We are very excited to begin a new project for the Sunset Hill neighborhood to transform an abandoned City Light substation parcel into a pocket park. Based on the input from the community thus far, the program is very intriguing: a community space with an artist-in-residence caretaker, powered by a serious photovoltaic array.
There may be more or different elements as the project evolves in the community design process, and as we navigate through various City agencies and funding sources, but fundamentally this has all the values we expound as a firm: sustainable building, energized public space, housing options/density, and an interactive process that invests people in the civic life of their neighborhood.
In 2008, I designed a structure with a similar program for a Dwell Magazine conceptual competition:
Crissy Field House