LAWN:board
INTERSTICE Architects completed a pro bono project for the A + D Museum in Los Angeles.
The Museum’s gala fundraiser “CELEBRATE: GROUNDSWELL” was based around the theme of surf inspired design. To help honor the beach communities, IA designed and built a custom LAWN:board made of bamboo and recycled turf. It could be functional or decorative.
The board was auctioned off during the event.
Visit A+D online at www.aplusd.org.
ASLA NCC 2014 Professional Awards
INTERSTICE hosts Dutch Architects on Summit tour at Mission: House
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.
PARK(ing) Day 2013: Park-a-licious
For PARK(ing) Day 2013, INTERSTICE created a glowing, inhabitable bubble, the DRAGON:bubble.
DRAGON:bubble is a multi-chamber, inflatable structure made from 4 mil. translucent polyethylene and fluorescent green duct tape. The entire pop-up environment weighs less than a person and folds flat to be stored and transported to another location.
Once inflated, three distinct bubble “rooms” intersect to produce a series of interconnected spaces. The “skin” was created by projecting the structural algorithm of a dragonfly’s wing onto the intersecting spheroids. The surface was then flattened through digital manipulation into hundreds of 2-dimensional polyhedron shapes, which were then taped together to form the complex geometry of the final 3-dimensional form.
Inside, the blue grass of the DRAGON:bubble floor creates an other-worldly experience, complete with dynamic balloons that take flight and circulate throughout the spaces. One can relax on soft, inflated spherical furnishings of various sizes to fit the user’s body.
Recently Completed! University of San Francisco Center for Science and Innovation
INTERSTICE created an integrated landscape that relates with the reconfigured campus core surrounding the USF Center for Science and Innovation (CSI) by weaving through the new academic LEED Gold building located at the heart of USF’s urban campus. The project comprehensively redefines the existing central plaza as a bi-level, folded landscape which entangles and blurs interior and exterior space, creating multi-level access to buildings and landscape. This high-performing landscape includes significant storm water filtration areas, water re-use for native planting irrigation and ecologically intensive habitat areas that correlate with the Center’s larger pedagogical objectives. A tree-lined Campus Walk, an undulating lawn and a dining amphitheater provide a social landscape space that supports campus rituals, daily gatherings and special activities in a sustainable and supportive relationship to the larger, Bay area regional ecologies.
Park-a-licious: The Ultimate Public Bubble! PARK(ING) DAY 2013
YOU’RE INVITED!!!
Please come and join
INTERSTICE Architects for PARK(ING) Day 2013 this Friday, September 20th in front of Tacolicious, 11a – 5p
at our installation: “Park-a-licious: The Ultimate Public Bubble!”
We’re going bubblicious, inflating inhabitable bubbles!
…for our PARK(ING) Day installation at 741 Valencia Street.
Come share a tasty taco with the IA team in the bubbles!
INTERSTICE Architects Installs the SF SFF / La Cocina Night Market
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 20th and 26th Streets.
Check out the team at work!
INTERSTICE's design in action
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- INTERSTICE’s design in action
Summer BLUE – Party 2013
Thanks to everyone who made it to our Summer Party: BLUE. It was a great success!
Check out some of the photos below.
IA wins 3 Merit Awards at 2013 ASLA NCC Awards
We’re pleased to share that IA received 3 awards in this year’s ASLA Northern California Chapter Design Awards! We were awarded 3 Merit Awards for our work on the 555 Bartlett Courtyard, Bay Area Remediation Site: 1, and the San Francisco Botanical Garden Pathway Improvements. You can see our award winning projects on the ASLA NCC website.
INTERSTICE Architects 'Digs In' at the SF Botanical Garden
Check out the pictures from our volunteer day at the San Francisco Botanical Garden – IA spent a day helping SFBG Gardener Jason Martinez weed, aerate and plant a grove of Rhododendrons in a section of the Mediterranean Basin known as Heidelberg Hill. If you’re interested in volunteering your time to assist the SFBG, check out their website – the Garden relies heavily on volunteers like yourself to assist them in a variety of different ways, and no prior gardening experience is required!
