Guerrero Stair Railing

Guerrero Stair Railing
Clients: Jamie Wieferman, Todd Wandell
Location: San Francisco, California

This is the first project of an ongoing renovation to a 100 year old house in the Mission District of San Francisco. The owners wanted a new stair that would eventually connect to a fourth floor addition and roof deck. The new components of the house will be modern, but must complement the existing Victorian architecture.

The articulation of detail on the exterior of the house is matched in our design for the new stair railing. The rail is CNC milled acrylic. The grain of the pattern reflects the direction of the movement through the space. The interior pattern, adjacent to the riser and tread of the stair, is predominantly vertical, while the opposite side is horizontal. Where the two patterns overlap, the acrylic is perforated and lined with a stainless steel attachment. The perforation is small enough to prevent a baby from passing through, but large enough for a cat (at the request of the client).