A Stunning House with Two Faces Made of Recycled Plastic and Massive Glass Walls in San Francisco

Janus House is a stunning contemporary home located in San Francisco, California, USA. It was designed by Kennerly Architecture & Planning, this white house made of recycled plastic, offers an elegant living room and massive glass walls.

by Manuela Jul 17, 2020 17 Images

Kennerly Architecture & Planning

Janus House by Kennerly Architecture & Planning

A house on a through-block lot responds to its dichotic circumstance with two distinct faces – A restored Victorian facade addresses the more formal northern frontage, and a modern one opens to the south across the other – an ad hoc row of homes, cottages and small apartment buildings.

The old facade is an elegant mask fronting three original rooms of handsome proportion. The modern face is an open gable framing two levels of family rooms with operable glass walls and a syncopated screen of white recyclable plastic.

Inside, old and new blend together in an open suite of rooms. Upstairs, the existing attic was mined for unused space to create quirky gabled bedrooms each with its own character.

Photos by: Kennerly Architecture & Planning & Bruce Damonte