Faulkner Architects

 

 

Eleven years now, it has been the pursuit of an Architecture of highly crafted, site sensitive places that has provided focus for our practice. With offices in Berkeley and Lake Tahoe California, we have designed and administered the construction phases for a diverse range of projects that all strive toward sustainability. These include Master Planning and Architecture for mountain golf communities, ski area amenities including a LEED certified on mountain restaurant, mixed-use developments, and private houses. Our Projects are located in Lake Tahoe, The San Francisco Bay Area and as far away as Maui, Hawaii, British Columbia, and Tianjin, China.

 

Emphasis is placed on the entire interactive process between the Client, Architect, and Developer/Construction team. Clients’ Confidence that we are engaged in developing their projects with a thoughtful approach is earned early in the design process. Those most open, have developed built places that deny style and allow new form to be realized. They are built places that strive to achieve a high level of sensitivity in materiality and detail. Resource conscious design is important to us. We are members of the US Green building council. A LEED certified restaurant has been completed on mountain at Northstar at Tahoe and one of the first LEED certified Golf Clubs  in the US was completed in 2006 at Gray’s Crossing in Truckee, California.

  

The work begins with the client and the ultimate goals for the project. It is through this lens that we see the site and its climate as form givers to the program of the intended built place. A measured response emerges after careful consideration and observation. The designs[s] are informed by vernacular traditions drawn from the culture of the place in which the project is to be built. These traditions affect material selection[s], formal massing and most importantly, provide an overriding common sense view of building in an appropriate way. The form is then crafted with a modern, contemporary sense of detail. Our interventions endeavor to build space with the same attributes as form. Natural light and continuity with the landscape allow the built place to connect with its day. 

 

 

 

 

We invite you to discover more about us or to read about some of our past and current projects. If you would like to discuss a project of your own, please contact us.