3R Studio creates Bay Area ADU as a "backyard retreat" for living and working

The founders of California-based 3R Studio have created a compact, live-work unit for themselves called Evelyn ADU that consists of two gabled volumes connected by a glazed bridge.

Located in the rear yard of a 1938 home in Albany, a town near Berkeley, the project was designed "in response to the increasing density within the urban landscape of the Bay Area," said local firm 3R Studio.

The architecture firm's married co-founders Mai Tran and Le Pham bought the home in 2015, moved...