Tim Gorter Architect


https://tim-gorter-architect.com/

Tim Gorter Architect (TGA) is a full-service design firm that explores architecture’s potential to heighten our experience of place and bring about more thoughtful, ecologically sensitive ways of living. Led by Tim Gorter, an architect with a background in painting and ecological design, the studio takes a conceptual approach to each of its projects, working with clients to translate their vision and priorities into spaces that fully embrace them. Alongside this, TGA researches and develops design concepts and novel construction approaches that reduce the environmental impact of building, explore new ideas in dense living, and envision more equitable and sustainable cities. Based in Santa Barbara, TGA is a locally minded studio, dedicated to design that engages the landscapes, ecological conditions, and architectural traditions of Southern California.

PROJECTS

In California, at Mar Vista Residence, the rational approach of mid-century modernism blends with warm finishes and contemporary architectural ideas

In California, at Mar Vista Residence, the rational approach of mid-century modernism blends with warm finishes and contemporary architectural ideas

For the Mar Vista Residence project, TGA upgrades and expands its client's modest home by amplifying its positive features and addressing the frustrations that its owner has experienced over the thirty years he has lived there. The redesign preserves the bones of the existing structure, but transforms it from a cramped, dark and outdated space into an open, sunlit home infused with a contemporary personality