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Hazel Road Residence in Berkeley
Sep 8, 2018
Design: Buttrick Projects Architecture + Design
Location: Berkeley, northern Alameda County, California, USA – eastern shore of San Francisco Bay

Hazel Road Residence
Hazel Road Residence was a 1950s-era house long in need of an upgrade and expansion to capitalize on otherwise ?good bones? and to satisfy the needs of a family with young children.

A kitchen remodel was the first problem to tackle. At that time the foundation work for the future upstairs addition was also put in place, so that the second level master bedroom addition would proceed more smoothly. The organizing element to the plan is the stair, which replaces storage and mechanical closets, and otherwise opens up a previously narrow and dark hallway.
Combining storage, access, craftsmanship, materiality, a bar, transparency, and daylighting from above, the attitude towards the stair nodule combines many features that carry through the project. Another unifying concept to the project was to use the yard to greater effect. This meant adding flush sliders to the family room/kitchen blurring the line between indoor and outdoor space.

Basalt paving in the yard transitions to wide wood and concrete steps providing spectator seating when the kids perform on the lawn. An exuberant magnolia gives the new upstairs master bedroom a tree-house feel with fullwall sli...