FORMA introduces: The Wraparound House

February 14, 2023
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Wraparound House

The Wraparound House in San Francisco’s Marina District

FORMA is excited to share our recently completed project with Speigel Aihara Workshop (SAW) and Heidi Kim of White Space Design. This Spanish Revival-style home in San Francisco has been given a 21st-century makeover. 

Wraparound House

AWARD | 2021 California Home & Design Residential Build Award

When transforming this Marina-style 1931 home, innovative engineering and precision were the guiding components.
 
The home was brought down to studs and rebuilt. We achieved this by lifting the home on cribbing and replacing the foundation. Through geo-grouting the soil and a thick mat slab, therefore, support was available to go up a level with a deck on top.
 
The home effortlessly floats upward from an extended backyard through a series of terraces and shifts across four levels of vantage points. This further connects the homeowners to the landscape and vast views.

Wraparound House
The Wraparound House Stair is the recipient of a 2021 NAHB BALA Platinum Award. 
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PRESS | Wraparound House featured in METROPOLIS

The homeowners, a couple with three energetic school-aged children, purchased the  2,300-square-foot home in 2015. Their intent was always to renovate but still retain a sense of its character. Like the surrounding houses in San Francisco’s Marina District, it had a red tile roof, arched windows, and interior archways.

Leaving the original facade mostly untouched, the design team tied the new and old spaces together by keeping all of the existing curves and adding more in unexpected places, dubbing the project “Wraparound House.” 

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PRESS | Tour the Wraparound House in Wallpaper Magazine

The Wraparound House program involved updating an existing home, adding space to accommodate group activities and entertaining, and also stabilizing and tackling the land below, which was contaminated and in need of remediation.

Inside, a central staircase becomes not only a connector between levels but also a sculptural accent. A second, exterior stair links the different floors via the outdoor terraces. This access and relationship to the outdoors takes place on every level, in different ways; connecting the indoors with the garden, and allowing for long vistas of the bay and the Golden Gate Bridge were a key part of the clients’ brief. 

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Wraparound House

Want to see more? Take a virtual tour here!