MAGNOLIA FIREHOUSE

Design Draw Build assisted the Owner and Architect of Record - Baran Studio Architecture—in the revitalization of a 1920’s Oakland Firehouse as the Builder, providing design-build services and general contractor oversight. The restoration included the replacement of deteriorating windows, rebuilding exterior brick quoins, installation of new front carriage doors, and new concrete shear walls to be California seismic-compliant. The Firehouse revival also includes a newly built ADU at the rear of the site.

Exterior of brick Oakland firehouse adaptively reused to provide housing units in California.
Interior brick wall and clerestory windows flooding modern design built house with light.
Reused bright red door maintains the charming aesthetic of a fireplace while modernizing the space for new inhabitants in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Modern warm interior kitchen architecture with wooden countertops, brick walls, large windows, and ceiling fans in adaptive reuse of an Oakland firehouse.
Exterior of adaptively reused Northern brick California firehouse with bright red door.
Entry gate for modern adaptive reuse design-build project in Oakland, California.

Architect
Baran Studio

Design Builder
Design Draw Build

General Contractor
Design Draw Build

Press
Dwell

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