2100 TELEGRAPH - USF Studio 5B

2100 TELEGRAPH

UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO, ARCHITECTURE STUDIO 5B 2016.

INSTITUTIONAL BUILDING + URBAN PLANNING Instructor: June A. Grant

2100 TELEGRAGH avenue Bordered by 21st and 22nd Streets and Broadway Avenue, 2100 Telegraph Avenue lies at a unique nexus in the Downtown area of Oakland. Rising corporate structures act as both barrier and beacon. As barrier, the existing elderly and low income residents are separated from the largest symbol of Oakland - Lake Merritt.

Separated and segregated, a series of social services have assembled exactly one block away from the site, yet there is a sense San Pablo and the senior community are outcasts - not encouraged, not welcomed to the more town Downtown and Lake districts.

Can we address separation?

WHO IS THE COMMUNITY?

ALLOWABLE BUILDING HEIGHT: UNLIMITED

Clairissa Brown Zhuohan Zhuo

PLANNED, APPROVED OR UNDER-CONSTRUCTION

INCOME, AGE AND ACCESS TO FOOD

UNDER 18

Nicholas Barella Kay Cassidy

OVER 65

COMMUNITY - a society is more than economics

CAN ACTIVE SPACE BE PROVIDED TO THE RESIDENT SENIOR POPULATION

WHO BENEFITS? WHO LOSES?

Zhuohan Zhuo

Oakland is being transformed; where spatial scales of neighborhoods are changing - five story structures abut single-family homes and twostory commercial districts. There is almost a sense of deliberate purification motivated by economic necessity.

Junior undergraduate architecture students were challenged to validate and design a new UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO ART & ARCHITECTURE SATELLITE OUTREACH CENTER.

ASSIGNMENT

Architects, Urban Planner and Designers are often tasked to change what exists. However, there is often no encouragement to leave things alone and as a result, we erase all opportunities to learn.

Kay Cassidy

WASHINGTON DC - Radial streets create unimpeded access, scaled neighborhoods and ability to create distinct identities

Kay Cassidy

FLORENCE ITALY - buildings are tightly woven and integrated into the urban fabric but no clear identity

Melanie Lauer

UNIV OF NEVADA NV - dispersed buildings and distance results in a primacy of cars over people, and no clear urban identity.

Clairissa Brown

WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM OTHER CITIES?

PROPOSED USF A&A CAMPUS SITE

3D Site Model - Instructor: June A. Grant.

Human Interface It is the human experience that makes a building a journey in itself. Ramps connect buildings, provide movement and green open-spaces for gathering.

Ramps allow mobile access for all while creating multiple views of the city. Ramps are also speedy means for students rushing to classes, while bridges connect buildings and rooftops.

The strategy focuses on human interaction - daily students exchange, ideas, affections, emotions. Multiple spaces for gathering, both vertical and horizontal, create order for a structure to accommodate the human experience.

Melanie Lauer right concept studies

“The Elderly also have needs” Nicholas Barella below Shadow Study Site Concept Program

Urban Plaza Accessible By All Alexander Toribio

these pages Analysis Circulation Plan Exploded Axonometric Diagram Interior

The ground level is primarily Commercial space where a gym, cafe, restaurant and retail spaces are located. This will create a lively area around the school that will build on the energy from Uber technology’s revamping of the Sears building, which will include a market. Also on the ground level, there will be a privately accessed entry to the school. There will be a foyer, font desk, and elevators leading to the levels of the school.

Street Economics The main focus of this project is to cater to the student, provide a dynamic area for learning and socializing, and connecting the building with new Developments, but specifically the new Uber headquarters and other Shops and restaurants in the area.

The Art & Architecture school primary activities are located on Levels One and Two. The first level is dedicated to group-related creating designs, a digital design lab, indoor and outdoor Construction areas, as well as, classrooms.

The second level is designated for personal design spaces for each student, a lounge, and a self serve coffee bar.

Existing Grocery Stores

Clairissa Brown below Program

On Level Three are galleries, screening areas, an auditorium and lecture halls. This floor is private, except during the summer when the space will be displaying artwork from the community and students.

Student Housing and Lounge are located on the Fourth Level The fourth level dedicated to student housing. The rooftop garden is accessible by students only and is a secondary study area, taking advantage of the great annual sunny weather in Oakland. right Double Height Art School below Building Section

Seamless Connectivity The site provides an opportunity to connect several systems existing around the site: • as a new node in a proposed green network reaching out into the city from the epicenter of public activity at Lake Merritt, the proposed Green Network will provide a safer and more pleasant way of travel through the city not just for students but all citizens in that area.

Urban green space network

Surrounding city movement

Public and Private Gradient

• movement around the site from outward-inward in Oakland.

This creates the ideal layout to naturally allow the flow of users into the site, and its structures.

Green network entrances to site

Directional Movement through site

Public / Private directional access

• The existing surrounding buildings and their access.

Designating them as either private or public creates a gradient, rather than a stark contrast to the surroundings.

Brandon Reynolds right Analysis + Diagrams

SECTION / AXONOMETRIC DRAWING

The diagrams come together to form a connected node of activity and outreach for the city of Oakland.

SECTION / AXONOMETRIC / PERSPECTIVE DRAWINGS

Alley Capillaries This design uses the layout of the city as circulation on the site achieved by breaking up the block into smaller buildings. I chose to emphasize private and public space on the site as well as the connection to the surrounding.

By looking at the neighborhood surrounding the site, integrating community suggestions, and charting local art galleries, I discovered how creating public gallery and studio space would be valuable.

Kay Cassidy above Alleys break down the block.

left Massing model above Program diagram right Concept section Street view

BRO ADW AY

TELEG

The shape of the buildings was created but patterning the site with circulation and then cutting back the solid buildings to allow for open space. The slopes on the building accommodates vertical gardens which have direct access to sunlight. Building sizes vary so that small structures surround the largest building, thereby grounding the site. I kept all the buildings relatively low to the ground to allow the most sun as possible.

RAPH A VENUE

I tried to identify areas that would be welcoming to the public, not just to students. I wanted to create private green space on the roof of one of the buildings so students could still a have private outdoor space.

22ND STREET

CAMPUS ALLEY

21ST STREET

right Site Plan below Broadway elevation

Process + Observation With a focus on human movement, natural environment and built environment, these lines “summarize� each analysis into a simple shape. The combination of these shapes cut and divide the site to create a first dimension plan dedicated to local life, including humans and the environment.

Kaszandra Pena right Exploded Program Site Design Concept

The height analysis allows the project to fit in with the local built environment in a second dimension. Through specified programming and analyzing activities on a human scale, the massing will take shape and adapt in a third dimension. below Ground Level - Public Gallery

Concluding Proposals:

Create natural circulation PUBLIC INTERFACE

ALLEYS + PASSAGEWAYS ALLOW movement. NEW CIVIC ZONES BECOME POSSIBLE

WHAT IS THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN NATURE AND STRUCTURE?

ENGAGE WITH THE EXISTING

sympathy FOR people