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North Shore Home 2008-2009
The client’s program was for a 2500 square foot four bedroom three bath two-storey home to replace the previous house destroyed by fire. Client wanted to maximize garden space and potential for mountain and ocean views. Second floor Great Room offers both ocean and mountain views. Owner’s office faces the south Ko`olau loa mountains. A [...]
What is a Spacecraft?
What is a Spacecraft? In Spacecrafting, we seek to design habitations that go beyond the typical requirements people associate with buildings. To properly design spacecraft, we design a dwelling or space habitation that is a complete system. Rather than create a building that occupies land, we create a building that is symbiotic with the landscape [...]
Interview of Jessë Valentine Portz, by Riley Shiraishi
Email Interview of Jessë Valentine Portz, Architect by Riley Shiraishi Monday, October 17, 2011 RS: 1. How long have you been working in your trade? JVP: I studied architecture for 6 years before graduating. I have been working in architecture for about 20 years. RS: 2. What do you enjoy about your job? JVP: I enjoy taking many requirements [...]
Kailua Beach House 2007
Project consisted of two separate four bedroom houses on an approximately 8500 square foot lot fronting the beach in Kailua. The owner desired the main house on the beach end to be one large open space for kitchen, dining and living areas with a continuos view of adjoining areas and the ocean. The guest house [...]
Building Today for the Needs Of Tomorrow
The Big Picture of Sustainable Construction for Hawaii Sustainability and green design are buzzwords that have taken over the design and construction industry. Hawaii is a state that cares deeply about sustainability; after all, we live on a small chain of islands that are easily cut off from the rest of the world. We are [...]
Jessë Valentine Portz: Architect
Jessë Valentine Portz is the founder and principal architect of Spacecraft LLC, an architecture, design and master planning consultancy. Spacecraft LLC’s most notable built work can be seen in Hāʻula on the island of Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi. Jessë Valentine was the sole architect of record and designer of a comfortable contemporary tropical home with fabulous views, [...]
Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights Movement Monument Competition Entry
Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights Movement Monument Competition Entry Washington D.C. produced in collaboration Anthony Allen: master planner Jesse Valentine Portz: architect The planning of this memorial is designed around the visitor’s procession through the monument, which represents the history of people of African ancestry in America. Entering from the parking lot, visitors [...]
Studio Space for Artist and Poet
This was a school project in the second year architecture design studio to create a working studio for two clients. The site was urban San Francisco infill with street frontage on the two short sides. The clients were a poet and ceramicist. The female ceramicist did delicately colored pieces and required more space for equipment [...]
