Office Creation
Urban Reclaimation
Our West Berkeley offices are located in a sitecast concrete structure dating from the 1940s. In 1997, Swerve founder Michael Goldin rennovated the original structure, eliminating several non-bearing walls to create a breezily open plan, adding contemporary office workstations to facilitate the flow of work through the space, and constructing a cleanly modern CMU structure behind the office to house our large CNC machines. The result of this modernization is a set of spaces well suited to our design-build process: ideas begin deep in the office, move outward as the design is refined and given materiality, work their way down to the shop floor for prototyping and, when the design is fully fleshed out, full-scale production.
