards and a central shared court, all scaled to fit within a sensitive residential neighborhood. Completed 2008.
Portland Courtyard Housing Competition, Honor Award, Portland, OR
This winning submission proposed six design principles as the basis for family-friendly infill housing: Fee Simple Ownership, Neighborhood Compatibility, Open Space Hierarchy, Security / Privacy, Affordability by Design and Sustainability. 2007.
The Villas, Santa Barbara County, CA
Sixteen infill residences grouped around a central community green on 1.5 acres. The one to four bedroom units include six affordable homes, all with private entries, patios and rear yards. Completed 2007.
Atlantic Ave. Work-Force Housing, Long Beach, CA
Infill workforce housing that incorporates 45 two and three-bedroom town homes in a series of urban courtyards which recall the architecture of Irving Gill.
Schematic Design 2006.
Promenade 425, Los Angeles, CA
The Promenade 425 at Play Vista forms 69 modernist loft-style flats and townhouses around a large landscaped central courtyard, all over a basement-parking garage.
Schematic Design 2006.
West Oaks Family Apartments, Santa Rosa, CA
A 53-unit affordable housing development for Burbank Housing Development Corporation. Completed 1999.
City Mews, San Francisco, CA
24, three and one half -story wood frame townhouses in San Francisco's SOMA district. A mere 13 feet wide, these urban homes take advantage of their vertical volumes.
Completed 1998.
Round Walk Village, Petaluma, CA
A 129-unit affordable housing development for Burbank Housing Development Corporation. Completed 1996.
Selected Mixed-Use Experience
De La Vina Live/Work, Santa Barbara, CA
Schematic Design & Entitlements for a 21 unit/acre live-work infill development utilizing vertical tandem parking lifts to provide 29% site open space.
Current.
Mayfair Live/Work, Ventura, CA
Urban infill containing 18, three story, two bedroom town homes with ground floor flex live/ work spaces on .4 acres. Schematic design & design development.
Completed 2006.
622 Anacapa, Santa Barbara, CA
Downtown mixed use containing 5-townhomes with work at home spaces, 7,000 sq. ft. of commercial space and 2 penthouse flats. Schematic design through entitlements.
Completed 2005.
Chapala Lofts, Santa Barbara, CA
Urban mixed use containing 17-loft style flats, 10,000 sq. ft. of commercial space and a 33 space parking garage. Schematic design & design development.
Completed 2002
6th Street Live - Work, San Francisco, CA
Nineteen live - work lofts on a South of Market urban infill site. Schematic design through construction documents. Completed 2001.
98 Ocean Avenue, San Francisco, CA
A 32,000 sq. ft. mixed-use building with ground floor retail and 20 rental apartments, schematic design. Completed 2000.
TODCO SRO/Mixed Use, San Francisco, CA
This mid-rise design contained single room occupancy housing over ground floor social service offices and community meeting facilities. Schematic Design1999
533 2nd Street, San Francisco, CA
Renovation of a historic three story brick warehouse in San Francisco’s South of Market district into ten new live/work artist studios. Schematic design through construction documents. Completed 1994.
Greenhouse, Kiev, Ukraine
This headquarters for Greenpeace International, consists of ground floor offices with 15 staff apartments on three levels above, all fashioned within a historic 17th century structure. Schematic Design and Design Development 1991.