Glen Park Residence is a modern single-family house located in San Francisco, California, designed in 2021 by Light Space Architecture Office.

Description
LSAO was challenged to re-imagine a property almost entirely unchanged since it was built in 1949. The house was one of the thousands built by developers in post-war San Francisco using nearly identical plans. Characterized by compact size, modest materials, and radically efficient floor plan layouts, this type of house is difficult to improve on a limited budget because they were designed around maximizing affordability and frequently excluded things like insulation, more than one bathroom, and deep foundations. LSAO?s work would have to be focused to meet the client?s challenging budget. Unlike the larger developments on the flat western edge of the city, this house was one of just four on an infill site below the peak of a hill on the eastern edge of San Francisco?s Glen Park neighborhood. LSAO realized that the unique location offered the prospect of unobstructed views to the south and east and a thickly wooded park to the North. Because boiler-plate plans were used in the original construction, the existing house?s view was visible only through a few small, poorly placed windows. The potential of the property became clear by ascending to the roof where one could take in a panoramic view of nearly the entire bay – including downtown. The unfinished first floor/garage was another opportuni...