LAKE
Oakland, CA, 2021
Radhaus
San Francisco, CA, 2018
Farmers First
Rural Alabama, 2022 - Ongoing
Urban Alchemy Oasis
San Francisco, CA, 2022
Plant Trees
Planet Earth, ongoing
Intentional Shift
Bayview-Hunters Point, CA, 2022
PROXY
San Francisco, CA, 2011 - Ongoing
The French Laundry
Yountville, CA, 2015, 2018
Hunters Point Shoreline
San Francisco, CA, 2017
2214
Berkeley, CA, 2015 - 2017
NOW Hunters Point
San Francisco, CA, 2013 - 2022
The Octavia Project
San Francisco, CA, 2021
Aether Apparel
San Francisco, CA, 2013
All Collaborative projects
project
year
typology
location
status
LAKE
2021
Hospitality, Public Space, Retail, Cultural, Adaptive Reuse
Oakland, CA
design
LAKE envisions a thriving urban promenade filled with Black-owned and Black-centered businesses occupying flexible indoor and outdoor spaces that support gathering, shopping, experiencing, and celebrating Oakland’s vibrant community and culture.
Radhaus
2018
Hospitality, Adaptive Reuse
San Francisco, CA
completed
The proprietors envisioned Radhaus as a contemporary gathering place pairing the convivial, communal essence of a German beer hall with contemporary interpretations of traditional Bavarian cuisine.
Farmers First
2022 - Ongoing
Agriculture, Adaptive Reuse, Food System Transformation
Rural Alabama
ongoing
Farmers First reimagines our food system in a way that centers the needs of farmers and the environment, converting former poultry production facilities into greenhouses that grow food efficiently, year-round, and at a low cost.
Clipper Street Residence
2007
Residential
San Francisco, CA
completed
In 2005, a design savvy skateboard couple enlisted ENVELOPE to renovate a tattered Victorian duplex — two stacked flats with a typical series of dark, cellular rooms — in San Francisco’s Noe Valley neighborhood. The renovation design conceives of the home as two distinct worlds sculpted to fit two uses: a surprisingly eclectic upstairs flat for living, and a more matter-of-fact lower level creative studio that opens up to the garden.
Urban Alchemy Oasis
2022
Activation, Public Space, Adaptive Reuse
San Francisco, CA
completed
Working closely with the Urban Alchemy team in San Francisco, we transformed a blighted city corner into a park where adults can rest, play games, and enjoy free coffee, tea, and water in a safe, clean environment.
Plant Trees
ongoing
Activation, Public Space
Planet Earth
ongoing
As a gift to our beloved Earth and to us all, we initiated planting hundreds of trees to start out each year!
Intentional Shift
2022
Aside, Cultural, Interim Use
Bayview-Hunters Point, CA
completed
To celebrate a decade of activation at NOW Hunters Point, ENVELOPE and Studio O partnered with Kristin Damrow & Company to create a site-specific, community-driven dance performance and art installation called Intentional Shift.
PROXY
2011 - Ongoing
Activation, Public Space, Cultural, Adaptive Reuse
San Francisco, CA
ongoing
PROXY is a temporary open space activating two vacant parcels in the heart of San Francisco’s Hayes Valley neighborhood.
The French Laundry
2015, 2018
Hospitality
Yountville, CA
completed
To mark its 20th anniversary The French Laundry undertook an extensive renovation of the renowned restaurant’s historic property.
Hunters Point Shoreline
2017
Public Space
San Francisco, CA
completed
The Hunters Point Shoreline is a new public open space born out of a far-reaching public, interim use, and community engagement strategy for the former Hunters Point Power Plant site.
2214
2015 - 2017
Aside, Exhibition, Cultural
Berkeley, CA
completed
2214 is a curatorial overlay to our practice, an experiment exploring the possibilities that arise when practitioners from divergent areas of interest come together to consider a set of common questions.
NOW Hunters Point
2013 - 2022
Activation, Public Space
San Francisco, CA
completed
NOW Hunters Point takes the practice of urban activation and applies it as an iterative, community-led visioning process to the Pacific Gas and Electric Hunters Point site. In the 10 years that NOW Hunters Point had been operational, it hosted over 216 activations (from job training to movie nights, to even a circus) and engaged with over 30,000 visitors.
The Octavia Project
2021
Activation, Public Space, Cultural
San Francisco, CA
ongoing
The Octavia Project seeks to create people-centered spaces where people gather, form new connections, and develop new ideas and relationships. Our vision of the project revolves around three core concepts; Pathway (Marking Memory), Forum (Building Community) and Gateway (Dreaming the Future).
Aether Apparel
2013
Retail, Interim Use
San Francisco, CA
completed
Aether Apparel, an online retailer that specializes in design-conscious technical outerwear, chose our PROXY project in Hayes Valley as the site of its first stand-alone store. Aether wanted a striking physical presence with the unconventionality of a pop-up venue. They were drawn to our use of shipping containers at PROXY as highly customized modular units that are built to be durable rather than disposable, bold instead of drab.
Expanded Field
2011
Aside, Exhibition, Cultural
San Francisco, CA
completed
Expanded Field, the book, and the installation from which it evolved, is both an expression of our passion for installation work and an exploration of the overlapping territories of contemporary practice.
John McNeil Studio
2012
Office
Berkeley, CA
completed
Our longstanding collaboration with John McNeil began with his creative studio’s offices in West Berkeley. A garage door in the workspace rolls up to let in the sun and breeze coming off the bay. The workspace peers into a large, airy kitchen that doubles as entertaining space for clients and colleagues.
The design carries through the feeling of McNeil's family home, a renovated Victorian adjacent to the offices. Comfortable spaces for collaboration are outfitted with furniture and fabrics that defy the conventions of contemporary workplaces.
The offices, home and studio annex together compose a distributed live-work complex nestled within Berkeley’s urban edge.
Delfina
2000
Hospitality
San Francisco, CA
completed
The cuisine of this infamous Mission District restaurant is elegant yet modest, based on the traditions of Tuscan cooking techniques but executed with a clarity of intent and a focus on the essence of the ingredients.
The architecture reflects this sensibility using a rich pallet of wrapping Jarrah hardwoods for the floor, built-in seating and bar elements. The red wood creates a warm, tactile space in which a number of zinc tables are set under a field of custom floating lights. These elements form a stage for the performance of dining, where the participants are simultaneously spectacle and audience.
