INTERSTICE Architects

Rendered View from Across Parking Lot

INTERSTICE Architects presented plans for the Amy’s Drive Thru Restaurant to the Planning Commission of Corte Madera. The project was met with overwhelming support, receiving a unanimous recommendation for the Town Council’s approval, which took place in early June.

http://www.townofcortemadera.org/677/Amys-Drive-Thru

http://www.marinij.com/general-news/20180509/amys-wins-key-approval-for-corte-madera-drive-thru-plan

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2018/05/04/amys-kitchen-petaluma-marin-drive-through-dennys.html

Sustainability Features

Wood Model – Entry View

Wood Model – Highway View

Recycled pallets, zip ties, gloves, Folsom Street and the IA team: it’s time for the San Francisco Street Food Festival!

Come join INTERSTICE Architects in celebrating the final year of the San Francisco Street Food Festival on Folsom Street. IA has designed and led the volunteer effort for the fifth year running, transforming Folsom Street in the Mission neighborhood to a dining district filled with people, food and festivities.

IA’s street furnishings design re-purposes shipping pallets to create banquettes for seating, eating, socializing, dining and drinking.

Thank you to La Cocina, the festival’s organizer, for your community leadership and inspired support of local food!

For more information about the schedule for the day, head over to the SFSFF website. The festival runs from 11 am – 7 pm.

INTERSTICE hosted this esteemed group of renowned Dutch architects at MISSION:house this September. Since 2010, Dutch Architect and Designer Edwin Oostmeijer has organized and led the Amsterdam-based Summit Tour, which highlights key works of Northern California Modern Architecture.
For The Summit’s fourth annual study visit to view examples of “NorCalMod,” MISSION:house hosted the distinguished guests and demonstrated a contemporary vision of this classic, architectural theme. The celebrated, signature blending of architecture with local and regional geographic influences that characterizes the Modern Architecture of Northern California was a highlight for the visiting Dutch architects, designers and developers, who traveled to experience and learn about local variations of this motif. The tour features project-based housing interspersed with private homes. “The Summit,” named for an intriguing apartment building in the Russian Hill neighborhood, refers to “the peak” of architecture both metaphorically and literally.

INTERSTICE Architects is thrilled to support La Cocina and participate in our 4th annual Street Food Festival!

This year we designed and installed a 300-foot-long sinuous bench, called the INTERSTICE banqu(ette), which meanders down the center of the San Francisco Street Food Festival’s second annual Night Market.

Over 500 pallets were zip-tied together to form an interlocking, modular lounge furnishing  and bar-table kiosks with heat-lamps for people to gather, eat and celebrate the Market.

With 6 different global regions of foods represented, the Night Market is an opportunity for San Franciscans to taste the best the world has to offer, all prepared and sold by local vendors. The benches are color coded by global region and display way-finding signage also by INTERSTICE. Local artists painted the coverings for the seats.

This is the launch party for the San Francisco Street Food Festival, which spans 6 blocks along Folsom Street between 20^th and 26^th Streets.

Check out the team at work!

INTERSTICE's design in action

INTERSTICE Architects’ project ‘Bay Remediation Site: 1″  has been published in arcCA’s Winter 2012 Design Awards Issue!  BRS:1 won an AIACC Urban Design Merit Award earlier last year, and the issue features our project as well as all the other AIACC award winners.  This is BRS:1′s fourth award in the last 3 years, having previously received awards from the California Architectural Foundation, AIA San Francisco, and an international Green Dot Award for sustainability.  You can check out the project on page 46.

We’re pleased to announce that the Mission house has been published in West Coast Modern – a new architectural monograph by Zahid Sardar featuring “Breathtaking home designs that fit perfectly into the unique landscape of the West.” The book features work by offices such as Aiden Darling, Tom Kundig, Steven Ehrlich, and other notable names from California and the rest of the West Coast. San Francisco Live/Work – aka the Mission House – is on page 124 – the book is available for purchase on Amazon.

We’d like to thank everyone that joined us this past Friday for Parking Day 2012! We had a great time meeting all of you, and we hope you enjoyed our “Lighter than Air” installation and the tasty Malaysian food courtesy of mamakSF! If you have any photos that you’d like to share (maybe you and your friends riding Public Bike’s Whimcycle, or lounging on our yoga ball furniture?) please post them here!

Also, be sure to check out our Flickr photo album!

We’re pleased to share that the Saratoga Beach House was published in The Province!  The article recounts the construction and design of the newly completed home, including interviews with its owner and Andrew Dunbar of IA.  You can read the article online.

Join Interstice Architects for PARK(ing) Day 2012 this Friday, September 21st in front of Public Bikes and Harrington Galleries at our installation: “Lighter than Air!”  This year, we’re going light-weight and “floating” new ideas for our Parking Day installation, such as inflatable furniture, a floating balloon lawn, and an Icarus Bike courtesy of Public Bikes.  We’ll also have delicious Malaysian Street food by mamakSF!  We’d love for you to stop by and say hello to the IA team, and of course, make sure to check out all the great PARK(ing) Day installations that are sure to be going on in the Mission District this Friday.

We would also like to extend a heartfelt thank you to Rebar for their organization of PARK(ing) Day – what is now a worldwide event!

We’re pleased to share that the Mission House has been featured in Houses Designed for Famlies, a new architectural monograph published by Think Publishing.  The book contains almost 50 modern homes designed with the family in mind, and you can find the Mission House on page 53.