IA hosts AIA Design Week
IA was happy to play host to everyone who participated in last night’s “Open Studio” as a part of AIA’s Design Week. We thank everyone who stopped by our office as well as the Mission:House, and we enjoyed answering all your questions about its 10 year construction. We hope you had a great time and have the opportunity to participate in the rest of the events scheduled for Design Week!
Spring Party 2012 – Thanks for coming!
Spring Party 2012, a set on Flickr.
We would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to everyone that stopped by our office on May 17th for our annual spring party! The event was a great success – we had a great time and we sincerely hope you did too. We’ve uploaded some select photos to our Flickr photostream, so be sure to check out the gallery – and if you have any photos you would like to share with us, you can post those on our facebook page.
Join us at our Spring Party!
Come join us at our office to celebrate spring! Enjoy refreshing French 75s, delicious food prepared by local food vendors, music, friends, and an indoor spring swing! Visit our Facebook page for event details and be sure to let us know you’re coming by shooting an email to rsvp@intersticearchitects.com!
587 Shotwell Office Photography
We’re excited to share new finish photography taken of our our office renovations at 587 Shotwell, begun back in 2009. Since moving in, we’ve improved the former warehouse space, most notably with the addition of the “Cube,” our conference room built with a rigid wood frame clad with a glass skin made of panels sourced from local salvage yards. The full set of photographs and full description can be found on our website.
Photography credits go to Cesar Rubio (http://www.cesarrubio.com/).
Parking Day 2011 Photos
Parking Day 2011, a set on Flickr.
We’re happy to share photos from our successful Park(ing) Day 2011 Parklet, which was installed in front of 826 Valencia. This year’s installation, titled the “paARRRrk-let!” was a temporary tree nursery and social space, which illustrated how the volume of one parking space (800 cubic feet) is the necessary volume for one urban tree to establish its roots and thrive. We had many visitors to the parklet throughout the day, and for those of you that stopped by, we thoroughly enjoyed sharing our installation and the great weather with you! For those that weren’t able to join us, there is a link above to our Flickr photostream, so you can see the process behind the paARRRrk-let and some images of its install.
For more information on 826 Valencia, be sure to visit their website.
Park(ing) Day 2011: paARRRRrk-let!
Come join Interstice Architects in front of 826 Valencia in the Mission for Park(ing) Day San Francisco 2011!
The volume of just one parking space is 800 cubic feet – which is equivalent to the minimum soil required for an urban tree to thrive. Using recycled wood palettes, we are installing a temporary story space/nursery, and in deference to the corsair spirit of our friends at 826 Valencia, our paarrrrk-let prototype will proclaim our proclivity for parking-space piracy in proper privateer practice. The parklet re-uses a waste stream material to create a multi-tiered space for people to lounge ‘on deck’ in the shade of an urban tree. The space defined by the outer edge of the pallets represents the soil the tree needs to develop a healthy and stable root system.
Our parklet illustrates not only how a parking spot can be transformed into an urban nursery, but how a temporary nursery space for a tree can also become a community social space. Tapping into our interest discussed in former posts regarding our research into Public Green Networks, we envision a system of both permanent and temporary urban nursery spaces that add a new dimension of verdant social space to the evolving ‘green’ urban fabric of the city. More on this idea in posts to come.
So please, make sure to stop by our paarrrrk-let and check out our park(ing) day page on the Parking Day DIY Network, where you can find mapped locations for parking day installations across the city, and take a look at all the different people and organizations participating in Park(in) Day this year! We would like to extend a special thanks to Rebar for their excellent organization of the worldwide event, and for starting this great tradition 6 years ago!
SF Street Food Festival 2011
SF Street Food Festival 2011, a gallery on Flickr.
Recently, IA was pleased to get involved and help La Cocina with their 3rd Annual San Francisco Street Food Festival — an event that showcases some of San Francisco’s best food from restaurants from across the Bay Area. Held in the lively Mission neighborhood, the festival features stalls from over 60 local restaurants and chefs, live music, drinks, and local vendors. The IA office helped La Cocina with the planning, organization, and assembly of temporary dining furniture made from easily sourced waste-stream materials, using items such as milk crates, plywood, and recycled wood palettes to construct tables and seating pods. Check out our Flikr Gallery, linked above, for photos of the festival and some of the furniture in action, and make sure to visit La Cocina’s website for more information on the Festival and their own incubator kitchen programs.
The Summit Visits the Mission House
Last month, we were pleased to play host to the Summit Tour, a group of Dutch Architects and Designers touring Northern California, visiting various famous architectural landmarks and homes by architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Joseph Eichler, as well as newer works by local San Francisco Architects. We were honored to show them around the Mission House, answer their questions, and treat them to lunch. We are especially happy to be featured in their publication, “The Summit,” which both showcases the many places they visited as well as narrates the rich design history of San Francisco and the Bay Area.
Spring Party!
All of us here at Interstice Architects would like to invite you (yes you) to our 2011 Spring Party on Thursday, May 5th! Come celebrate the new season and/or start your Cinco de Mayo night out at our office in the Mission, located at 587 Shotwell Street. Enjoy Mexican food, drinks, and music in our office digs. If you plan on attending, kindly send an email to rsvp@intersticearchitects.com
BAYA Visits the IA Office
Interstice was pleased to host the Bay Area Young Architects at our offices last month — the evening included drinks, food, a tour of IA’s warehouse office, and a presentation of some of our new and ongoing work. Look below to view some photos taken during the evening, and be sure to check out BAYA’s upcoming events.
