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Connecting Communities | San Francisco Spring 2022 | BSLA Landscape Architecture Capstone Studio
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“Do you want to stay in San Francisco? Then let’s fight for what we want! You are worthy. Don’t accept less than you deserve!” - Marie Harrison
Campaign Advisor, Organizer and Board Member of GreenAction at Bayview HuntersPoint
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C O N T E N T S 4
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Background
Goals + Objectives
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Studio Topic
Sites + Context
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Urban Designs:
Urban Designs:
Crane Cove to Carolina Green Space
Islais Creek
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Urban Designs:
Appedices:
India Basin
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Case Study Research Next Steps Acknowledgements
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B A C K G R O U N D 6
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The Blue Greenway is a proposed 13-mile long + 1-mile depth public open space corridor, in a former industrial district, that connects communities along San Francisco’s South-East edge.
The Blue Greenway imagines a network of parks, trails, beaches and bay access points along 13 miles of San Francisco’s southeastern waterfront. The Blue Greenway will link established open spaces; create new recreational opportunities and green infrastructure; provide public access through the implementation of the San Francisco Bay Trail, the San Francisco Bay Water Trail, and green corridors to surrounding neighborhoods; install public art and interpretive elements; support stewardship; and advocate for full waterfront access as an element of all planning and development processes throughout southeastern San Francisco now and for all time.* *Excerpt from the San Francisco Parks Alliance website: https://www.sfparksalliance.org/our-work/programs/blue-greenway
Source: San Francisco Parks Alliance
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The Ohlone People
A Tragedy Against Indigenous People: The Story of the Ohlone
Long before European settlers made their way to San Francisco, the Ohlone people called the area home. They lived along the coast, from the San Francisco Bay, through Monterey Bay, to the lower Salinas Valley. They consisted of more than 50 distinct landholding groups, who did not view themselves as a distinct group. They hunted, fished, gathered and were the original stewards of the Bay Area, preserving and protecting its plentiful natural resources.
Source: Native Land CA
Life in an Ohlone Village Near San Francisco Bay - 4000 BCE. Source: National Parks Service
The arrival of European settlers was devastating to the Ohlone tribal groups. The population of the Ohlone was reduced from over 20,000 Ohlone speaking people, who inhabited the greater San Francisco/ Monterey Bay regions in 1769, to less than 2,000 by 1810. The Ohlone people were systematically killed and forced to live in the Missions around the Bay Area. They were denied their cultural and spiritual practices as well as their religion. The present-day Muwekma Ohlone Tribe is comprised of all of the known surviving American Indian lineages aboriginal to the San Francisco Bay region, who trace their ancestry through the Missions Dolores, Santa Clara, and San Jose.
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An Industrial Beginning The historic Long Bridge, which connected the Potrero, Dogpatch, Bayview-Hunters Point Districts across Mission Bay, not only influenced industry employment southeast, but industry workers began to live in the area as well. As residents moved southeast, city officials thought of Mission Bay as the ideal relocation spot for the sediment of hills they planned to flatten. During this time, the idea was to flatten hills for more accessibility. Source (above): Found San Francisco
Today, San Francisco’s southeast coast is home to communities of people, native ecosystems, diverse industry, & more. Separated from city proper, the once calm and protected waterfront of Puerto Nuevo, soon became an epicenter for the growing city’s industry. In 1852, PG&E opened a coal and oil fired power plant, which remained a resident in the neighborhood until 2006. As development of downtown continued to grow, early city ordinance pushed dangerous industries out of city lines.
Source (above): Found San Francisco
Environmental impacts continued to rise, as communities and industries attempted to live together. San Francisco’s southeastern neighborhoods are scarred by pollution from factories and shipyards, and residents now demand environmental justice. Today southeast San Francisco is undergoing various remediation projects along the shoreline for a clean, green future.
Source (left): Alamy Stock Photo
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G O A L S + O B J E C T I V E S 10
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Place Identity - Building on the existing community character to invite public use.
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Health and Ecology - Brownfield
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remediation to restore healthy and secure places for people and native habitats.
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Connection - An open space corridor that connects the southeastern neighborhoods to each other and to the Bay.
The Capstone Studio crafted an overall urban design narrative as a macro -scale, connective framework, and within this system, connected communities through a place-based story - incorporating a series of micro-scale sites within the Blue Greenway corridor, in the City of San Francisco. The ultimate connective corridor creates a linked urban, green infrastructure of public spaces, fusing the design of these spaces with the community and context. Students executed advanced site research and analysis, developed a framework position and argument, envisioned design strategies that responded to contextual issues, and crafted physical design and planning proposals to address their initiatives.
Students presenting mapping analysis in San Francisco, 2022
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S T U D I O T O P I C 12
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The Blue Greenway is a multi-agency effort to create an interconnected system of trails and parks on San Francisco’s southeast waterfront.
The new open space corridor will connect neighborhoods, and to the waterfront. The southeastern neighborhoods have been plagued by the loss of the city’s maritime industries and the environmental contamination that these industries left behind. The Blue Greenway brings together numerous governments, private sector, and nonprofit efforts to clean up toxic contaminants along the waterfront and turn these formerly unusable parcels of land into areas for public enjoyment, active recreation, and economic activity. The Cal Poly Pomona Capstone Studio is collaborating with The San Francisco Parks Alliance to connect identified disconnected portions of the Blue Greenway within three distinct areas, at a macroframework scale, as well as with a micro-site-scale urban concept design.
The Blue Greenway Client : Year : Location Description :
The San Francisco Parks Alliance 2022 San Francisco, California The Blue Greenway will become a series of public open spaces: 13 miles of waterfront parks and trails running from AT&T Park south to Candlestick Point. The Blue Greenway will provide active transportation routes connecting San Francisco’s growing eastern coast neighborhoods with the employment centers of Mission Bay and downtown. The Blue Greenway will also provide much-needed open space, habitat restoration, recreation, and active transportation opportunities for the city’s lowest-income and most underserved neighborhoods.
West Islais Creek Edge, 2022
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S I T E S + C O N T E X T 14
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Students will investigate and address three macro connective contexts of the Blue Greenway Corridor, in which disconnections existed.
Site Mapping + Analysis is the diagraming of historical development, contextual connections, access/circulation, physical morphology and system relationships of a site and context - through analyzing and plotting critical site characteristics, patterns, associations and relationships. Mapping was not meant to propose design, rather its purpose is to reveal findings to inform design. Each student team was required to complete mapping at two scales, that together contribute to informing each micro site within its larger macro context. Each student team investigated, mapped and analyzed critical physical systems, patterns, connections, associations and relationships of their site within the Blue Greenway (micro-scale) and its associated framework context (macro-scale).
Crane Cove to Carolina Greenspace Size/Area : Location : Description :
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550 Acres South East San Francisco The 22nd Street Green Connection will create environmentally-friendly links between Illinois Street and the Blue Greenway and future development and open space to the 22nd Street Caltrain station at Iowa Street, to the Potrero
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Hill Recreation Center. Parks linked include Crane Cove Park and the Carolina Green Space, created
Photo (above): Dogpatch Neighborhood
by Potrero Hill neighbors, to improve the safety and beauty of our large median on Carolina St.
Islais Creek Size/Area : Location : Description :
MIDDLE
325 Acres South East San Francisco The original Islais Creek watershed included wetlands to the east, the creek and its north and south branches stretching west. Today, most of the hard-edged creek has been forced underground into San Francisco’s
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sewer system, where it remains out of sight, except when it bursts its bonds during the rainy
Photo (above): Islais Creek
season, and floods Alemany Boulevard, at its intersections with Highway 101 and I-280.
India Basin Size/Area : Location : Description :
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650 Acres South East San Francisco The remediation at India Basin will remove an estimated 3,500 cubic yards of contaminated sediment and dilapidated infrastructure to allow for the creation of 0.20-0.30 acres of tidal
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marsh habitat, and will provide the Bayview Hunters Point community with Photo (left): India Basin Remediation 2.4 acres of open waterfront space.
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Macro Framework Site Contexts
San Francisco Bay
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Crane Cove to Carolina Green Space
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MIDDLE Islais Creek 325 Acres
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SOUTH India Basin 650 Acres
San Francisco Bay
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Crane Cove to Carolina Green Space
San Francisco Bay
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Islais Creek
San Francisco Bay
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India Basin
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NORTH Framework
Crane Cove to Carolina Green Space
The Northern Macro Framework area spans from the newly built Crane Cove Park - a 7-acre urban park in San Francisco, California, located on the city’s east-facing waterfront. The park opened in 2020. The site used to be a shipbuilding site occupied by the Union Iron Works and the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation to Carolina Greenspace. Carolina is now an inspired neighborhood park, nestled within an open green space boulevard, as a central core of the street. This Macro Framework is 550 acres in size and focuses on connecting urban neighborhoods, community parks and green street(s) to the waterfront.
Macro Framework Boundary
San Francisco Bay
Source: Google Earth
Urban Design Sites 1 The Verdant Channel :
Tiffany Shih + Madlena Hairabedyan
Spaces in Between :
Kamran Ghandhy + Justin Randig
Healing Hills :
Lisa Namekawa + Elizabeth Zarate
Tunnel Top to Warm Water Cove Connecticut St. to Tennessee St. Potrero Ave. to Missouri St.
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The Verdant Channel, in collaboration with San Francisco Parks Alliance, addresses the challenges ofestablishing connections for the Blue Greenway east to west. Our attendance in San Francisco brought usrealizations of the daily challenges the Dogpatch community faces. We encountered inaccessible routes, a lack of comfort and wayfi nding to our site, and the density of the air due to the pollution caused by the surrounding industrial infrastructure. The design principles of The Verdant Channel include connecting existing street infrastructure, ecological restoration, multi-modal transportation, human connectivity, and health equity. Providing residents a feeling of belonging by reconnecting disconnected streets, revitalizing and healing/remediating the waterfront, and providing a healthier environment for the local community.
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Site Research & Mapping Analysis
The Blue Greenway | North-Crane Cove to Carolina Green Space THE VERDANT CHANNEL Tunnel Top to Warm Water Cove Tiffany Shih + Madlena Hairabedyan
TOPOGRAPHY + CLIMATE
10 MINUTE DRIVE TO
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HISTORICAL + SOCIAL Linking established
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open spaces;
GOLD RUSH
advocating for full waterfront access as an element of all planning and development throughout southeastern San Francisco.
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ECOLOGY + HYDROLOGY
Warm Water Cove, known as “Toxic Beach”, is home to different species of sh who are attracted to warm water. Though currently inactive, Portrero Power Plant contributed to warming the water but also was a main contributer to pollution. Its affects are still observed today.
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PELICANS Vulnerability: 17% lost at a 34.7 F increase
LEOPARD SHARK
Mercury Mean Concentration = 951 ppb PCB Mean Concentration = 14 ppb
METAL TOXICITY LEVELS IN ISLAIS CREEK WATERSHED ZINC
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MAPPING
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Site Water
“SIMPLY BY LIVING IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD, MY LIFE HAS BEEN REDUCED BY 15 YEARS”
location where
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MAPPING
HEALTH IMPLICATIONS
TOXIC HOTSPOT
1 Environment
individuals and population groups to elevated risks of adverse health effects.
2 Genetics
60 / 10,000 people
visited the E.R. for a heart attack
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asthma rate is higher compared to California average Potrero Hill Power Plant
CalEnviroScreen 4.0. 2015-2017
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE Causes: 1 Lack of Exercise 2 Smoking
CONTAMINANTS
3 Air Pollution
predisposition to air pollution drastically increases the risk of death after hear t attack
PM 2.5 consists of: - organic chemicals - dust - soot - metals
most sensitive to: - children - elderly - individuals w/ underlying health conditions
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CalEnviroScreen 4.0. 2015-2017
LUNG CANCER Causes: Gas 1 Radon due to earthquakes
2 Air Pollution due to exhaust,
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Deaths:
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Legend: = 100 people "Lung Cancer Deaths (2013)” Map. Social Explorer.
- ARIEANN HARRISON
Founder of Marie Harrison Foundation
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Key Map
EET T THIRD STR LIGHT RAIL 3RD STREET
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CIRCULATION
KEY OBSERVATIONS: - Disconnected bike lanes - 4 bike lanes intersecting our site - Lack of bus stops & bus routes within our site
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- High trafc area with different modes of transportation
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Urban Site Research Contextual & Mapping Framework Analysis + Strategies
The Blue | North-Crane Cove toto Carolina Green Space North-CraneCove Carolina Green Space TheVERDANT BlueGreenway Greenway | CHANNEL North-Crane Cove to Carolina Green Space THE Tunnel Top to Warm Water Cove Tiffany Shih + Madlena Hairabedyan
FRAMEWORK VISION PLAN
MULT TRAN
HUMAN CONNECTIVITY
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Key Map
ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION
Providing local residents a feeling of belonging by reconnecting disconnected streets, revitalizing and healing/remediating the waterfront, and providing a healthier environment for the local community.
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Blue Greenway
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Areas In Need Of Remediation
Private Green Space
Tree Canopy
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FRAMEWORK + STRATEGIES
TI-MODAL NSPORTATION
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Urban Contextual Framework + Strategies
INFRASTRUCTURAL STRATEGIES
The Blue Greenway |
• CONNECTING EXISTING STREET INFRASTRUCTURE:
Tunnel Top to Warm Water
North-CraneCove to Carolina Green Space
Linking together disconnected streets and pedestrian paths for accessibility between open spaces. Cove
Tiffany Shih + Madlena Hairabedyan
• MULTI-MODAL TRANSPORTATION:
Integrating and improving public transport, designated bike lanes, and pedestrian walkways for easier means of circulation to and from the waterfront.
6'-6"
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IMPLEMENTING MORE BUS STOPS
20TH ST
ILLINOIS ST
3RD ST
101 FWY
280 FWY
23RD ST
24TH ST
25TH ST
ESTABLISHING CONNECTED PEDESTRIAN WALKWAYS & BIKE LANES Legend Bus Stop
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640’
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L2 - Pedestrian Walkway + Vegetation + Bulb Out Walkway + Vegetation + Bulb Out + Bike Lane
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FRAMEWORK + STRATEGIES
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Urban Contextual Framework + Strategies
ECOLOGICAL + HEALTH STRATEGIES
The Blue Greenway | North-Crane Cove to Carolina Green Space
• ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION: Tunnel Top to Warm Water Cove Providing opportunities for reconnection with the waterfront and Tiffany Shih + Madlena Hairabedyan
the local native plant species habitats and wildlife.
• HEALTH EQUITY:
Ensuring the local community has universal inclusive access to green open spaces, by remediating the local environment in efforts to reduce long term health defects caused by pollution and contaminants.
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Areas in need of green spaces that focus on remediation due to pollution before being open to the public.
ISLAIS CREEK WATE
Tree Canopy Proposed Green Space
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FRAMEWORK + STRATEGIES
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Urban Contextual Framework + Strategies
PROGRAM STRATEGIES
The Blue Greenway | North-CraneCove to Carolina Green Space • HUMAN CONNECTIVITY:
Promoting and engaging communal belonging within the area
Tunnel Top to Warm Water Cove and create a more safe and secure environment. By implementing initiatives and increased public green spaces for the community.
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Site Research & Mapping Analysis Conceptual Urban Site Design
The Blue Cove to to Carolina Green Space North-Crane Cove Carolina Green Space The BlueGreenway Greenway| North-Crane | CHANNEL THE VERDANT
Tunnel Top to Warm Water Cove Tiffany Shih + Madlena Hairabedyan
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event management company
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boat dealer
pharmacy
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mechanic
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Multi-purpose
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Community Art Space
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Fishing Dock
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Community Garden
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Ecological Restoration
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DEVELOPMENT PHASES Conceptual Urban
The Blue Greenway |
Site Design
IMPLEMENTING BUS STOPS + PAR
IMPLEMENTING SLOW GREEN STREETS
REPURPOSING EXISTING WAREHOUSES TRANSITIONAL HOUSING
CONVERTING STREET TO WOONERFS IMPLEMENTING BUS ROUTE UNDER FREEWAY TRAILS
COMMUNITY ART SPACES
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DEVELOPMENT PHASE ONE WATERFRONT REVITALIZATION Toxic areas will be blocked off for remediation.
ACCESSIBLE WALKWAYS Slowing down streets. Expanding existing green spaces
RKLETS
relaxation and socialization.
CLOSING OFF AREAS FOR REMEDIATION
EXPANDING EXISTING PARKS
DEVELOPMENT PHASE TWO
CONCEPTUAL URBAN SITE DESIGN
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and taking street space to implement parklets to promote
WATERFRONT REVITALIZATION Partially opening park space after remediation. Giving access to remediated park with immersive trails.
ACCESSIBLE WALKWAYS Chosen streets will be converted to woonerfs where pedestrians and cyclists are prioritized. Under freeway trails will bridge residents to accessible route to the waterfront through industrial area
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WATERFRONT REVITALIZATION - PHASE ONE Conceptual Urban Site Design
The Blue Greenway | Project Title
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Expansion & closure of Warm Water Cove for remediation
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Maintained & harvested annually to remove pollutants extracted
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WATERFRONT REVITALIZATION - PHASE TWO Conceptual Urban Site Design
The Blue Greenway |Educational Ecology Trails Ecology trails where individuals get the opportunity to be fully immersed in nature while learning more about wetlands and the remediation process occurring right at Warm Water Cove Park.
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WATERFRONT REVITALIZATION - PHASE THREE Conceptual Urban Site Design
The Blue Greenway Boardwalk | & Fishing Dock Elevated
walkway
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individuals
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indirectly interact with the wetlands designated for habitat restoration & protection. The shing dock provides individuals an opportunity to engage in recreational shing.
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ACCESSIBLE WALKWAYS - PHASE ONE Conceptual Urban Site Design
The Blue Greenway |
Green roofs on building units help reduce stormwater runoff
2% grade to direct excess water to inltration basin
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OVERFLOW PIPE
REDIRECTION OF WATER The Blue Greenway Corridor: Connecting Communities | San Francisco
CONCEPTUAL URBAN SITE DESIGN
Shared street with a focus on pedestrian and cyclist safety
RAISED CURB INFILTRATION BASIN Plants lter pollutants and sediments
Permeable pavers allow for water inltration
GROUNDWATER RECHARGE
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ACCESSIBLE WALKWAYS - PHASE TWO Conceptual Urban Site Design
The Blue Greenway Greenway | Trails
Vegetation and programs implemented under the freeway will bridge the residents to an accessible route to the waterfront through the industrial area. Pool tables are brought out from established businesses and batting cages are re-installed to encourage play. Benches are provided for rest and for leisure when enjoying food from local food truck vendors.
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ACCESSIBLE WALKWAYS - PHASE THREE Conceptual Urban Site Design
The Blue Greenway |
The Verdant Channel aims to connect disconnected streets and provide an accessible route to all green open spaces throughout our site. Keeping pedestrian and cyclist safety in mind and creating a direct route to and from the waterfront through vegetated green streets.
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tween envisions underutilized and opportunity spaces rero Hill & Dogpatch as a connective system which connects orhoods to themselves, and to the Blue Greenway. Spaces e neighborhoods in all scales can be envisioned by the o satisfy their needs in their respective neighborhoods and ected utilizing the streets between them.
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Healing Hills is the incentive for community development in the Potrero Hill neighborhood. Steep slopes, unwelcoming pedestrian pathways, and community segregation based on socioeconomic factors are all causes of community disconnection. By creating a sense of place and wholeness, a healthy community improves one’s perception of life, overall mood, and optimism for the future. The site stretches east to west from Potrero Avenue, at the intersection of the San Francisco General Hospital, connected by an existing footbridge over the 101 freeway, continuing along the steep slope of 22nd street to the Potrero Hill Recreation Center which is surrounded by public housing. With the design of the Healing Hills, the urban design strives to reunite the three dispersed communities through a single channel of a proposed healing street, leading locals to the Blue Greenway. The design initiates a Healing Bridge to replace the footbridge, inspired by the hospital garden, which is proven to offer many health benefits for humans. The Bridge creates a connection with the hospital, patients and healthcare workers and the Potrero Hill Neighborhood where people gather in a common area within a ten-minutewalk. 22nd street is a linear road on a slope of a 20% grade that runs through a residential zone, causing social and mobile inequity. Healing Hills envisions a pedestrianoriented space, including a new bridge with designated vehicular pathways. This shared street through the neighborhood and extended sidewalks provide leveled platforms for pedestrians as areas for rest, gathering, and viewpoints with additional street lights to enhance visibility. The proposed terraced recreation center allows accessibility for the public housing community as the various amenities are distributed equally throughout the three tiers. The first and third tier have spaces for aerobic exercise, such as basketball and tennis courts whereas the second tier is a community garden to promote food equity and nutrition education. Healing Hills endeavors to bring community enrichment through cultural engagements and increased connections with the Potrero Hill community.
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Infrastructure & Pedestrian Experience Over Grown Trees
Excessive Parking Pedestrian Blockages
Sidewalk
Parking
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MIDDLE Framework
Islais Creek
The Middle Macro Framework area of 325 acres is Islais Creek. The Ohlone would have harvested mussels, clams, and shrimp on its shores long before the Europeans arrived in 1769. The creek appeared on Mexican maps in 1834, named for Los Islais (is-lay-is), a hollyleaf cherry and favorite Indian food. On today’s map it is the gateway to (the former) Butchertown in Bayview and Hunters Point. Until the 1950s, the waterway was an open sewer. Things changed in the 1970s with construction of a water treatment plant nearby and the clearing out of Buchertown’s auto-wrecking yards. The Friends of Islais Creek, a visionary neighborhood group committed to creating a waterfront park and restoring the creek, started to create a small, green park by the Third Street draw bridge, and redesign continues today.
Macro Framework Boundary
San Francisco Bay
Source: Google Earth
Urban Design Sites 2 Islais Community Park :
Justin Sze + Justin Paredes-Sison
The Green Link :
Ryan Ortiz + Getsemani Rodriguez
Islais Creek Village :
Julian Montano + Corey Baum
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Islais Community Park strives to restore Islais Creek as an interactive wetland that weaves the community and the blue greenway together as one green network while retaining its industrial past. Ecological Restoration begins with reimagining better street connections filled with trees that mitigate pollutants caused by industrial vehicles. The adaptive reuse plan begins from research on the projected seal level rise that would submerge most of Islais channelized creek and surrounding areas. The design moves the industries that will be engaged to nearby open lots and related buildings. The frames of the buildings will be kept and repurposed. Islais community park aims to reconnect the residents to the west, south, and north through a system of green streets and public spaces .
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Mapping Analysis
Opportunities, Constraints, Beneficiaries
Oppor tunity
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Access Streets
Muni Facility
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I-280
Vacant Lot
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Waste Treatment Plant
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Beneficiar y
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nts and city buildings restrict areas for design along the West
Involving local Busin ess Mile Rad increase community es and Non-Profits in the design pro involvement ius cess to
SF Marin Food Bank
Creek Park, nlimited SF
Tulare Park
Tango School
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Mapping Analysis Accessibility
Site Shoreline Park Creek from City o t n i s e pti m E f of Run
Islais Creek
Islais Creek Park
Inaccessible Areas Muni Light Rail Creek Access Points Trees
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56%
of Waterf
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1 Mile
Cesar Chavez St
Open Space It was seen that Islais Creek now has low amounts of existing trees and low amounts of accessible waterfront.
of Waterfront
It’s important to note that Islais Creek now has about 1 mile of waterfront, but half of that is inaccessible.
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Trash Homeless Industrial Commercial Hostile Streets
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Trash
Concentrated Areas It was observed that Islais Creek today has multiple sources of contaimants including: existing industry, homeless, and the roadways. It was also observed that the underpass under the 280 Hwy holds the highest concentration of trash as it is not well lit and not easily accessible.
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Construction Vehicles
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Soil
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PCBs
Leads to Cancer and can cause developmental damage in children at small doses
Lead
Respiratory Damage
Cancer Mapping
Leads to respiratory failure, premature death, Heart Disease, Nausea, and Confusion
Health Effects
Nitrogen oxide Particulate Matter Sulfur dioxide
Brain Damage
Leads to anemia, weakness, kidney damage, and brain damage
Mercury
Kidney Failure
Leads to damaged nervous system and is consumed by fish which is then consumed by us.
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Mapping Analysis Street Study
Hostile Streets
735
Vehicular Pedestrian Accidents Per Year
25%
Of all Particulate Matter generated from Trucks
~2
3rd St 2 Way Muni T-Line 22’
Bicyclists/Hr
Heavy Vehicles Construction and Shipping trucks crowd 3rd St and Illinois St, creating undesirable pedestrian space
Need for:
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Shared Path 9’
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2 Way Street 20’
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Framework Strategy Industrial Zoning
High Impact Industry Surrounding Effect
High Impact includes industries
involved in: Metal Working, Heavy Chemicals, Recycling Centers, Dumps, Gas Stations, Waste Treatment, Clothes Factories, Treatment Plants and Construction Zones
Medium Impact Industry Surrounding Effect
Medium Impact includes
industries involved in: natural resources, heavy machinery, heavy vehicles, towing + car yards, muni + heavy traffic, auto repair, and manufacturers of small items
Low Impact Industry Surrounding Effect
Low Impact includes industries involved in: natural resources, abandoned areas, light machinery, small vehicles, storage, supply stores, paper printers, USPS, and contractors
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West Residential
Site
High Impact Industry is mainly
placed near the waterfront, further enhancing environmental damage associated with Islais Creek
Residential connection
to the waterfront from the West is disconnected by a region of industry surrounding Islais Creek
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Sea Level Rise and Adaptive Re-Use Industry In Danger
High Impact Industry
Industry in Red is in danger of 5ft and 2ft sea level rise. In response, these industries will be moved to the Open Lots in green.
Medium Impact Industry
West Residential
Low Impact Industry
Adaptive Reuse strategy seeks to repurpose relocated industry’s
building frames to benefit either the community or the local ecology.
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Red Tier Streets Red Streets: Inaccessible streets whether it is broken or disconnect sidewalks on either or both sides that provide a dangerous pedestrian experience. These require immediate attention
East
Orange Tier Streets Orange Streets: Semi-accessible or fully accessible, however, provide a moderate experience with the lack of street tress or narrow sidewalk experience along large vehicles.
Residential
Green Tier Streets Green Streets: these are desirable streets that have patches of streets trees, with ample room to walk, and may have bulb-outs. They also consists of smaller vehicles with some streets having buffers.
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Bike ways
Buffer Vehicles
Site
The streets lack safety and comfortability through visual screening and street trees.
The residents are removed from entering Islais Creek because of large industrial vehicles and disconnected streets. Residential connection to the waterfront from the East is disconnected by a numerous streets and highways surrounding Islais Creek
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Framework + strategie s
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0’
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Bike
Bicycle Path
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Eventspace
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Ecological Restoration CONCEPTUAL URBAN SITE DESIGN
Illinois St
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Islais Creek Wetlands strives to restore Islais Creek as an interactive wetland that weaves the community and the blue greenway together as one green network, while remembering its industrial past.
Industrial Adaptation Community Connection
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Legend
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Access points into Site
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Basketball Courts
2
Redirected lanes for Vehicular Traffic
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Picnic Areas
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Green Bridge
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Fishing Pier
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Wetland Exploration
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Kayak Launch
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Skate Park
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Cesar Chavez St
I-28
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3rd St
Islais Creek
Transitional Housing Community Center
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Remaining Buildings
Community Driven
After the adaptive reuse proposal, some buildings would remain industrially active and other buildings would be converted into community centers or transitional housing for the homeless.
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Building Framework
Adaptation
To increase ecological value, the majority of the existing buildings would be reduced to their frames. This allows for the opportunity to have ecology infiltrate into the previously industrial buildings.
CONCEPTUAL URBAN SITE DESIGN
The planting allows for absorption of harmful chemicals around Islais Creek and provides remediation.
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I-28
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Green Buffer
Diagram
The green buffer serves as an anti-flood barrier to combat impending sea level rise. It is set at 6’ tall and 20’ wide and also provides plant screening to better encase the new Wetlands of Islais Creek.
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CONCEPTUAL URBAN SITE DESIGN
These areas will also include eel grass and oyster beds to help clean and filter out the water.
Waterfront Adjustment The Wetlands of Islais Creek provide soft edges that help soak up water as sea level rises. It also honors the past ecological conditions of Islais Creek.
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Eel Grass + Oyster Reefs Eel grass and oyster reefs were purposely placed to help filter out and clean the contaminants of Islais Creek from the waterway.
CONCEPTUAL URBAN SITE DESIGN
The eel grass and oyster reefs are placed at important circulation points that increase visitor awareness of the underwater ecology.
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Views into Creek
Meadow
Creating Views
CONCEPTUAL URBAN SITE DESIGN
The Meadow areas of the design are meant to create pockets of open air that help frame views of Islais Creek across its waterfronts.
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Forest
Pockets
Forested areas on the site are meant to provide increased buffer around the perimeter while also creating pockets of trees that help control viewpoints and shade. Pockets reflect wetland landforms
CONCEPTUAL URBAN SITE DESIGN
The form of the forest pockets reflect the forms of the neighboring wetland areas..
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Cesar Chavez St
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Islais Creek
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Access Points + Green Web Each access point into the site connects to the main path of circulation. Bus Stop
Light Rail Stop
CONCEPTUAL URBAN SITE DESIGN
The access points also contain bus and muni light rail stops set up by the Green Web network to connect members of the community to Islais Community Park.
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Cesar Chavez St
Cesar Chavez St Access
I-28
0H
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3rd St Access
Bridge 3rd St
Islais Creek
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Quint St Access
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Main Circulation
Path Width
Provides 3 key points of access into the site while creating a loop that allows visitors to roam along Islais Creek’s new Wetland. 25’
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Elevated W alk wa y
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Fishing Pier
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Graffiti Walls
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Secondary Circulation
Path Width
Secondary Circulation provides visitors with Wetland exploration while providing visitors with a meanderring pathway that promotes wandering
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Cesar Chavez St
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Boardwalk
Path Width
The Boardwalk provides visitors with Waterfront access and opportunity for fishing and kayaking along Islais Creek. Approximately 1.2 Miles of Waterfront access is introduced into Islais Creek.
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Eventspace Underpass Graffiti Graffiti Terraces
Eel Grass
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Muni Line Green Bridge Building Frame
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Basketball Courts
Skatepark Kayak Boat Launch
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Islais Creek
Active Recreation Active recreation on the site lies underneath the I-280 Hwy as it is the loudest section and creates a buffer for the rest of the site.
CONCEPTUAL URBAN SITE DESIGN
We wanted to activate Islais Creek with activities appealing to the Bayview Community
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Active Recreation
I-280 Hwy
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Basketball Courts
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Highway and Active Recreation
I-280 HWY
Basketball Courts
Green Buffer Trees
Skate Park
Skate bowl acts as a Catch Basin as water rises
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Grafffiti Wall
Wetland
Water is then sent to the nearby Water Treatment Plant to be Recirculated back into the city
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Main Circulation
Site Design
Community Zoning
I-28
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Graffiti Terraces
3rd St
Islais Creek Fishing Pier
Transitional Housing
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Picnic M Community Centers Central Plaza
Community
CONCEPTUAL URBAN SITE DESIGN
The Community portion of the site focuses on giving spaces back to the community through community centers, fishing piers, graffiti terraces, picnic meadows, and a central plaza open to the public.
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CONCEPTUAL URBAN SITE DESIGN
Graffiti Building Frame
Main Circulation
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Secondary Eventspace
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The design aims to co-locate ecological and industrial spaces to optimize the benefits to the community and local wildlife. The design enforces ecological restoration, involvement of local residents and industries, mitigation of UHI, and maximizes public open space to improve quality of life. The site presents a number of difficulties, including physical impediments, toxic hazards, and poor air and water quality. There is a lack of accessibility to the site, excessive traffic emissions and an overall disconnection from the community. We tackle these challenges with certain design strategies: providing public transit, restoring the natural waterfront edge, connecting green spaces with an urban jungle, safety green buffers between vehicles and pedestrians, BMP techniques, and staging programming. The green space additions serve as a link for the Blue Greenway parks and presents opportunities for community activities, encouraging people to connect to nature, and experience the restored ecology.
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PERALTA HEIGHTS
ISLAIS CREEK CHANNEL PRODUCE MARKET
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Pier 80 is located in Bayview Hunters Point in San Francisco, California. This site is part of the Blue Greenway which is a multi-agency effort to create an inter-connected system of green spaces and parks on San Francisco’s Southeast waterfront. Pier 80 is design focused on a clear connection to the waterfront, which included many challenges - from pedestrian safety to climate change. One of the biggest constraints on this site was a serious concern of sea level rise and liquefaction. In the design we also wanted to focus on the connectivity, and on inviting pedestrains, bicyclists, and visitors into the site, by more accessible streets. The space co-exists with healing the ecology of our site. The design connects to ecology, but also builds an environment of sharing space with visitors and industry. Ultimately the design focuses on a more environmentally healthy space for all.
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Islais Creek Channel
3rd Street
Green Space/ Parks
Illinois Street
PIER 94
CHANNEL NETWORK : SALT MARSH
The site is embedded around by San Francisco's Bay and Islais Creek Channel. The Channel network is no longer being utilized but is surrounded by ship traffic that contributes to cross pollution.
AY ENTRANCE
Buildings
OPEN SPACE NETWORK :
The site itself is surrounded by many Industrial buildings and very few open/green space. The area is congested with such heavy pollution due to SAN FRANCISCO BAYis its heavily dense use of structures that the community in dire need of openness and connectivity to nature.
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The site has very dense traffic of commercial and shipment trucks passing by everyday. There is a high total of other vehicular traffic that crosses the ABANDONED two main bridges and that is motor cars and San ENTRANCE BOOTH Francisco's Municipal transportation system. This makes it very unsafe for pedestrians and towards the cyclists which limits their accessibility Average coastline. CA Weekday
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Potrero Hills
Parkside Bayview-Hunters Point Lake Shore
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Warehouses
LANDUSE, DENSITY :
SAN FRANCISCO BAY
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a very low percentage of open spaces and parks. y is in need of increasing its green spaces for the There are a few varieties of wildlife and habitats.
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ACCESSIBILITY
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PRINCIPLES Parks/Green Space
Green Corridors Proposed Green Edges
Bike Lane Disconnections
Hospital
Light Rail Stop Light Rail
Open green spaces that the community can come and connect with their neighbors.
Liquefaction Risk Zones
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Green Streets
Industrial Zone
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Macro Site
Incorporating green infrastructure and reconnecting habitats.
Integrating safe access for travel.
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People friendly environment that promotes cycling and walkability
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Bike Lane Light Rail Stop Light Rail
Highway/ Interstate
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Restaurants A
Kayak Center Islias Steps A
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SOUTH Framework
India Basin
The Southern Macro Framework area is located at India Basin – a community with an impressive maritime history and a diverse population. For almost 150 years the India Basin waterfront has been defined by boat builders, and the next 150 years it will be defined by a new, remediated public park that is taking shape along the shoreline. The new envisioned public spaces encourage community members to get involved with artists, who posess a strong connection to Bayview-Hunters Point, to lead the community-centered, collaborative design process with local youth. This Macro Framework area is 650 acres in size and focuses on connecting and restoring a series of urban public parks and wetlands along the waterfront and to adjacent neighborhoods.
Macro Framework Boundary
San Francisco Bay
Source: Google Earth
Urban Design Sites 3 Celebrating Bayview :
Grant Geipel + Hiromitsu Suetake
Three Point Meadow :
Alejandra Hernandez + Valerie Alegre
Rooted Foundations :
Daniel Jacobs + Mimi Ngai
Bayview Farms :
Eric Cheluca + Jonathan Aguirre
Northridge Rd. Open Space
Innes Ave. + Hawes Triangle Malcolm X Academy Hill
La Salle Ave. to Cashmere St.
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The Bayview-Hunters Point community is rich in its history and its arts culture. Through many changes from the inception of its settlement to present day, the community has faced a variety of challenges and was once identified as the ‘Forgotten District’ of San Francisco. However, the community and its residents have met these challenges with much resilience over the course of its history. Namely, the Big Five, a triumphant group of mothers, and Arelious Walker, a community church leader, who championed a movement for the rights and well-being of their neighborhood. Since then, Bayview has evolved into San Francisco’s African American Arts + Cultural District as the community’s identity has been manifested by its creativity. Celebrating Bayview aims to celebrate this identity by providing a healthy and secure environment that acts as a platform for the community to engage, connect and reveal their creative spirit.
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The Bayview-Hunters Point community is rich in its history and resilience. Through much change and turmoil, the residents boast its community spirit is not seen in any wealthier or better served neighborhoods as the community has continually fought for what it has today.
1960s
Civil unrest in Bayview Hunters Point + the “Big Five” fight for their community
1860 s 1910 Albion Castle + Shipwright Cottage Chinese shrimping village + production of scow schooners
1941 Naval acquisition
of Hunters Point Shipyard
fishing communities along the bay
Effects of redlining City disinvestment into ‘detrimental’ or ‘hazardous’ red areas - lack of infrastructure Lack of job opportunities and food access Industrial zoning adjacent to red areas increasing community health risks Lack of educational funding due to lower rates of neighborhood property taxes Source: Kelley & VerPlanck, Bayview-Hunters Point Area B Survery, SFRA, 2010. http://www.sanfranciscohistory.com/BVHP_Context.pdf
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High Injury Network Violent Crime Density
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Bayview Hunters Point is a community built upon a foundation that has thrived through its resilience. Rooted Foundations aims to incorporate an urban forest within the community and to re-imagine existing spaces in ways that align with community needs. Planted hillsides are converted into terraced gardens with Northern California cultivars to help mitigate issues surrounding food insecurity. It will provide residents with the opportunity to participate in programs such as planting, maintaining, harvesting, and distributing food throughout the community. The once barren streets will be planted heavily with a forest ecosystem in order to create a comfortable and immersive experience , as they walk from the various housing units toward the coastline. Existing building foundations will be adapted to allow for leisure, gathering, and create moments of viewing along the elevated forested walk that brings you down from the Bayview Hunters Point community to the India Basin.
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Case Study Research Next Steps Acknowledgements
The Senior Capstone Landscape Architecture Studio focuses on a singular, topic‐ - driven project, that connects theoretical and practical landscape architecture methods, to address the complex social, urban, environmental, economic, aesthetic and political/regulatory fabric encountered in cities. Students crafted a visual narrative - a researched story told visually with graphics, in great detail. This is a knowledge-driven story told primarily through the use of visual media. The story was told using still photography, mixed-media collage, 3D illustration, infographics and enhanced with graphic data mappling/site plan communication.
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Case Study Research Case study research is a well-documented and systematic examination of the process, decision making, and outcomes of a project that is undertaken for the purpose of informing future practice, design, policy, theory, and/or education. Case study research is valuable in a number of ways. It can be a source of practical information on potential solutions to difficult problems, and also an effective way to teach by example, learn problem solving skills, and to develop useful evaluation strategies and precedents. * Site Design & Research, San Francisco, 2022
* Adapted from: Francis, Mark (2019). A Case Study Method for Landscape Architecture – 20th Anniversary Edition, 2019 - LAF
Design, case studies can manifest in many methods and formats. An infographic (or information graphic) is a visual representation of information or data. An info-graphic manifests as a collection of imagery, charts, and text that gives an easy-to-understand overview of a big idea. Visuals in an infograpic are ideal for making complex information easy to comprehend. They can be helpful to explain and provide a quick overview of an idea, illustrating a complex process or raise awareness about an issue or cause. When a really quick rundown of an idea(s) with data is difficult to explain in words alone, an infographic is a useful method to envision a universally understood narrative. Infographic-Source (above): CPPLA
Each student researched a case study precedent and utilized data, sketches, diagrams and/or annotated photographs to craft a visual graphic narrative. The narrative as an infographic allows students to create a graphical representation of site, events, notable people and/or processes through telling a grounded story of the place with data. Each infographic traced the history and evolution of the space and its architectural, infrastructural, land use, ecological and its social/cultural and economic evolution/relationship to its community and urban context.
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GRASSROOTS CAMPAIGN : LED BY PATRICIA WALKUP FOR FREEWAY REMOVAL
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WWII
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Pier 39 opens
1958
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Ferry Building
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redevelopment plan approved
1991
Embarcadero Fwy
2003
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demolished
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Next Steps The Blue Greenway is a long range, complex and comprehensive initiative, addressing much needed open public space, for a series of underserved and economically disadvantaged communities, that lack healthy green space. The Southeast coast of San Francisco was historically the center of the city’s heavy industry, with environmental contamination and cleanup necessary to create a healthier ecology, within the Blue Greenway Corridor. The students understood these objectives in theory prior to their visit to San Francisco, but there was a marked difference in how the students approached the initiative before and after visiting the sites and meeting with a series of local professionals, community leaders and activists. The students witnessed efforts of environmental justice in restoring native habitats on-site by talking with residents, professionals, and volunteers in local communities, to achieve these goals. The students visited and observed of site remediation at 900 Innes in India basin, and concurrently, heard leaders in the community explain that they carry toxic metals in their body from years of living with/in polluted environmental conditions. Despite these struggles, these neighborhoods also foster a creative arts culture – from amazing food in local cafes to inspired mural and industrial art - which is unique, celebrated, and proudly embraced. All these varied experiences set the students on an empathy trajectory, leading towards an informed sense of purpose, to craft design ideas that could contribute to the healing of this community, even if in a limited way. These experiences lit a fire in the students that became increasingly inherent. The students researched impending consequences of climate change, brownfield lands contamination and social and environmental justice issues in these communities – and these issues were also followed up with their meaningful and value-added, implementable ideas. The residents of Southeast San Francisco deserve a safe, healthy, green, and sustainable future, and the students in this studio, who all graduated in May 2022, will emerge as more informed, enthusiastic, responsible, inclusive, strategic, and empathetic professionals and citizens because of this studio experience. This is truth. Healing is a complex and multi-layered process that takes time and effort by individuals within a community who comprehensively fight for one another’s future, and a more equitable public good. The next steps of this initiative begin here.
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Acknowlegements Studio | Clients San Francisco Parks Alliance https://sanfranciscoparksalliance.org/ Philip Winn - Director, Parks & Place Maya Rodgers - Senior Project Manager, Parks & Place Thomas Namara - Southeast Area Manager Warwin. C. Davis - Southeast Area Manager
Studio | Academics Cal Poly Pomona, College of Environmental Design Department of Landscape Architecture https://www.cpp.edu/env/landscape-architecture/index.shtml Ray Senes - Studio Instructor + Coordinator Andrew Wilcox - Department Chair + Professor Lauren Bricker, Ph.D - Dean, College of Environmental Design Kris Penrose - Department of Landscape Architecture Administrative Coordinator
Studio | Collaborators, San Francisco David Froehlich: Project Manager - San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department Patrick Rump: Executive Director, Director of Stewardship Programs - Literacy for Environmental Justice Angelique Tompkins: Environmental Justice Advocate – Bayview Hunters Point Arieann Harrison: Founder - Marie Harrison Foundation Julie Christensen: Executive Director – Green Benefits District (GBD) Chris Guillard: Principal - CMG Landscape Architecture Lisa Beyer: Manager for Urban Water Infrastructure - World Resources Institute (WRI) Marcel Wilson: Founder + Design Director - Bionic Sarah Moos Thompson: Associate Principal/Project Leader - Bionic Charles Gadeken: Industrial Designer Artist/Founder - The Box Shop Cassie McDonald: Project Designer/Project Manager - Envelope A+D Brenda Cartagena: Manager of Volunteer Services – Heron’s Head Eco-Center Facility & Programs Mishwa Lee: Member - San Francisco, Northridge Cooperative Garden Franco Martinez: Event Curator - Bayview Opera House 390
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