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Project entry 2014 North America – Evolutionary Infrastructure: Adaptive reuse of a parking structure for cultural activities, San Francisco, CA, USA
A day lighting study provided the rules for removing a central portion of each floor plate, utilizing the most efficient sun angles throughout the day. An open air atrium is created serving to develop an experiential quality that does not seek to hide the former infrastructure, but instead glorify its natural aesthetics. The folded plate music hall is then visually connected both outside and in: sitting in the unavoidable shadow lines of adjacent buildings.
This project by a team of young designers explores the concept and potential of adaptive post-occupation of unused infrastructure in the city of San Francisco. Using a parking garage to create a scenario, the scheme proposes to convert the “found” structure – an “objet trouvé” in the city, so to speak – into a public building hosting a range of cultural activities.
Last updated: June 29, 2015 San Francisco, CA, USA
This project by a team of young designers explores the concept and potential of adaptive post-occupation of unused infrastructure in the city of San Francisco. Using a parking garage to create a scenario, the scheme proposes to convert the “found” structure – an “objet trouvé” in the city, so to speak – into a public building hosting a range of cultural activities.
The stacked floors of the garage and its circulation ramp are literally re-used to accommodate new functions. Additionally, new architectural elements are introduced, such as a performance hall which acts as cultural beacon on top of the garage, and an open air atrium cut through the slabs as public space. Adaptive reuse is here perceived as a strategy to reduce material flows in the city, using its material stock as opportunity for further development.
Read project feature in 4th Holcim Awards 2014/2015 (flip-book)