Category Archives: Concept

Learning Community

Children’s Day School’s founding campus, set back from Dolores Street, occupies an acre of greenery in the heart of a San Francisco city block. Jensen Architects has adapted and renovated several of its buildings over the years including the main schoolhouse, an adapted townhouse, and a Boys and Girls Clu [...]

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Analogous Spaces

An office environment, therefore, might be like a library, a theater, a nightclub, a café, or even a home.

Our Workplace

Jensen’s own office is a living experiment testing ideas and points-of-view about workplace design. The central city location inside an older Market Street building demonstrates that sustainable design is not a new topic.

Evolution of Office Design

Spatial patterns in the workplace can promote vital collaboration and interaction. Based on this thinking (along with some simple economics), the open office floor plan has superseded the long tradition of hierarchical space (corner office, formal conference rooms).

Of the Hill

When the house is in use, there is almost no house. The goal was to make a building disappear into the landscape. The site itself is stunning: the ridge line of an oak covered hill with views of Mount Tamalpais, the Bay, and beyond. The idea was to make a house that allowed for living on the ridge without diminishing the ri [...]

Client Vision

The Turner's previous home was an extraordinary, but traditional house. Built over a hundred years ago, the yellow Victorian’s unique personality has made it a well-loved landmark in Larkspur. In imagining a new home, Ellen and David Turner wished to employ the very best contemporary thinking to create a house t [...]

Making the Modern Grange

SHED founders Cindy Daniel and Doug Lipton moved to Healdsburg in 1996 and became part of a growing community of sustainable farmers, wine makers, and food producers. The period brought a sea change of environmental awareness and some welcome economic growth to the region, yet they could see that the essential [...]

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