Crouching Bay Window, Hidden Garage [Video]
by Max Eddy | 11:33 am, April 21st
Like many large cities, San Francisco has very limited parking. Many home owners have opted to remove part of the ground floor of their houses and convert it to a garage. However, recent changes to city code prohibit making drastic external alterations to historic properties. The engineers working with the owners of this home in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood came up with a rather clever solution: turn a bay window into a garage door. From the Beausoleil architectural blog:
The bottom floor of the building, a historic Victorian apartment house, had a hodgepodge of storage rooms, utility spaces and an ancient studio apartment shoehorned between a dozen wood posts. The original brick foundations were underfoot. The project structural engineer, Don David of Double D Engineering determined that as part of upgrading the seismic strength of the structure they could get rid of the columns and the partitions, build new concrete footings, and create a clean open garage space.
So, the house gets four parking spaces for the price of ten feet of street frontage, and a more structurally sound home all while keeping a classic look. And it’s even got a great top-secret James Bondian flare to it. What’s not to love?
(Beausoleil architecture via Boing Boing)
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