Garages can be a place to store your prize possession, but it also can be a work of art. We've seen some pretty awesome celebrity garages, like Jay Leno or Jerry Sienfeld but this garage is very clever.
For people living in the historic Row Houses of San Francisco their parking is limited to street or alley parking. Many of the older Row Houses didn't even have garages back when they were built.
Here's what the designers decided to do, "turn the scattered storage spaces on the first floor of a classic Victorian into a multi-paneled entrance to a brand new garage."
Can you believe the optical illusion? The best part is, they still kept the historic Victorian Design, only making it more practical by building this genius design.
"There was no structural concern – engineers had determined a seismic retrofit could clear out existing columns and make room for cars – but the planning commission presented an aesthetic problem that had to be addressed."
“Beausoleil carefully measured the elements of the existing facade and drew them up, then determined how the bay window sides could be split apart from the rest of the building with almost invisible seams. They envisioned a steel framework that would be secured to the back of the walls before they were cut away from the structure allowing the fabric of the building to remain virtually intact, studs, siding, windows all moving in concert.”
Is this the future of design? Practical and historic?
(Source: http://dornob.com/secret-new-garage-door-spliced-from-historic-bay-windows/)
