Farmers First
Rural Alabama, 2022 - Ongoing
The French Laundry
Yountville, CA, 2015, 2018
Kindred
Various, 2016
North Showrooms
Brooklyn, NY + Toronto, ON, 2018
Trap Table
Berkeley, CA, 2013
Park Tower
San Francisco, CA, 2018
All Deployable projects
project
year
typology
location
status
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.
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.
Kindred
2016
Aside, Fabrication, Public Space
Various
completed
Kindred is a re-configurable, re-deployable planter-seating system composed of three modules and designed to add visual and functional dimension to multi-purpose open space.
North Showrooms
2018
Retail
Brooklyn, NY + Toronto, ON
completed
For the launch of Focals, a new line of smart glasses, North asked for a scalable system that could translate a complex customer journey into a gracious, intuitive experience. Adaptability was key.
Trap Table
2013
Aside, Fabrication
Berkeley, CA
completed
Designed, prototyped and fabricated in our shop, the Trap Table leverages the tessellating ability of half hexagons to create a system capable of a multitude of configurations.
Park Tower
2018
Activation, Public Space
San Francisco, CA
design
An exploration of public space, Park Tower is a dynamic lighting installation attuned to daily rhythms, its program and connections ebb and flow, day to night, weekday to weekend, through a variety of modular interventions and lighting engagements.
CMY Saw Horses
2013
Aside, Furniture
Berkeley, CA
completed
CMY saw horse tables are available in cyan, magenta and yellow leg dip. Fabricated out of hickory hardwood, these saw horses pay homage to classic work-shop saw horses, but simplify and minimize joinery to emphasize the graphic quality of the iconic saw horse shape. Tables were designed and fabricated at ENVELOPE, in Berkeley, California. Limited production run. Please email info@envelopead.com for pricing and general inquiries. Local pick up required.
Crane Court Residence
2010
Residential
California
completed
The Crane Court Residence solves the puzzle of our client's desire for an inward-facing private courtyard house situated on a significantly sloping site with compelling outward facing views. ENVELOPE created a courtyard house that is stepped to conform to the sloping site, with vertical surfaces opened to engage the interior living spaces with the experience of surrounding landscape. The result is a house that steps gracefully down the hillside with an elevated rooftop terrace, and living spaces featuring views of a distant valley, a prominent ridgeline, and an intimate undercanopy of Live Oaks.
Slow Food Nation - Coffee
2008
Hospitality, Cultural
San Francisco, CA
completed
Slow Food Nation, an organization promoting local food and traditional cooking, invited us to design the Coffee Pavillion for their Slow Food Nation Taste Hall event in San Francisco. Three sheer voile fabric enclosed Coffee Halls created an oasis of calm within the bustle of the larger event, allowing for a more intimate coffee tasting and learning experience. Guided by the ethos of reuse, building materials were recycled from past projects and anything newly constructed was sourced sustainably and designed to allow for easy future reuse.
Los Altos Residence
2000
Residential
Los Altos, CA
completed
The Los Altos House, urban in language and sensibility, both exists in a suburban context and actively erases this context by replacing the inhabitants’ glimpses of suburbia with views of the natural landscape. Designed using the Japanese garden design strategy of shakkei, or borrowed landscape, the section and siting of the building work together to screen the suburban “middle ground,” pulling the distant views of the Santa Cruz Mountains into the fore. With this strategy, the distant landscape becomes the fourth wall of the primary living and sleeping spaces, blending domesticity with an ever-changing sense of nature.
