We are delighted to announce the promotion of Tyler Stowell to Senior Associate! Tyler is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. He is a licensed architect and has 12 years of experience in multifamily housing, mixed-use developments, and hospitality projects. Tyler now focuses on affordable housing and progressive housing initiatives.
Kerman Morris Architects LLP
Architecture and Planning
San Francisco, CA 293 followers
We design thoughtful, livable and dynamic spaces
About us
Established in 1994, Kerman Morris Architects is a small, woman-owned business recognized by the City and County of San Francisco as a Green Business. Our firm brings a deep commitment to excellence in design and creating responsive, well-crafted places for living and working. Our practice specializes in a range of residential developments, including infill housing, affordable housing, custom homes, and mixed-use projects as well as developing projects themselves.
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http://www.kermanmorris.com/
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- Architecture and Planning
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- 2-10 employees
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- San Francisco, CA
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- Partnership
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- 1994
- Specialties
- Multi-Family Housing, Custom Homes, Mixed-Use, Civic, Adaptive Reuse, and Infill Housing
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San Francisco, CA 94114, US
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Transbay 2 West Senior Affordable Housing is now in construction! Situated on the corner of Folsom and Beale in downtown San Francisco, the nine-story building will provide 151 affordable homes for seniors (with 30 homes specifically reserved for formerly unhoused individuals) in this critical part of the city. The building will also provide supportive and community services, ample outdoor space at the ground-floor and roof levels, and retail space at the ground floor. Transbay 2 West is a collaboration between KMA, Mithun, the Chinatown Community Development Center, with the Office of Community Investment & Infrastructure. Thank you to are partners on this project: DCI Engineers, OLMM Consulting Engineers, LUK AND ASSOCIATES, Engineering 350, AR Green Consulting, Plural, Urban Design Consulting Engineers (UDCE), 4EA Building Science, Tucci Lighting, CSDA Design Group. Learn more about Transbay 2 West and its partner, Transbay 2 East: https://lnkd.in/gUr3Regw
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We are deeply honored that Habitat in Diamond Heights received the Judges Special Award of Excellence for Affordable Housing from PCBC. Habitat in Diamond Heights was one of only three winners of the Judges Special Award out of 675 entries! The award recognizes projects that stand out and deserve recognition beyond specific categories. Much of the credit for realizing this wonderful project goes to the late Mischa Seligman (pictured below) who donated his land to honor the wishes of his mother, Maria Kolisch. Elizabeth Kerman-Morris, AIA and Toby Morris, AIA went to Anaheim last week to receive the award and enjoy the festivities. Thank you Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco for your tenacious pursuit of excellence, and to all who contributed to this very special project. #affordablehousingSF #goldnuggetaward #affordablehousing
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We are delighted to announce that Habitat in Diamond Heights won a Gold Nugget Award of Merit for Best Affordable Housing Community! Habitat in Diamond Heights, designed and built in collaboration with Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco, provides eight townhouse homes for families, many of whom were displaced from San Francisco during the 1970s. The homes meet the highest sustainability standards. The result is a net-positive energy building in the heart of Diamond Heights. Learn more about Habitat in Diamond Heights: https://lnkd.in/gDethpBa #affordablehousing #affordablehousingSF #MOHCD #netzerohousing
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Kerman Morris Architects LLP reposted this
We are delighted to announce that Habitat in Diamond Heights won a Gold Nugget Award of Merit for Best Affordable Housing Community! Habitat in Diamond Heights, designed and built in collaboration with Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco, provides eight townhouse homes for families, many of whom were displaced from San Francisco during the 1970s. The homes meet the highest sustainability standards. The result is a net-positive energy building in the heart of Diamond Heights. Learn more about Habitat in Diamond Heights: https://lnkd.in/gDethpBa #affordablehousing #affordablehousingSF #MOHCD #netzerohousing
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We are delighted to announce that Habitat in Diamond Heights won a Gold Nugget Award of Merit for Best Affordable Housing Community! Habitat in Diamond Heights, designed and built in collaboration with Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco, provides eight townhouse homes for families, many of whom were displaced from San Francisco during the 1970s. The homes meet the highest sustainability standards. The result is a net-positive energy building in the heart of Diamond Heights. Learn more about Habitat in Diamond Heights: https://lnkd.in/gDethpBa #affordablehousing #affordablehousingSF #MOHCD #netzerohousing
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Ash and Debbie Notaney purchased their cabin on a wooded site in Sonoma, intending to build an ADU for rental. They used a prefabricated A-frame to reduce the impact on the creek running along the property. We worked with the Notaneys, providing energy efficiency coordination, recommendations of systems and fire resistant technologies, and permitting to create a comfortable and sustainable solution. The Notaneys fell in love with their new A-frame and decided to make it their own home after the kids move out. The project has recently been recognized in The Press Democrat. https://lnkd.in/g3mePbkk
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Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco welcomed eight families to their new homes and presented them with keys in a dedication ceremony earlier this month. We are thrilled to see our design become a reality and to see this dream, this site, and this project become a place where displaced San Franciscan families can find a permanent home. #affordablehousing #habitatforhumanity https://lnkd.in/gN4svt-x
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It is so incredible to finally see this project completed and to meet the new home owners! It makes it all worthwhile! I couldn’t be more proud!
Design-Thinking professional helping organizations develop and scale their sustainability solutions.
Last weekend, Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco handed over the keys to eight families who will now make their home on Diamond Height’s Amber Drive, on a plot of land that once housed a single bungalow. HGSF’s CEO Maureen Sedonaen never hesitated in accepting the gift from the original owner’s son, Misha Seligman, knowing what was possible on that sliver of land. It took years and an enormous amount of patience when Covid 19 derailed progress. However, last Saturday, even as the fog blocked the view to the Golden Gate Bridge, the stunning triplex of buildings designed by Kerman Morris Architects, in homage to the Eichler-esque neighbors, shone brightly. In 2020, I, along with Board Member/Architect Heidi Hansen , set out to solve the interior finishes for the project, in a manner that brought inspired and enduring options to these homes. Working off the platform we had previously established for HGSF’s 20 homes in Redwood City we extended the circular ideas that we had leveraged and set out to bring the same elevated, enduring sensibilities but with a mid-Century feeling. It was an emotional moment to meet the families that would eat under the soft lighting emanating from Hubbardton Forge’s chandelier which hovers elegantly over one of the top floor islands. There is the Daltile, which greets every homeowner in each building’s entryway and as a stunning and protective kitchen backsplash. In a community that is home to a combined mix of twelve children, backsplashes are a necessary finish to protect from the impacts of over exuberant water balloon filling. These finishes were made possible via a creative approach to our sourcing, deepening relationships with local vendors; and national supplier programs. We found rich partnerships within San Francisco’s robust and generous design and manufacturing communities who delivered excess inventory (thank you Tina Jones of City Lights) which may have been on a circuitous route to landfill. With Maureen Sedonaen’s openness to new solutions, and our mission of holding enduring design at the forefront of our process, we were able to shift the ‘problem’ of using ‘one of’s’, to be seen as a meaningful solution that resulted in more individualized interior stories where families can feel that their home’s personality is as unique as their own. Production schedules pivoted to accommodate a process that, at first glance may appear more ‘Custom Home’ than ‘Affordable Home’, however, with keen coordination and an understanding that we were beating budget and delivering sustainable and equitable solutions, we created a system that allowed our choices to land beautifully. With costs to build in the Bay Area as they are, leveraging circular solutions offered a sharp advantage to the project’s bottom line—while delivering homes that leaves NIMBY’s unable to utter a complaint.
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