Urban dwellings can feel highly compartmentalized, composed of segregated levels. A recently completed four-story home, at the crest of San Francisco’s affluent Pacific Heights neighborhood, is surprisingly expansive. Designed by Jensen Architects, the house is a series of glazed volumes with complementary outdoor spaces.
“The clients were interested in a radical level of openness,” says Frank Merritt, a principal at Jensen. The property’s original house was designed in 1941 by architect Gardner Dailey, an early Bay Area modernist. Over the years, its identity had been compromised by renovations, but it retained its unusual layout. Designed for a closer view of the Bay, the back of the house was nearly at the property line; instead of a backyard, it had a courtyard between the main structure and the garage.
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