VISITACION VALLEY SCHLAGE LOCK SAN FRANCISCO, CA | 2012

Open Space and Streetscape Master Plan

Project Team: AECOM, GLS Landscape & Architecture and A+D Architecture and Design

Client: Visitacion Development LLC

The planning for the Schlage Lock site has been under way for more than a decade. When a proposal for a Home Depot (2000) was met with community opposition, a collaborative planning process between the community and the City of San Francisco was launched to revitalize Visitacion Valley. The Process examined how to reuse the Schlage Lock site in a

Greenway Park

Design Overview

Old Office

Design Overview

Blanken Park and the that together form one open space system.

Greenway Park is a long, narrow park located along Street A (where the street splits into two one-way roads), between Visitacion and Sunnydale Avenues. The Design for Development document states that this space was modeled after San Francisco’s South Park; thus, the Open Space and Streetscape Master Plan proposes the design of this park as a garden with tree-lined edges and programmed with a few single-use activities. Two elements of the site’s history are celebrated in the Greenway: the rail line trace here becomes a double line of trees, and a rain garden punctuates the end of the park at the location where marshlands used to exist in the Valley.

The uses around the Greenway Park are primarily residential, with narrower streets that allow residents to view into and across the Greenway easily. The specific amenities recommended for the Greenway include a playground, a half basketball court, a flower garden for strolling, and two smaller multiuse lawn areas with picnic tables and benches. The court area will be striped to accommodate other sport activities as well. It will not be specifically lit for night use. The linear swale and rain garden occupy the eastern and southern portions of the park. A park shelter or gazebo (about 200 square feet) is proposed on the paved northwest point of the Greenway, acting as a marker and opportunity site for local public art displays, as well as a shade, rain, and wind shelter.

Development Site Plan Section Through Blanken Park

Blanken Park is located on the northeast corner of Building 1B. The given its on-structure incompatible with railroad sible. Two separate It is important to note additional restrictions have not yet been tested way that benefits the existing neighborhood. The planning effort culminated in 2009 with the adoption of the Visitacion Valley Redevelopment Plan and the Design For Development document. This Open Space and Streetscape Master Plan is one of the first implementation documents for the reuse of the Schlage Lock site.

Office Building Plazas and Blanken Park

Overview the Old Office Building (OOB) Plazas, as shown in Figure 37, are interconnected spaces one of the site’s three main parks. They form both the terminus of and gateway to the site’s system. located at the corner of Blanken Avenue and Tunnel Road, above the railroad tunnel located corner of the site and extending south between the west side of the tracks and the east side open space above the tunnel presents some limitations and some unique opportunities on-structure condition. It has load-bearing capacity restrictions and some recreational programs are railroad safety, but it is also the only portion of the site where food production may be pos separate enclosed areas for community gardens above and adjacent to the tunnel are proposed. note that Blanken Park is not within the developer’s ownership, thus it is potentially subject to restrictions imposed by JPB and Union Pacific Railroad, its current owners. Additionally, these sites tested for potential contaminants that may restrict food growing.

Redevelopment

KENNETH HENRY COURT OAKLAND, CA | 2012

Multi-family Affordable Housing Renovation

Project Team: Studio Perez and Salazar Architects

Client: Satellite Affordable Housing Associates

PLAZA ADELANTE SAN FRANCISCO, CA | 2010

Mission Resource Center

A+D, Architecture and Design

Client: Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA) third floor second floor ground floor third floor lobby section a-a

The Mission Resource Center (Plaza Adelante) poses to combine a number of non-profit organizations operating out of different areas in San Francisco into a single location in the Mission District. The project looks at the high level of interaction between these organizations and explores the ways within which the architectural elements can promote and foster further connections and future interactions. The renovated 1901 building uses transparency and overlapping multifunctional spaces to merge the public spaces of the building with the semi-public areas of the individual organization headquarter spaces. Responsibilities included producing 100% CD, coordinating consultants and the design of five tenant improvements. Photographs by Theodore

TORQUED HOUSE LOS ALTOS HILLS, CA | 2006

Janick Residence | Design Proposal

Visible Research Office

Main House

The site characteristic of this residence desire to live below in the meadow raison d’ete. The torqued movement views from the meadow with outwa pavilions which grow in complexity as below while the main house located 56’x20’x8’ bar constructed with prefabricated The cooper expanded mesh is created performative in that the apertures change a sun break. My duties included conceptual and assembling competition submittals.

The site characteristic of this residence is an open meadow which turns quickly into a heavily wooded slope. The desire to live below in the meadow during the day and move up the hill each night gave the buildings their raison d’ete. The torqued movement comes from a contrapuntal reading of the site, juxtaposing inward looking views from the meadow with guest house garage esidence is an open meadow which tur ns quickly into a heavily wooded slope. The during the day and move up the hill each night gave the buildings their comes from a contrapuntal reading of the site, juxtaposing inward looking rd looking views from above. The program is dispersed into a series of as they move up the hill. The guest house and garage frame the meadow on the slope takes advantage of distant views. Each pavilion starts as a efabricated modular parts that are modified depending upon site conditions. eated through a custom laser cut patter n. The skin can be understood to be change to direct views, create privacy screens, and allows the skin to act as conceptual diagramming, designing building in plan, section and elevation, submittals. outward looking views from above. The program is dispersed into a series of pavilions which grow in complexity as they move up the hill. The guest house and garage frame the meadow below while the main house located on the slope takes advantage of distant views. Each pavilion starts as a 56’x20’x8’ bar constructed with prefabricated modular parts that are modified depending upon site conditions. The cooper expanded mesh is created through a custom laser cut pattern. The skin can be understood to be performative in that the apertures change to direct views, create privacy screens, and allows the skin to act as a sun break. My duties included conceptual diagramming, designing building in plan, section and elevation, and assembling competition submittals.