Fabrication

GROW design+build offers custom design and fabrication of indoor and outdoor furnishings and architectural elements from retaining walls to fire pits, custom built-in benches and tables.  Our workshop in Alameda allows us to work with a wide range of materials and processes.

Our designs incorporate concrete, metal, unique salvaged wood and more.  Whether we are using a cmc router, water jet or welder, or casting a table top from concrete, we employ the same level of craft and attention to detail.  Many of our recent projects have included sunken fire pits with built-in benches and wind screens adapted to foggy and windy SF Bay Area climates.  The goal of each of our projects is to draw you into your outside space everyday…

We have a large network of sources for unique salvaged material; we are currently using old-growth Redwood and local old-growth Douglas Fir timbers, local Walnut slabs, reclaimed corten steel, and recycled colored glass agregate in concrete.  Our recent fire pit projects included cast in place colored and polished concrete walls, and Douglas Fir timber retaining walls surrounding a custom made old growth redwood dining table.

Our goal for each job is a net zero of materials ending up in the landfill.  This means we design sustainability into each phase of the design to eliminate waste.  Our creative reuse strategy starts with what we find in your space, if we excavate one area, we mound up another.

A recent project in the Marina included the reuse of a 50 year old concrete path; through cutting and grinding we turned the path into pavers for an outdoor dining area.  The impetus for the design solution was to prevent us from hauling 5 tons of material through a 3 foot wide door, down a hall and out the garage and into the landfill, only to haul in stone pavers.  We kept almost 10,000 lbs of waste out of the landfill, left 10,000 lbs of stone in the quarry and created a beautiful space with a deep connection to the site.

Please check out the before and after images of the materials we are using now in projects around the Bay Area…