5th Street

Berkeley, CA

Completed 2014

The renovation of an existing screw manufacturer’s building into a mixed-used machine shop with two new residential units draws its inspiration from the original attributes of the building and the light industrial neighborhood in which it sits. Existing brick walls, steel bowstring trusses, and warehouse windows inspire a new shed and sawtooth roofline and custom fabricated steel stairs & railings in a manner that appears they were there all along. The Owners, one a master machinist and the other a physicist, fabricated the architectural metal and hardware components themselves.

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