Designing with the Carbon Budget: Fog's Edge

Since the launch of our Carbon Budget initiative, we’ve implemented the dashboard on 11 projects. In this blog series, we'll deep dive into specific projects, outlining how we're tracking both the predicted operational and embodied carbon emissions as the project progresses, which in turn, will result in more sensitive and resilient designs that emit less carbon.

This week, we spoke with Alessio De Francesca, the CEO and Founder of CoorItalia, about the creation, development, and refinement of his practice. CoorItalia is a highly respected supplier of both Architectural Elements and Windows and Doors, alongside Elementi, which crafts custom Italian-made furnishings and interior applications.

Learn more about this week's staff spotlight, Steven Stept.

Learn more about this week's staff spotlight, Arman Hadilou.

In 2004, Feldman Architecture designed our first home in The Preserve, kicking off a long-term relationship with the community, and introducing a precedent and appreciation for contemporary and sustainable design - with numerous homes completed and 5 more currently in design or under construction.

Learn more about this week's staff spotlight, Aaron Gonzalez.

Learn more about this week's staff spotlight, Simon McKenzie.

Learn more about this week's staff spotlight, Matt Lindsay.

Learn more about this week's staff spotlight, Jeff Wheeler.

Learn more about our newest staff member, Brooke Mareschal!

Feldman Architecture is happy to announce that we’re officially a Just certified organization! The Just Label, run by the International Living Future Institute, functions similarly to a nutrition label that scores organizations on socially just and equitable operations and policies. As a voluntary disclosure tool, it’s a transparency platform for organizations to disclose specific information about their operations, from employee demographics and benefits to financial and community investments. It requires reporting on a range of operational indicators that outline accountability metrics for each organization to be recognized at four levels of performance. See Feldman Architecture’s complete Just Dashboard below, which provides information on each of our 24 performance indicators, and our company policies individually addressing each indicator.

Learn more about this week's staff spotlight, Mingyue Hu.

Learn more about this week's staff spotlight, Daniel Holbrook.

Learn more about this week's staff spotlight, Ben Welty.

Learn more about this month's staff spotlight, Evan McCurdy.

For this installment of our CRAFT series, we spoke with Kyle Minor, founder of Kyle Minor Design. Our team recently toured their SF workshop, learning about their processes, design ethos, and taking a closer look at some impressive recent work. Read the full interview below – and as Kyle says – “Build custom, Build once.”

Feldman Architecture is happy to announce that Anjali Iyer has been elevated to Partner. With an unwavering dedication to Feldman Architecture over the last ten years, Anjali thrives in creative discourse and deeply enjoys translating design intent into grounded reality. As a Senior Project Manager and licensed Architect, Anjali has led the design of a collection of landmark projects, including the delicate, carefully detailed Atherton Pavilions, and the modern, intricate Round House.

Learn more about this month's staff spotlight, Erika Vergara-Bernstein.

Our CRAFT series highlights the varied work of the artists, makers, curators, and craftspeople that inspire and elevate our projects.

Launched in Spring 2023, this initiative takes aim at each residential project’s operational and embodied carbon, setting an aggressive target of 100 metric-tons (tonnes) per home (for reference, driving from San Francisco to Atlanta emits 1 metric ton of carbon, and the average FA home has a carbon footprint of ~200 metric tons). We will measure the projected carbon emissions of each project throughout the design phases via energy modeling and embodied carbon analysis, using this to data to further optimize our designs. We will continue to measure operational carbon emissions post-occupancy, and carbon offsets will be purchased for those exceeding the budget one year after completion.

We spoke with Jess Stuenkel for the latest installment of our Women of FA series.

Last week, we caught up with the Noe Valley 3 clients who are excited to embark on their second home with Feldman Architecture.

Learn more about this month's staff spotlight, Olivia Huber Georgakopoulos.

Our CRAFT series highlights the varied work of the artists, makers, curators, and craftspeople that inspire and elevate our projects.

Managing Partner Steven Stept, along with help from the FA Studio, recently completed remodeling his family's Oakland home - infusing the original structure's traditional detailing with Steven's modern aesthetics. Below, read more about the design process and the challenges Steven faced acting as the client, owner, and general contractor - all at once!  

Learn more about this month's staff spotlight, Neda Fattahi.

We’re excited to add an installment to our Living Building Challenge blog series, tracking our progress with Curveball, which will aim to be our first project to achieve a Living Building Challenge certification, as well as the first residential certification at CORE level or higher in California.

Learn more about this month's staff spotlight, Ivan Leon Ramirez.

Learn more about this month's staff spotlight, Yulia Korneeva.

The Feldman Architecture team is excited to be expanding our breadth of work geographically, continuing to take on new projects outside of the San Francisco Bay Area. As our designs are centered around sensitivity and responsiveness to both site and context, expanding to fresh locales asks our team to become familiar with new climates, topography, and landscapes. From adjusting roofs to accommodate for snow in Oregon, to paying extra attention to fire resiliency in arid Southern California, read about a few in progress projects below and the beautiful and diverse sites that inspired their designs.

Learn more about this month's staff spotlight, Maria Bermudez.

Last week, we caught up with a new client working on a remodel in San Mateo. We were struck by her talent as a designer and the ease at which she was able to communicate ideas with our team, allowing the project to move smoothly and to satisfy everyone’s vision. She spoke with us last week about the intersection of her work as an industrial designer and the collaborative relationship she has developed with our design team.

Learn more about this month's staff spotlight, Kay Bromley.

We spoke with Heera Basi for the latest installment of our Women of FA series.

Publishing a book is both a challenging and rewarding process, a monumental task that asked us to consolidate, edit, organize, and create.

Learn more about this month's staff spotlight, Janie Wright.

Learn more about this month's staff spotlight, Jenni Deas.

We spoke with Anjali Iyer for the latest installment of our Women of FA series.

Learn more about this month's staff spotlight, Chris Kurrle.

We spoke with Kateryna Rogynska for the latest installment of our Women of FA series.

A staircase often acts as the spine of a home, connecting public and private spaces delicately and effortlessly. Our team finds joy in detailing stairs, whether they are meant to be architectural focal points, or designed simply to perform their programmatic function. Often overlooked, we collected a few of our favorite stair moments to showcase how a well-designed staircase can transform a space, preserve a view, or blend seamlessly and subtly into the backdrop.

We spoke with Lindsey Theobald for the latest installment of our Women of FA series.

Learn more about this month's staff spotlight, Jonathan Feldman.

Learn more about this month's staff spotlight, Jiayi Wang.

To kick off our craft series, we spoke with Brit Kleinman, Founder and Design Director at AVO. Learn more about Brit’s process, her views on materiality, and the beautiful hand-painted work she custom created for our Twin Peaks project in the following conversation.

Learn more about this month's staff spotlight, Natalie Marcisz.

Learn more about this month's staff spotlight, Nicholas Mobilia.

Learn more about this month's staff spotlight, Norm Wong.

Learn more about this month's staff spotlight, Isabel Verhille.

Learn more about this month's staff spotlight, Yan Ren.

Learn more about this month's staff spotlight, Parker Klebahn.

Learn more about this month's staff spotlight, Nick Tedesco.