PLANNING + DEVELOPMENT
ARCHITECTURE
145,000 Square feet, $28 Million, Mission Bay, San Francisco, CA
Mission Bay is a 300 acre post industrial district in San Francisco that is one of the biggest new Urban Mega-Projects in the country and represents a complete remaking of a shipping and manufacturing zoning district into a new post-modern residential and commercial city-within-a-city, including a new university campus. As such, the Mission Bay Senior Housing project is a truly mixed use project consisting of 140 one bedroom apartments for senior citizens, a branch library, and community office and meeting space. Done with HKI&T and Adele Santos, the project is situated towards the new restored Mission Creek and the massing allows a southern exposure courtyard to be created for seniors to use during the day. Units are modulated to allow for a modern interpretation of the bay window on a nine story scale in order to maximize space and light within the living space. Corridors are similarly designed to be sensitive to light use and views.
