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renovation / adaptive reuse focus on design firm offices Gelfand Partners Architects Former uses: public bath house, laundry, printer Seeking a new home for her 35-employee firm, Lisa Gelfand, FAIA, purchased a San Francisco building that had been built in 1890 as a public bath house and converted it into the office of Gelfand Partners Architects. Severely damaged in the 1906 earthquake, and subsequently housing a commercial laundry and other light industrial uses, the building has a spine of skylights that is perfect for daylight. The author of Sustainable Renovation: Strategies for Commercial Building Systems and Envelope (Wiley, 2012), Gelfand and her colleagues consider the office to be a laboratory for high performance design related to renovation. Low-ambient task lighting illuminates the architecture studio space, and radiant heat was installed at ceiling level. The new mezzanine, independent of the original structure, allows for eight workstations above and five semi-enclosed offices below. Custom perforated FSC-certified plywood panels in the ceiling conceal new thermal and acoustic insulation, as well as reflect indirect lighting. Overhead fans maintain air flow, and new wall-to-wall steel tubes provide seismic bracing without obstructing the skylight. The renovation earned Gold in LEED® for Commercial Interiors. —John Czarnecki Photo by Mark Luthringer (top); courtesy Gelfand Partners Architects (bottom) Before Gelfand Partners Architects office. Architect Gelfand Partners Architects. Where San Francisco. What 7,891 total square feet on one floor with mezzanine. Cost/sf $84, including seismic retrofit. For a full project source list, see page 130 or www.contractdesign.com. 52 contract november/december 2011 www.contractdesign.com http://www.contractdesign.com http://www.contractdesign.com

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Contract - November/December 2011
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Editorial
Industry News
Product Briefs
Product Focus: Classic Touch
Product Focus: Generating Buzz(i)
Gelfand Partners Architects Office in San Francisco Designed by Gelfand Partners Architects
Sorg Architects Office in Washington, D.C. Designed by Sorg Architects
Sauerbruch Hutton Office in Berlin, Germany Designed by Sauerbruch Hutton
Roth Sheppard Architects Office in Denver Designed by Roth Sheppard Architects
AOL West Coast Headquarters in Palo Alto, California Designed by Studio O+A
Red Bull Canada Office Expansion in Toronto, Ontario, Canada Designed by Johnson Chou Inc.
Goods Shed North in Melbourne, Australia Designed by BVN Architecture
Bota Bota Spa in Montreal, Quebec, Canada Designed by Sid Lee Architecture
A’maree’s in Newport Beach, California Designed by Paul Davis Architects
2011 Contract Brand Report Awareness Survey
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Designers Select: Building Products
Ad Index
Perspectives

Contract - November/December 2011