Presenters: Patrick Kennedy, Panoramic Interests, and David Trachtenberg, Trachtenberg Architects

Please join us in person to learn about Panoramic Interest’s prefabrication and modular construction odyssey. Panoramic focuses on dense, mixed-use, mixed-income, infill developments, typically financed with private funds. The firm’s projects incorporate the Smart Growth principles designed to discourage auto use, mitigate sprawl, encourage local business, and enhance the pedestrian streetscape. As part of this mission, the firm has long had an interest in small space design and prefab construction.

In 2013 Panoramic built a prefab studio apartment project in San Francisco’s south of Market, the first of its kind in the city. It used wood modules from a Sacramento firm, ZETA Communities. In 2018 it built a second prefab studio apartment project, in Berkeley, using steel modules from China. In January 2022, Panoramic will undertake its third prefab studio apartment project, with steel modules from Henderson, Nevada. It will be a 39 unit supportive housing development, at 1367 University Ave. Berkeley.

Meeting Location: Spats (Back Garden) 1974 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA 94704

Presenter Bios:

Mr. Kennedy grew up in the East Bay, and attended Claremont McKenna College, majoring in Economics and English. After college, he worked as a contractor, and then attended Harvard Law School and MIT, graduating with a J.D. and a Masters in Real Estate Development.

Mr. Trachtenberg is the Founding Principal of Trachtenberg Architects and a Registered California Architect. His firm has designed projects throughout California and in Berkeley, including Berkeley Bowl, the Read Building on Fourth Street, the La Farine Building on Solano, and Comal, as well as several multifamily residential projects. Mr. Trachtenberg is a graduate of UC Berkeley and the Harvard Graduate School of Design.