Destination Bazaar by Sharan Saboji

Outer Mission

DESTINATION BAZAAR SHARAN SABOJI APOCALYPSE NOW: Project for the Post-Retail City Roach / Cho ARCH 5070 / MARCH 6070-8-UR Advanced Urban Studio, Spring 2020

APOCALYPSE NOW! Project for a Post-Retail City

Presently, Mission Street is a 2.2 mile long monotonous Neighbourhood Commercial District with small scale retail storefronts within rigid planning blocks forming a discreet retail fabric which is catered by infrequent transit infrastructure that adds to the retail apocalypse already underway here. Under the premise that a policy like the SB50 housing bill has been passed and the entire corridor has been up-zoned to accommodate more housing, I propose to re-look at Mission Street as a part of a triangular system with City College, Balboa Park BART station and the 280 interstate highway and anticipate the increased need for connectivity to regional transit by building two transit center nodes at the intersections of Ocean Avenue and Geneva Avenue with Mission Street. To address the retail apocalypse underway on the monotonous Mission Street corridor, the transit nodes are a part of a strategy of relocating existing retail, de-densifying it along the corridor and intensifying it in each node in a bazaar system using the concepts from the Grand Bazaar, Istanbul as a precedent with flexible retail spaces, a renewed sidewalk nature, extending into an underground market as well as new rooftop park spaces, all of which would be managed by Business Improvement Districts, transforming these into new destinations for retail to flourish within the nuances of this bazaar environment. COVID Postscript The BID managing the allocation of businesses to the flexible units of the bazaar would regulate their temporal operation as business will gradually roll into activity. Wider sidewalks would allow people to continue maintaining social distancing as business would be phased back into operation. The number of transit services would also be regulated to allow for fewer commuters to board the buses and cabs as per need basis.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Grand Bazaar

The original mall

Ownership

System of guilds

11-12

Form/Surface

13-14

Outer Mission

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Access

17-18

Infrastructure

19-20

Governance

21-22

Transit Systems

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Transitway

25-26

Synthetic Diagram

27-28

Master Plan

Arrays of vaulted corridors

Confluence of neighbourhoods

Narrow sidewalks

Monotonous commercial corridor

Destination for neighbourhood gathering

runnings costs

Prioritized public transit lanes

Outer Mission as a triangular system

Bazaar with the surface

GRAND BAZAAR The original mall

The Grand Bazaar is considered by some to be the oldest and largest covered mall that represents a very unique market model that worked on a supportive relationship between the Aya Sofya Mosque and the guilds of traders, the profits of which went in the betterment of the city through social and cultural activities. The Grand Bazaar can be comprehended as a concentric ring system of market spaces, from the very formal guild systems who stood for a coopetitive, authentic trade and craft to the informal markets that, through mass industrialization have penetrated the once exclusive guild markets. The individual stores with their compact scale allowed for an affordable means to expand or contract the scale of business depending on the success of the business. The layouts also allowed a degree of flexibility to increment in space, subsequently increasing the territorial presence of their guilds in the market.

DESTINATION BAZAAR - Grand Bazaar From the series ‘Flatland’ by Aydın Büyüktaş

DESTINATION BAZAAR - Ownership

Formerly a system of guilds which specialised in trading specific commodities would occupy a defined area of shops. Today the guilds are replaced by a system of associations.

DESTINATION BAZAAR - Ownership

Only through a line of inheritance could anyone trade at the bazaar or through a buy-in from any member about to retire.

rom their membership, and these leaders would in turn guarantee members a sound living. Guilds purchased and equitably distributed raw materials to thei

Sharon Wohl.

Figure 1: Greater Context, Istanbul.

DESTINATION BAZAAR - Governance

Initially, the bazaarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s site was chosen in accordance with settlement patterns of the Byzantine city in an area already established as an important center for trade

DESTINATION BAZAAR - Governance

The bazaar was operated under the auspices the vakif system which created a broader civic economic ecology that supported educational, religious and commercial components of city life.

DESTINATION BAZAAR - Form/Surface

Vast arrays of vaulted corridors are pierced by arched skylights, rendering a play of light and shadow.

DESTINATION BAZAAR - Form/Surface

The bazaar construction formerly funded by the Aya Sofya vakif, went through a massive renovation over a span of four years.

OUTER MISSION Confluence of neighbourhoods

Being a monotonous commercial spine of about 2.2 miles of Mission Street in the Outer Mission neighbourhood poses as a challenge to retain a consistent focus on the retail activity. With a dominant presence of immigrant populations, there is a strong presence of family owned establishments with a few retail spaces owned by large corporations. The size of planning blocks in the neighbourhoods along the Mission Street corridor influence the type of retail space that can emerge here. The lack of open spaces in this residential urban sprawl surrounding the retail corridor fails to provide nodes for public activity. Few transit corridors intersect with mission street that creates a sense of nodal spaces that has potential to be tapped.

DESTINATION BAZAAR - Outer Mission Street

An estimated 25,000 people turned up for Sunday Street supporting freedom and liberation.

Excelsior Walk Through / Summ Problem: Bus Shelters

Note: Bus shelters do not provide sufficient room for ped Sidewalks with no additional shelter provide free and clea

photo by Summer Koide

PUBLISHED 11/26/2018

AROUND A BUS SHELTER, A WIDER SIDEWALK WOULD BENEFIT BOTH BUS PASSENGERS AND PASSERS-BY

DESTINATION BAZAAR - Access

Narrow

COMFORT by providing more space for circulation Primarily the four lane Mission Street has narrow sidewalks and scope for neither urban furniture nor landscape and pedestrian amenities, like street cafes, Good public spaces invite people to stay

DESTINATION BAZAAR - Infrastructure

Transportation infrastructure of varying frequencies that provide service to these neighbourhoods

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Brotherhood Way Open Space

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Voice of Pentecost Academy

CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO

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Ortega School (Elementary)

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Daly City BART Station

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Playground

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Balboa Sr. High School

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Dorothy Erskine Park

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San Francisco Christian School

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Alice Chalmers Playground

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Geneva Carbarn

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Balboa Park

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Lick Wilmerding Balboa Park High School BART Station

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San Francisco Adventist School

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Parks & Open Space

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Study Area

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The monotonous commercial corridor as encoded by law.

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Sheridan School (Elementary)

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Brotherhood Way Open Space

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St. Emydius School

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Voice of Pentecost Academy

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CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO

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Daly City BART Station

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Playground

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Ocean View Playground

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Excelsior Playground

Corpus Christi School

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Glen Park School (Elementary)

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St. Johns School

MONTE REY BLVD

Dorothy Erskine Park

Balboa Sr. High School

James Denman Jr. High School

San Francisco Christian School

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Alice Chalmers Playground

MIS

Geneva Carbarn

DETROIT ST

Balboa Park

Balboa Park BART Station

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JUDSON AVE

STAPLES AVE

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Commodore Sloat School (Elementary)

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DESTINATION BAZAAR - Infrastructure

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Figure 4.6 PUBLISHED 11/26/2018 2018

EXCELSIOR OUTER MISSION ZONING AND HEIGHT DISTRICTS

Excelsior District Crocker - Amazon District Outer Mission District

DESTINATION BAZAAR - Governance

Not only the intersection of transit corridors, this is also a destination for neighbourhood gathering.

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San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living

MISSION STREET

Safeway

OWNERSHIP & ACCESS

Longfellow Elementary School

OCEAN AVENUE

DESTINATION BAZAAR - Layers

GENEVA AVENUE

The juxtaposition of the grid iron layouts with transit corridors create a variety of spaces within the urban sprawl

As Muni Gets Slower ... System Speed 10

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... Costs Go Higher Cost Effectiveness

Cost per Passenger Trip (2005 dollars)

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Muni Bus classification based on frequency of stops offered 21

DESTINATION BAZAAR - Transit Systems The choice of runnings costs vs efficient systems

The Real Costs of Congestion

Source: SPUR, "Muni's Downward Spiral," 2005

July 26, 2007

DESTINATION BAZAAR - Congestion

The need to shift to complete transit only lanes is imminent with rising operation costs due to congestion

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Pedestrian Bicycle

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DESTINATION BAZAAR - Transitway

Prioritized public11m transit lanes can increase speeds up to 25 mph

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Double-storey ceiling heights create sufficient vertical space for a variety of interior uses. Spacious column bays make it eas ier to subdivide the same space for new uses.

Deconstructable partitions (50 per cent of walls) are designed for faster renovations, reducing vacancy times.

Utilities wired through flexible base boards â&#x20AC;&#x201D; instead of being embed ded into walls â&#x20AC;&#x201D; enable flexible walls to be moved or removed with far less demolition work. Retractable facades open to the outdoors for all-season program ming.

Flexibility and modularity of spaces and services

Movable kiosks can be easily moved outside for a livelier market experience.

Exposed timber walls support the greater integration of nature into the urban environment.

with lighting Modular ceiling grids, and AV plug-ins, further support accelerated renovation.

Building Raincoats protect sidewalks adjacent to stoa spaces in from rain or snow.

DESTINATION BAZAAR - Stoa

BART

CORRIDOR

HOUSING

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NODE

SURFACE

NODE CONTEXT

DESTINATION BAZAAR - Synthetic Diagram Outer Mission as a triangular system

[ ] HOUSING

SURFACE

DESTINATION BAZAAR - Multilevel Bazaar Intersection of flows in space

DESTINATION BAZAAR! Project for a Post-Retail City

Mission Street will be reimagined as a triangular system, the extents of which will be defined by the intersection of Ocean Avenue to the north and Geneva Avenue to the south. The Ocean Avenue Node has fragmented city blocks that will be unified into a ground floor bazaar with flexible retail space arrangements that will provide greater resilience for fluctuating retail markets and a central plaza space, and an elevated park space. Wider sidewalks and streets only for buses, TNCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and delivery bots will create a more vibrant ground floor environment with urban furniture under planted trees. Existing personal cars will be directed to an underground parking lot which will gradually transform into an underground market and artist gallery space as automated cars will become the popular mode of transportation. The Geneva Avenue Node has an internal open space in the form of a traditional parking lot that can become a park/market space by consolidating the parking into a new structure. Other open spaces can be unified with some rigid retail spaces and new ground floor retail that has more value as a bazaar system. A Business Improvement District will regulate the de-densification of the existing monotonous Mission Street, intensifying these nodes into vibrant and diverse retail destinations.

OCEAN AVENUE NODE

GENEVA AVENUE NODE

DESTINATION BAZAAR - Master Plan Bazaar with the surface