SAN FRANCISCO STATE - University Club

Pier Workplace Renovation - Programming and Interiors Remodel

- Interiors Remodel

The University Club project is a renovation of office space in the existing Cesar Chavez building at San Francisco State University into a private space for the University Club primarily for staff use and staff sponsored events. The project involved a change of use from office to assembly space, dictating an involved code research component showing the assembly space could be supported in the existing office space, with major changes to the fire suppression system. An Alternate Means and Methods Request was made, and granted, to use sprinklers at the existing windows, in lieu of a 1-hour rated assembly, as the code required.

The space converted to the University Club was a mezzanine level overlooking the University bookstore. An assembly hall lived above the space, and offices bordered it’s other wall. The building was a concrete structure, and thus there was no room to grow, making for a series of physical constraints in which to work around. The low ceiling height, dictated by triangulated concrete beams, drove the mechanical design, but also allowed for the design to provide more intimate and pubilc zones within the ceiling design.