Get Involved

By on August 31, 2013 in Community Support, Donations

The Bay Bridge House project is creating a community to bring together passionate people who share a desire to see a little piece of our history saved. We are seeking donations, support and contributions of all types.


FINANCIAL SUPPORT
For your generous donation, financial donors will receive the following:

$50 donation Receive a t-shirt with “I support Bay Bridge House” printed on it
(black or white)
$100 donation Receive a polo-shirt with “I support Bay Bridge House” embroidered on it
(black, white, navy blue, pink)
$1,000 - $4999 Receive a small piece of the historic Bay Bridge with your name engraved on it
(excellent and unique gift for someone else too)
$5,000 - $24,999 Receive a piece of the historic Bay Bridge with your name engraved on it as well
as a Plaque in the entrance of the Bay Bridge House identifying you as a major contributor to the project.
$25,000 - $49,999 Receive all of the above, as well as a one night stay in the Bay Bridge House.
More than $50,000 Receive all of the above, as well as a one week stay in the Bay Bridge House or the whole-facility reserved for a full weekend for a private event.





We will be attaching a plaque at the entrance of the house that will include a short story of the Oakland Span of the Bay Bridge, a short story about Bay Bridge House, the names of major contributors, sponsors and partners. With proper care, the Bay Bridge House and the plaque will become part of Bay Area’s historic sites with many generations enjoying the architecture and splendor that once was the Bay Bridge.


LAND SUPPORT
We are also seeking a small plot of land with a view of the new Bay Bridge on which to build the Bay Bridge House. The idea is for visitors to the house to be able to stay in the historic old Bay Bridge, while having a spectacular view of the new bridge. It will be an epic experience for any history lover.


CORPORATE SUPPORT
The Bay Bridge House is also looking for companies, organizations, government agencies that would be interested in being part of our project as donors, sponsors, partners, or even volunteers. We would like to launch this project with as much Bay Area support as possible.


VOLUNTEERS
Volunteers, keep it in the Bay Area! We are seeking contractors, architects, structural engineers, lawyers, artists, writers, journalists and creative thinkers. We need all types of people to make this a success. Have some time, want to help? Reach out to us.


OTHER DONATIONS
If you have other items you would like to donate (pianos, classic/historic furniture, artwork…) please let us know. Even if you have leftover construction materials that would otherwise go to a dump or be scrapped, Let us know to see if we can recycle it!

Home out of an old 60ft water tower

By on August 28, 2013 in Architects, Outside House Design Inspirations

Over the past two years, shoppers at a West London supermarket may have noticed a bizarre cylindrical dwelling taking shape high above the store’s car park.
The structure from which it has been created - a 60ft tower holding a vast water tank - could not have looked more uninhabitable.
But since 2009, this concrete drum has slowly undergone an incredible transformation.

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Aether Apparel Stacked Shipping Container Store in San Francisco

By on August 24, 2013 in Architects, Inside commercial design inspirations, Outside Commercial Design Inspirations

Shipping container design is getting to be more and more of an interesting and eye-catching feature when you’ve got a business that’s based on consumers. Aether Apparel in San Francisco has taken their shop to all new heights (literally) with their three stacked shipping container design by Envelope A+D in collaboration with Chris French Metal.

By taking standard sized containers and offsetting them, they create cantilevered sections on the second and third stories. Glass casements allow for another architectural element to show off the structure and its upcycled nature. The interior is outfitted with reclaimed oak flooring and even a conveyor belt for a little extra element of surprise.

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Top 100 Architecture Trends of 2012

By on August 20, 2013 in Architects, Design Inspirations, Eco Technology, Green Rooftop Design Inspirations, Inside commercial design inspirations, Inside House Design Inspirations, Outside Commercial Design Inspirations, Outside House Design Inspirations, Uncategorized

From dirt wall abodes to pixelated panel interiors, the best architecture trends of 2012 showed a wide range of innovative designs.

2012 was also a year for homes inspired by pop culture. The Hobbit in particular was a popular theme leading up to the movie’s release in December, resulting in architecture with a seemingly earthy feel. It appeared that consumers were open to new designs with this eco look, and some even welcomed homes made mostly out of dirt. Compared to some of the more modern chic abodes on the market, designs such as these proved the public were still willing to buy homes with a minimum amount of grandeur.

Trend Hunter’s Architecture Trend Report explores the implications of these designs in much more detail, and can help businesses looking for ideas in this area.

TrendHunter - Article

Industrial Box Coffee Shops to On-Demand Housing

By on August 20, 2013 in Architects, Eco Technology, Inside commercial design inspirations, Inside House Design Inspirations, Outside Commercial Design Inspirations, Outside House Design Inspirations

The rise in popularity of shipping container concepts underscores our competitive and quick-changing society in which companies, housing and art space have to constantly adapt.

Shipping containers are the new space for anything from coffee shops to furniture stores. The temporary nature of these shops is a valuable aspect of the business model. An element of exclusivity and time-sensitivity is the novelty aspect that attracts people to the shop. The flexibility that comes with temporary locations increases consumer accessibility to products or services.

The shipping container wins in terms of practically, as idle shipping containers can be repurposed for tangible use and the industrial look is both mod and rad in contemporary design circles.

Industrial Box Coffee Shops to On-Demand Housing Article

From Shipping Containers to Abodes

By on August 20, 2013 in Design Inspirations, Eco Technology, Inside House Design Inspirations, Outside House Design Inspirations, Uncategorized

This collection of eco homes come in a variety of sizes, shapes and materials. There are many small choices people can make to be more environmentally friendly such as using reusable water bottles, taking public transit and turning down the AC, however, these trends show that no matter your station in life, it is also possible to make sustainable choices for your living space. It makes sense, as your house is probably where you spend the most amount of time.

In the future we can expect to see an increasing number of green housing and solar-powered energy options on a residential level.

List of 71 Eco Houses

Antón García-Abril - Architect

By on August 20, 2013 in Architects, Design Inspirations, Inside commercial design inspirations, Inside House Design Inspirations, Outside Commercial Design Inspirations, Outside House Design Inspirations

Ensamble Studio

Antón García-Abril, (Madrid, 1969) is a European PhD Architect, full-professor at the School of Architecture and Planning of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), and he is currently developing a second doctoral thesis about “Stressed Mass” at the School of Civil Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Barcelona. He received the Spanish Academy Research Prize in Rome in 1996. He has been associate professor at the School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (E.T.S.A.M.-U.P.M.) for a decade, invited professor at the Graduate School of Design of Harvard University in 2010 and Cornell University in 2008, and visiting critic and lecturer in different universities and institutions in America and Europe. In 2000 he establishes ENSAMBLE STUDIO leading, together with his partner Débora Mesa, a cross-functional team with a solid research background on the lookout for new approaches to architectonical space, building technologies and urban strategies. Their built projects are exposed structures that explore the essence of materials to create space. The Music Studies Center and the SGAE Central Office in Santiago de Compostela, the Martemar House in Malaga, the Hemeroscopium House in Madrid, The Truffle in Costa da Morte (Spain) and more recently the Reader’s House in Madrid and the Cervantes Theater in Mexico City have been internationally published. Their office has been awarded with important prizes like The Rice Design Alliance Prize to emerging architects in 2009 or the Architectural Record Design Vanguard Prize in 2005, and was selected by SANAA to participate in the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2010. This year Antón has been elected an International Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) for his services to international architecture, and has been curator of the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale presenting “Spainlab”. He co-founded with Débora Mesa the Positive City Foundation in 2009, with the aim of forwarding their views on urban development, and they are in the process of setting up a research laboratory at MIT, the POPLab (Prototypes of Prefabrication Laboratory).

Ensamble Studio

James Law - Architect

By on August 20, 2013 in Architects, Design Inspirations, Inside commercial design inspirations, Outside Commercial Design Inspirations

CYBERTECTURE

Cybertecture is the revolutionary concept that provides a symbiotic relationship between the urban fabric and technology. Pioneered in 2001, Cybertecture forges both the hardware of the built environment and software systems and technologies from the micro to macro scales of development.

The genesis of Cybertecture is in response to man’s progress into the 21st century, where working and living environments need to adapt and evolve to cope with the demands of modern working life. It plays an integral part in this evolution by providing awareness and connectivity via seamless integration of technology into the fabric of space.

Cybertecture designs, from technology, products and interiors to systems, buildings and masterplans, allow flexibility and accessibility to inform, adapt, react, communicate, manipulate and control environments, whilst being sustainable and environmentally considered in application and context.

Cybertecture embraces the future through continuous innovation and evolution of design and technology. It provides a myriad of solutions, all of which are diverse in individual application but holistic to the overall user environment, and always being integrated with innovation being pursued.

Cybertecture is the logical progression in the evolution of design and technology. Innovating locally and affecting globally, it addresses the fundamentals of sustainable and balanced designs, with every step taken in consideration to local and global impact.

In a world fast growing and developing with limited resources, Cybertecture aims to create more awareness with healthier environments to live, work and play in.

James Law

Bart Prince - Architect

By on August 20, 2013 in Architects, Design Inspirations, Inside House Design Inspirations, Outside House Design Inspirations

By Far my favorite Architects of our time.

ARCHITECTURE comes about as a result of the synthesizing by the architect of creative responses to input from the client; data gathered from the site and the climate; and an understanding of structure, materials, space and light. Working from the inside-out, the architect guides the growth of an IDEA resulting from the combination of these responses to a completed design which is as much a portrait of the client as it may be of himself.”
- Bart Prince

Bart Prince

River Place / Paul F. Hirzel

By on August 20, 2013 in Architects, Design Inspirations

From the architect. At the end of a single lane road cut into a hillside, on a dry west-facing slope near Juliaetta, Idaho, the owners wanted to restore a pioneer vineyard (the first known vineyard in the canyon). Preserving the most ideal land for the vineyard, we located two structures – one above a flood plain, the other perched on a narrow basalt cliff overlooking a spawning pool on the Potlatch River. The owner and guest quarters are housed in one structure and the other is used for special events such as wine tasting.

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River Place

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