Farmers First
Rural Alabama, 2022 - Ongoing
JMS Annex
Berkeley, CA, 2013
PROXY
San Francisco, CA, 2011 - Ongoing
Kindred
Various, 2016
North Showrooms
Brooklyn, NY + Toronto, ON, 2018
NOW Hunters Point
San Francisco, CA, 2013 - 2022
Aether Apparel
San Francisco, CA, 2013
Trap Table
Berkeley, CA, 2013
Octavia M+N
San Francisco, CA, 2005, 2020
All Systems 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.
JMS Annex
2013
Office, Cultural, Adaptive Reuse
Berkeley, CA
completed
When an industrial building near their Berkeley office became available, the creative agency John McNeil Studio asked Envelope to turn it into the ultimate flex space: a place for video shoots, lectures, strategy sessions, art openings, and much more.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Octavia M+N
2005, 2020
Residential
San Francisco, CA
ongoing
Set along Octavia Boulevard, lots M+N are among the most challenging of the 22 development parcels created when the Central Freeway was removed. The 120-foot-wide parcels are just 18 feet deep, defying typical housing configurations.
San Luis Road Residence
2008
Residential
Berkeley, CA
completed
A house for a structural engineer and his family in the Berkeley hills, the project expresses structural elegance in the cantilever of the new top floor master bedroom. The design seeks to open the spatial relationships to the surrounding site: to an entry courtyard at the front, to a garden at the base and the kitchen and to the expansive bay view at the back.
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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.
Pizzeria Delfina Burlingame
2014
Hospitality
Burlingame, CA
completed
For this first Pizzeria Delfina location outside of San Francisco, we devised a nuanced strategy that allowed the qualities unique to the original pizzerias to flourish — an intimacy between patron and cook, an open kitchen that serves to energize and entertain the dining area, and a heightened level of service — while featuring a Sirron Norris mural above the main dining area, and adding a sizable patio to cater to Burlingame's warmer climate and strong outdoor dining culture.
