A couple of years ago we renovated an abandoned pasta factory in Oakland into affordable housing. This is part of a larger project for the Oakland Housing Authority called Tassafaronga Village - www.dbarchitect.com/Tassafaronga.

It had a beautiful wooden floor that had to be removed to install a shear diaphragm.  The contractor removed the flooring and gave us some which we put into storage. 

The floor has to be carefully sorted before being diagonal nailed down. The goal is to finish it in a minimal way so that it shows some of the evidence of it’s history.