In order to protect the aesthetic appearance of historic architecture, a house that has become like a base of a secret society

Owner who bought a beautiful Victorian-style apartment building in San Francisco's quiet residential area, a landscape conservation area, decided to refurbish it and rent it with a garage. In the modern America that became a car society, the garage is one of the important conditions when looking for a rental property, especially in this area where the parking lot is small and the parking fee is high, that there is a garage in the building is a property It will be a big appeal to add a difference. However, there is no permission of the municipality for such constructions as to greatly change the appearance of historic buildings.

The craftsman proposed to the owner troubled as "Anything I want to make a garage, but nothing can impair the beauty of the historical building which is the charm of the property ...", what the proposer proposed to the garage It will be reformed to open up as a door of the door. The appearance that the finished garage opens with giggies ... is like a base where robots of secret societies that wants to conquer the world are stored, or like a ninja's house, it is a splendid secret altar.

The secret garage opens and closes from the following.
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San Francisco·Haight-AshburyBuilt in the districtVictorianThe apartment which refurbished style house.


At first something exquisite outside wall begins to crack from a successfully hidden seam.


When the left panel is completely folded inward ...


This time there is another incident on the right.


The right side shows a dynamic movement with two sides of a hexagonal prism becoming one by one.


A transform completed, a secret garage appeared. It seems that he succeeded in securing a parking space for four vehicles at the frontage of one street parking space by removing the floor pillars and walls which had been separated into the storeroom and piping room before.


The whole building in open state. The design of the refurbished portion making the most of the materials used in the original building as much as possible is based on the architectural office in San FranciscoIt is said that it was handled.