Office Bldgs.

Office Repositioning

Summer Fellowship / Gensler SF

Kamil Quinteros, D’Ali Roberts, Maria Doku + Myself

Semester: Summer 2022

Location: Downtown San Francisco, CA

Advisors: Doug Zucker, Amy Campbell + Jason Ambrose

Software: Rhino, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Indesign, google forms surveying

Single-use downtowns are vulnerable to resiliency. The covid-19 pandemic has accelerated a shift towards a new form of living, but the lack of economic diversity has slowed down the recovery for downtown San Francisco.

As a global city, downtown SF has the potential to experiment, influence and inspire cities alike to become more diverse and resilient. To intersect the public and private realms by creating meaningful interactions that form a new type of care within the financial district.

For this reason, the team proposed a series of interventions in downtown SF that would introduce new programs, diverse spaces, community gatherings, and the repositioning of empty office buildings to implement new spaces – specifically housing.

Section: Design Activity drawing created in collaboration with the gensler office studio