A Bay Area Home Ideal for Lockdown The house in Orinda, Calif., was designed for entertaining. But it turned out to be just as good for living through a pandemic. FTF collaborated closely with the architect from the early stages of...
Beauty meets brawn in the Bay Area. FTF Engineering applied an advanced seismic structural design of steel braced frames with viscous dampers to a modern residential architectural vision, achieving the following goals without compromising on design or safety....
FTF partnered with Studio VARA to renovate this 1908 cottage into a modern dwelling. From ArchDaily: A research scientist with an eye for detail approached us with a modest vision and a couple of basic practical needs: First, transform a...
With the San Andreas Fault line running through the front yard—which contained liquefiable soils—FTF presented options to the project team that would make the house more disaster-resistant than code regulations required. Given the geotechnical and geological challenges of the site,...