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Category
Spatial Design / Commercial Interiors
Annual ID
ADC101_SPL015M
About the Work
When ARTIS Ventures moved from its office on Market Street to a new location in the Jackson Square area, the venture capital firm was trading a gritty downtown intersection for a quieter neighborhood steeped in San Francisco history. The brick-and-stone architecture in this once-notorious Barbary Coast district is among the city’s oldest—some of it dating back to the Gold Rush era. Now home to boutiques, restaurants, antique shops, and William Stout Architectural Books, the area offers an upscale variation on the urban energy that prevailed at the Market Street site. ARTIS wanted to maintain that energy as well as the jewel box execution Studio O+A brought to its former office while offering clients the hospitality and comfort of a gentler Barbary Coast. The company also wanted a clean, gallery-like space for its art-loving CEO Stuart Peterson to display some of his personal collection.
The central story of this project is just that: central. As with ARTIS's prior office, the O+A wanted to give the firm's staff, clients, and guests a space with the comfort and informality of an apartment. However, the load-bearing wall that bisects the space felt like an impediment to the welcoming spirit ARTIS wanted to convey. The design team's solution was to unite the two spaces on either side with a single, encircling ribbon of activity—all focused on hospitality. A combination reception and barista station is the first thing you see off the elevator; then a lounge area for informal gathering; then through the wall to the pantry area and around full circle to a drop-in workstation where the staff can sit with laptops. With a work surface that optically appears to come all the way around with a mirroring of finishes on each side of the divide, the impact is one of shared vitality, shared purpose.
The central story of this project is just that: central. As with ARTIS's prior office, the O+A wanted to give the firm's staff, clients, and guests a space with the comfort and informality of an apartment. However, the load-bearing wall that bisects the space felt like an impediment to the welcoming spirit ARTIS wanted to convey. The design team's solution was to unite the two spaces on either side with a single, encircling ribbon of activity—all focused on hospitality. A combination reception and barista station is the first thing you see off the elevator; then a lounge area for informal gathering; then through the wall to the pantry area and around full circle to a drop-in workstation where the staff can sit with laptops. With a work surface that optically appears to come all the way around with a mirroring of finishes on each side of the divide, the impact is one of shared vitality, shared purpose.
2022 Awards
Total Points: 3
Merit Honor
Credits
Design Firm
Studio O+A / San Francisco
Designer
Rodly Jean
Tannaz Torabi
Photographer
Garrett Rowland
Design Director
Dani Gelfand
Project Manager
Priyam Mehta
Principal
Primo Orpilla
Project Designer
Zoe Albean
Project Director
Dan Kretchmer
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