1. Regional Scale: San Francisco Bay Area

Description to come.

2. Neighborhood Scale: San Francisco Transbay Terminal Area

The area of the Transbay Terminal in downtown San Francisco was receiving much attention in the fall of 2007. Three design proposals were submitted to envision both the future design and financing of the site. The Pelli Clark Pelli Architects/Hines proposal was selected while the 2008 class was working on their study project addressing the adjacent areas.

The sites that were studied by studio were in direct relation to a plan was prepared a few years earlier by the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency. This plan looked at the surrounding blocks to the south of the terminal station, especially those that had become available after the demolition of the Embarcadero Freeway in addition to some in-fill sites located along Folsom Street. The studio had to keep in mind that the San Francisco City Planning Department also produced a plan for Rincon Hill. So far, this plan has produced a single 600 foot high structure near the anchorage of the San Francisco Bay Bridge. More high buildings are expected to follow.

In studio, the students critically examined the various plans and develop implementations strategies for an area that is roughly limited by the waterfront, Market Street, Second and Bryant Streets. The students considered various factors when designing for this location; including high density, pedestrian scale, environmental impacts, skyline, streetscapes, and logical floorplans.

Noah Friedman and John Sugrue
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Berta Lázaro
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Eric Liu
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Sonia Saraf
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Carrie Wallace
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3. Site Scale: San Francisco Streetscapes

In the final project of the fall semester studio, the students were asked to select a San Francisco street and design it according to one of these five design principles:

• Connector Streets
• Neighborhood Center Streets
• Ecological Streets
• Promenade Streets
• Boulevard Streets
  
  

The streets were designed in both plan and section and accounted for vehicular, bicycle and pedestrian movement, in addition to putting into play one of the five design principles.

Berta Lázaro
Columbus Avenue Collector Diagonal
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Sonia Saraf
Redesigning Alemany Boulevard
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John Sugrue
Ecological Corridors
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Carrie Wallace
Golden Gate Park Promenade
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