Shift Design Studio
Established: 1997
Shift Design Studio was founded as a one-woman design practice run as an arts studio specializing in personalized design of buildings, interiors and landscapes. Certified as a 'Climate Positive, Green Business’, Shift Design Studio offers full services for commercial, residential and civic projects, from pre-design research through design, permitting and construction administration, with an emphasis on sustainability (materials, energy, lifestyle) and universal design (ADA, disabled access, aging in place). Project management, permit expediting, budget coordination, color consulting, arts services, materials selections, interior design and custom furnishings are available for projects of any size.
Residential Renovation
Location: Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand
Project: Interior and exterior renovation
Client: Residential
Services: Full Architectural Services: Design; Materials Selection; Construction Detailing; Art Selection; Project Management.
Woven bamboo panels conceal structural plywood fastened to ceiling joists. This assembly covers 1950s peeling wallpaper while adding earthquake safety to living areas under concrete roof tiles and pulling sagging areas back into level. Avoiding removal of the existing ceiling shortened the construction time while reducing cost, mess, and landfill as well as potential exposure to hazardous materials. Factory-finished panels minimise paint and honour the beauty of renewable natural materials. Luminous gold-painted negative detail and discretely placed off-the-shelf lighting create a polished island-vibe style on a tight bach-vibe budget. Installation by Christie Construction. Fine art painting is by Aotearoa New Zealand artist Aria Hinewai Parker (courtesy of Māorilands, Otaki).
Residential Interior
Location: San Francisco, CA
Project: Interior renovation
Client: Residential
Services: Full Architectural Services: Design; Materials Selection; Permitting; Construction Detailing; Project Management.
Residential Interior
Location: San Francisco, CA
Project: Interior renovation
Client: Residential
Services: Full Architectural Services: Design; Materials Selection; Permitting; Construction Detailing; Project Management.
Residential Landscape
Location: San Francisco, CA
Project: Landscape
Client: Residential
Services: Full Landscape Architecture Services: Design; Materials/Plants Selection; Permitting; Construction Detailing; Planting; Project Management.
Residential & Civic Landscape
Location: San Francisco, CA
Project: Front yard renovation
Client: Residential
Concept: Social exchange between private and public space.
Function: Converted 100% paved driveway into planted oasis; Extended 'effective front yard' by 16' into shared public space.
Sustainability: All recyclable materials; Low maintenance design; Native and climate-adapted self-propagating plant species; Local materials; 100% Rainwater diversion.
Services: Design; Materials and Plants Selection; Historic Landmarks Review; Permitting; Construction Detailing; Sourcing/Ordering; Project Management; Plant Installation; Custom Sculptural Topiary Triceratops Fabrication; Color Consulting; Post-Construction Services
Components: Garden, Stairs, Custom Furnishings, Custom Gate, Custom Railing, Sidewalk Landscaping, Parklet
Residential Landscape
Location: San Francisco, CA
Project: Front yard renovation
Client: Residential
Concept: Social exchange between private and public space.
Function: Converted 100% paved driveway into planted oasis; Extended 'effective front yard' by 16' into shared public space.
Sustainability: All recyclable materials; Low maintenance design; Native and climate-adapted self-propagating plant species; Local materials; 100% Rainwater diversion.
Services: Design; Materials and Plants Selection; Historic Landmarks Review; Permitting; Construction Detailing; Sourcing/Ordering; Project Management; Plant Installation; Custom Sculptural Topiary Triceratops Fabrication; Color Consulting; Post-Construction Services
Components: Garden, Stairs, Custom Furnishings, Custom Gate, Custom Railing, Sidewalk Landscaping, Parklet
Commercial Retail Storefront
Location: San Francisco, CA
Project: Storefront renovation
Client: Retail
Services: Full Architectural Services: Design; Materials Selection; Permitting; Construction Detailing; Project Management; Landscape design and installation.
Components: Reconfigured storefront; Custom signage; Lighting; Custom recess security gate; Container planting.
Commercial Retail Storefront
Location: San Francisco, CA
Project: Storefront renovation
Client: Retail
Services: Full Architectural Services: Design; Materials Selection; Permitting; Construction Detailing; Project Management; Landscape design and installation.
Components: Reconfigured storefront; Custom signage; Lighting; Custom recess security gate; Container planting.
Commercial Office Interior
Location: San Francisco, CA
Project: Complete renovation of 7,000sf firehouse (built 1908)
Client: Advertising Agency
Services: Full Architectural Services: Design; Materials Selection; Permitting; Historic Preservation Review; Construction Detailing; Project Management; Furnishings Selections.
Components: Custom furnishings and fixtures; Lighting; Reconfigured floor openings; 3-story fireman's pole; Custom doors; Custom railings.
Commercial Office Interior
Location: San Francisco, CA
Project: Complete renovation of 7,000sf firehouse (built 1908)
Client: Advertising Agency
Services: Full Architectural Services: Design; Materials Selection; Permitting; Historic Preservation Review; Construction Detailing; Project Management; Furnishings Selections.
Components: Custom furnishings and fixtures; Lighting; Reconfigured floor openings; 3-story fireman's pole; Custom doors; Custom railings.
Commercial Office Interior
Location: San Francisco, CA
Project: Complete renovation of 7,000sf firehouse (built 1908)
Client: Advertising Agency
Services: Full Architectural Services: Design; Materials Selection; Permitting; Historic Preservation Review; Construction Detailing; Project Management; Furnishings Selections.
Components: Custom furnishings and fixtures; Lighting; Reconfigured floor openings; 3-story fireman's pole; Custom doors; Custom railings.
Commercial Office Interior
Location: San Francisco, CA
Project: Complete renovation of 7,000sf firehouse (built 1908)
Client: Advertising Agency
Services: Full Architectural Services: Design; Materials Selection; Permitting; Historic Preservation Review; Construction Detailing; Project Management; Furnishings Selections.
Components: Custom furnishings and fixtures; Lighting; Reconfigured floor openings; 3-story fireman's pole; Custom doors; Custom railings.
Commercial Office Interior
Location: San Francisco, CA
Project: Complete renovation of 7,000sf firehouse (built 1908)
Client: Advertising Agency
Services: Full Architectural Services: Design; Materials Selection; Permitting; Historic Preservation Review; Construction Detailing; Project Management; Furnishings Selections.
Components: Custom furnishings and fixtures; Lighting; Reconfigured floor openings; 3-story fireman's pole; Custom doors; Custom railings.
Commercial Office Interior
Location: San Francisco, CA
Project: Complete renovation of 7,000sf firehouse (built 1908)
Client: Advertising Agency
Services: Full Architectural Services: Design; Materials Selection; Permitting; Historic Preservation Review; Construction Detailing; Project Management; Furnishings Selections.
Components: Custom furnishings and fixtures; Lighting; Reconfigured floor openings; 3-story fireman's pole; Custom doors; Custom railings.
Urban Sidewalk Garden
Location: San Francisco, CA
Project: Sidewalk Landscaping, bicycle parking, custom seating
Client: Waldorf Grade School
Services: Design; Materials Selection; Permitting; Planting Facilitation Workshop, Project Management.
Residential Landscape
Location: San Francisco, CA
Project: Landscape
Client: Residential
Services: Full Landscape Architecture Services: Design; Materials/Plants Selection; Permitting; Construction Detailing; Planting; Project Management.
Residential Renovation
Location: San Francisco, CA
Project: Architectural renovation
Client: Residential
Services: Full Architectural Services: Design; Materials Selection; Permitting; Construction Detailing; Project Management.
Public Park
Location: Guerrero/San Jose/28th Street, San Francisco, CA
Project: Temporary conversion of excess street to park. (2009-2012; renovated and extended to 2017)
Client: San Francisco Planning Department
Services: Design; Materials and Plants Selection; Permitting; Construction Detailing; Project Management; Inter-agency Liaison; Plant Installation Workshop.
Urban Plaza Renovation
PRESS: The New Fillmore
Location: Fillmore at O'Farrell Streets, San Francisco, CA
Project: Existing Plaza renovation
Client: Civic
Concept: Interpretation of Adinkra symbols, Botanical Gardens (African Plants)
Function: Enliven existing public space
Sustainability: All recyclable materials; Low maintenance design; Climate-adapted self-propagating plant species; Local materials; Rainwater diversion.
Services: Design; Materials and Plants Selection; Construction Detailing; Sourcing/Ordering; Project Management; Plant Installation (workshop facilitation); Custom Planter/Bench Design, Cultural Programming, Interpretive Signage Design, Post-Construction Services
Components: De-paving, Custom Furnishings, Cultural Program, Botanical Gardens (African species), Interpretive Signage
Public Park
Location: Naples/Geneva Streets, San Francisco, CA
Project: Conversion of excess street to park.
Client: San Francisco Planning Department
Concept: Meander
Sustainability: Stormwater diversion (8,000 sf)
Services: Design; Materials and Plants Selection.
Commercial Parklet
Location: San Francisco, CA
Project: Parklet
Client: Commercial
Photo Credit: Venga Empanada
Concept: Combine street space with sidewalk.
Function: Connect parklet and sidewalk landscape permits to create new depth of space in this typology.
Sustainability: All recyclable materials; Low maintenance design; Native and climate-adapted self-propagating plant species; Local materials; Rainwater retention.
Services: Design; Materials and Plants Selection; Permitting; Construction Detailing; Sourcing/Ordering; Project Management; Plant Installation; Color Consulting.
Components: Sidewalk Landscaping, Parklet
Food Retail Tenant Improvement
Location: The Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA
Project: Interior Renovation in Historic Building
Client: Ice Cream Shop (Humphry Slocombe)
Services: Full Architectural Services: Design; Materials Selection; Permitting; Construction Detailing; Custom furnishings; Project Management.
Mixed-Use Renovation
Location: San Francisco, CA
Project: Office, Storefront and Facade renovation
Client: Commercial Office [Shift Design Studio 1998-2006]
Services: Full Architectural Services: Design; Materials Selection; Permitting; Construction Detailing; Fabrication; Project Management; Landscape design and installation.
Mixed-Use Renovation
Location: San Francisco, CA
Project: Office, Storefront and Facade renovation
Client: Commercial Office [Shift Design Studio 1998-2006]
Services: Full Architectural Services: Design; Materials Selection; Permitting; Construction Detailing; Fabrication; Project Management; Landscape design and installation.
Residential Kitchen Remodel
Location: San Francisco, CA
Project: Kitchen renovation
Client: Residential
Services: Full Architectural Services: Design; Materials Selection; Permitting; Construction Detailing; Project Management.
Commercial Nursery Sidewalk Garden
Location: San Francisco, CA
Project: Sidewalk Landscaping
Client: Retail Plant Nursery
Services: Design; Materials Selection; Permitting.
Mixed-Use Renovation
Location: San Francisco, CA
Project: Office, Storefront and Facade renovation
Client: Commercial Office [Shift Design Studio 1998-2006]
Services: Full Architectural Services: Design; Materials Selection; Permitting; Construction Detailing; Fabrication; Project Management; Landscape design and installation.
Residential Sidewalk Garden
Location: San Francisco, CA
Project: Landscape
Client: Residential
Services: Full Landscape Architecture Services: Design; Materials/Plants Selection; Permitting; Construction Detailing; Project Management.
Residential Garden Renovation
Location: Glen Ellen, CA
Project: Landscaping renovation
Client: Residential
Services: Design; Materials Selection; Landscape Installation.
Urban Sidewalk Garden
Location: San Francisco, CA
Project: Sidewalk Landscaping
Client: Commercial Office
Services: Design; Materials Selection; Permitting.
Residential Interior
Location: San Francisco, CA
Project: Interior renovation
Client: Residential
Services: Full Architectural Services: Design; Materials Selection; Permitting; Construction Detailing; Project Management.
Residential Interior
Location: San Francisco, CA
Project: Interior renovation
Client: Residential
Services: Full Architectural Services: Design; Materials Selection; Permitting; Construction Detailing; Project Management.
Mixed-use Renovation
Location: San Francisco, CA
Project: Interior renovation
Client: Residence and Office [Shift Design Studio 2007-present]
Services: Full Architectural Services: Design; Materials Selection; Permitting; Construction Detailing; Project Management; Landscape design and installation.
Residential Landscape
Location: San Francisco, CA
Project: Landscape
Client: Residential
Services: Full Landscape Architecture Services: Design; Materials/Plants Selection; Permitting; Construction Detailing; Planting; Project Management.
Commercial Gate
Location: San Francisco, CA
Project: Custom Gate
Client: Commercial Office
Services: Design; Materials Selection; Permitting; Construction Detailing; Project Management
Commercial Interior
Location: San Francisco, CA
Project: Law Office and Art Gallery Interior
Client: Commercial Office and Art Gallery
Services: Full Architectural Services: Design; Materials Selection; Permitting; Construction Detailing; Project Management.
Contemporary Dance Instruction
Concept: Language through movement
Commissioned by: Danze Comun, Bogota, Colombia
Services: Live performance and teaching
Stereoscopic Painting
Title: T/Here (Still Life)
Concept: Objects as they are seen; foreground and background converge.
Medium: Watercolor
Exhibited: MM Galleries, San Francisco
Painting & Drawing
Title: 'After Velasquez'
Concept: A study in spatial relationships.
Medium: Pencil and Watercolor
Exhibited: Private Collection, North Carolina
Video & Dance Performance
Title: 'PlayGround'
Medium: Live performance with video
Exhibited: Dance Mission Theater
Conceptual Painting
Title: "Anywhere a Cat Can Go" (48 Prepositions of the English language)
Medium: Watercolor
Non-profit Organization
Project: Since 2003, Shift Design Studio has pioneered replacing excess urban concrete with sustainable gardens. Jane Martin founded Plant*SF in 2004 in order to establish and promote the city's formal process. She co-authored San Francisco's Sidewalk Landscaping Permit with the Department of Public Works under the direction of the Mayor's Office. In place since 2006, more than 1,500 applications have been filed and more than 100,000 square feet have been converted. Further, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (sewer authority) has formally adopted the practice as a strategy for diverting rainwater from the overloaded sewer system and for increasing freshwater reserves in local aquifers. Now emeritus, Ms Martin continues to consult on public space greening and provide design services.
Services: Shift Design Studio provides services for citywide demonstration projects, including Concepts, Grant Writing, Agency Liaison, Design, Permitting, Project Management, Planting Workshops, and Educational Tours.
Project Presentations, Teaching & Speaking Engagements
Jane Martin presents the work of Shift Design Studio and Plant*SF locally and internationally. Presentation content and format are tailored to the audience, be they school children, engineers, contractors, garden clubs, university students or government officials.
Invitations for guest lectures, conference panels, teaching, project tours, policy development, arts performance, workshop demonstrations, speaking engagements and other creative projects are welcome.
Aotearoa, Land and Sea
Watercolour and Pencil
Architecture | Landscape | Art | Design | Accessibility | Sustainability
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