Table of Contents
Site Analysis
Weather Demographics
Daylight savings time is observed on March 9 and ends on November 2 with a duration of 7.8 months in San Francisco. June 13 has the earliest sunrise at 5:47 AM and a late sunrise at 7:38 AM on November 1. The earliest sunset is at 4:50 PM on December 6 with a later sunset beginning at 8:35 PM on June 28.
During the 5-month wet season, most of the precipitation occurs on February with 0.04 inches over 8 days. The dry season lasts 7 months with the same amount of precipitation occurring only less than a day. Given the average temperatures in San Francisco, the warm season, lasting up to 4.5 months has an average daily high above 69 degrees Fahrenheit. From June 13 to October 24, the hottest month of the year occurs in September. Its cool season, lasting 2 months, has an average daily high below 59 degrees Fahrenheit. From December 04 to February 04, the coldest month occurs in January.
https://weatherspark.com/y/557/Average-Weather-in-San-Francisco-California-United-States-Year-Round
Winter Solar Orientation
Summer Solar Orientation
San Francisco Demographics
With 3,952 residents in the Presidio, the median age is 34 years. The Presidio contains US-born citizens making up 81.43% in the residential population with 7.29% of non-US -born citizens.
The working population in the Presidio contains 94.56% of employees in white-collar jobs and 5.44% of employees in blue-collar jobs.
Household incomes play an important role throughout the residential population with children included to earn higher income than being average. For instance, Presidio’s average annual household income stands at $274,058 with a median household income at $236,445 per year. Most of the housing units in the Presidio were built in 1939 or even before. In terms of education, the majority of students have earned a bachelor’s and graduate degree at 47.91%.
https://www.point2homes.com/US/Neighborhood/CA/San-Francisco-County/SanFrancisco/Presidio-Demographics.html
Site Analysis
The site history of the Presidio contains open spaces for many enthusiasts improving biophilic designs and enriching their community. They also make commitments by improving foot traffic and biking than automobile dependency. There are breathtaking views which look out to the ocean, Main Parade and Civil War Parade Ground.
Given the current conditions of noise level for oncoming street traffic, the benefits for public transit are endless with the addition of the Presidio GO Shuttle being the ONLY vehicular transport for improving public safety.
Site History
The Spanish military and civilian settlers arrived at the Presidio in 1776 to establish military garrisons, missions, and settlements. Before that, the presidio became a hub for the Ohlone/Costanoan people where they provided good maintenance for building small villages near the marshlands near Fort Mason, Crissy Field and Sutro Baths. In addition to growing native grasses, gathering seeds and other forages for deer and elk, they restored their native language, protected ancestral sites, understood traditional planting, provided storytelling, dance, song, and basket weaving. The National Park Service worked with Ohlone/Costanoan groups by preserving and interpreting their ancestral sites in the Presidio.
However, in 1821, the conflict between the government and New Spain escalated to the formation of the Mexican Republic leading to Mexico gaining independence. The Mexican American War in 1846 became a significance of the U.S. forces occupying the Presidio in 1846 after California got transferred by treaty from Mexico to the US. The discovery of gold promoted the growth of San Francisco in 1849 when the U.S. Government established a permanent military base near the San Francisco Bay.
The Presidio’s recognition comes from training and housing a large number of troops to help people get up through sacrifice and resilience.
https://www.nps.gov/prsf/learn/historyculture/index.htm
Building Analysis
34 Graham Street
San Francisco, 94129
NOTES
People looking across unobstructed views of the San Francisco Bay and its exterior landscape, the amount of natural light becomes a feature of sustainabil ty with proper plumbing, mechan cal, and electr cal codes to make it a healthy building for them to access t anytime.
Views
North - Crissy Field San Francisco Bay
East - Civil War Parade Ground, Mixed Use Buildings
West - Main Parade Lawn, Walt Disney Family Museum
South - Parking Lot
Ceiling Height:
• •Second Floor = First Floor: = 14'-2" 12'-11"
• Roof= 11'-0"
Hari Balaji
Precedent Studies for National Geographic Project
Case Study #1 - Denver Art Museum (Museum)
Denver, Colorado, USA
Description
Designed by OMA, the art museum contains numerous art galleries with a need of reunifying the campus and a leading renovation project done by Machado Silvetti. With this renovation becoming a significant moment through interior design and space planning, 19,000 works are comprised dating from 16th century until today. The Denver Art Museum created new design galleries by connecting the Stanton gallery on Level 1. The completion of the gallery in 2021 contains 7,750 sq.ft. Many spatial typologies happen in the piazza featuring displayed objects with many islands and piers placed in the center allowing views from multiple vantage points. A modular and flexible catalog of platforms help expand the diversity of types, sizes and mediums of design objects on display. Given its contemporary design strategies, the Denver Art Museum features a wide array of design practices such as architecture, furniture, industrial and graphic design.
Client Organization
As a non-profit organization and a family-friendly museum, the business employees promote artistry through breaking away from the status quo and analyzing differently when it comes to visualizing art in different forms. With Gio Ponti’s design for the museum coming into the spotlight, the three rooms include the Interactive Studio, a piazza-like Design Gallery, and a topographic Mezzanine Gallery to stimulate “urban” activity within the museum as they are interconnected.
Response
The architects and designers who built and redesigned the museum focused on bringing minimalism to express simplicity and functionality for everyone to tour around without bumping onto each other. Also, having a variety of different designs enables kids to learn and get creative through endless imaginations. The employees and staff members working at the museum can have an open yet safe workplace for them to work productively and provide creative hubs for everyone to express their own creativity. Many exhibits in the museum showcase the stories taken from Indigenous Arts of North America to Latin American, Asian, European, Modern and Contemporary Art. Since Denver is also a green city like SF and Chicago, the level of bringing biophilic design elements to the outside of the museum attracts visitors from all ages and experience the vision of art which spans time, countries, and cultures.
Insights
By visualizing the spaces created within this museum, the biggest success Gio Ponti transformed was the Mezzanine Gallery by incorporating compositional techniques that reminded him of his furniture design and designed a curved entry echoing the swooping curves of the Martin building with the displaying platforms and walls rotated to the city grid.
Case Study #2 - Paris Saint German Flagship Store (Retail)
Gangnam District, South Korea
Description
Designed by often Studio with leading architects, Jinsoo Kim, Suji Kim, and Jinsu Yang, this coffee shop serves a world-class experience of large-scale spaces for players to enjoy unlimited access to football and purchase their own clothing and goods. The 1st floor serves as a cafe/bar and the 2nd floor showcasing PSG products. The 3rd floor provides a welcoming space for players to collaborate with its office on the 4th floor.
Client Organization
The players representing Paris Sain-Germain want a fun space by getting together and extending their football culture into clothing and other goods that would sell their products and merchandise faster. Its conceptual design of merging local and global elements creates a “vertical plaza” resembling the streets in Paris.
Response
The design style evokes a sense of community and engages other people to follow their dreams. Both the interior and exterior provide a seamless connection to the busy streets with its branding and the exterior facade itself standing out as a high-end retail clothing store. The dynamic color palettes are simple yet artistic and bold because of the main color hues shown in blue, red, and light gray.
Insights
Large windows give privacy between inside and outside evoking all spaces as classic and a retro atmosphere. Many view parties are hosted for major PSG matches, bringing a Parisian pub vibe to Seoul. The strengths for this project were envisioning and delivering the concept of sports entertainment with excellent marketing expertise. The designs for the Paris-Saint Germain coffee shop reminds me of nearby bakeries filled with the aroma of breads, savories, and healthy snacks.
Case Study #3 - S NINE Multifunctional Co-working Space(Office)
Pune, India
Description Response
Designed by PMA Madhushala as a leading architect, the S NINE, located in Pune, India serves as a multifunctional coworking office to take advantage of the commercial viability of development with adopting conformist structure enveloped in a glass box for addressing the aspirations and dynamic requirements of the user. As a living entity, the site sits on a rapid sprawl of glass boxes, resulting misinterpreting urbanization.
Client Organization
The end users are the clients that get inspired by the natural red sandstones (25mm) with a grid of planters and fenestration to improve the overall vegetation.
The goals for the design are to develop sensitive and multifunctional design which can respond to its surroundings and the end user with respect to the architectural vocabulary. This provides an evolution from the ethos of the place and staying rooted in the loci physically and culturally.
Insights
This building was designed as an active organism that can breathe, mutate, and transform through seasons and utilize its expression taken by the end user. The aspiration was adopted by the earlier times of planters protruding on the streets with the buildings in Pune. The celebration of life and nature was aimed to make a nostalgia with plants by the window that can be touched, felt, and watered from the inside creating a distinct bond with users. This, in turn, creates a sense of belonging and brings life to the internal environment for the user of the space. The external environment, in addition, becomes lively with the natural planter fenestration with the semi-permeable natural skin serving the dual purpose of planters and a shading device for the building.
Concept Development
Concept Development
PURPOSE
The concept of ‘Green Luxury’ will feature architectural columns blending with the Spanish Revival architecture while incorporating many historic paintings of the Natural Presidio. The digital paintings will blend in with neutral-cooler tones of green and blue to highlight the overall landscapes of the Big Lawns near the Presidio campgrounds and the San Francisco Bay itself.
CLIENT GOAL
The National Geographic Society wishes to develop a mixed-use building that will house their West Coast office headquarters as well as a retail space for visitors, a public exhibit space for art/photography /educational exhibits, and a cafe.
DESIGN INTENT
The National Geographic Museum will incorporate the use of children’s area to let kids boost their creative mindsets on letting their imaginations run wild through reading, drawing, painting, and coloring. This also applies to kids with learning disabilities such as autism, anxiety disorder, etc.
The ‘Green Luxury’ concept will shape its values by bringing sustainable design, custom furniture, and historic artifacts from the Presidio that helped it become a national landmark. Also, the retail and loading dock will feature a state-of-the-art bioluminescent river resembling the views of the San Francisco Bay but, in a whole, new direction.
DESIGN APPROACH
The design features for my ‘Green Luxury’ concept will include red natural sandstones for structural safety in addition to the planters and fenestration for the bottom sill of the windows. Merchandise displays of artifacts taken from the 19th and 20th centuries from the Presidio and the indigenous materials Native Ohlones used to build temporary and permanent village sites including hunting, fishing, and gathering.
Programming Requirements
Programming Requirements (cont.d)
Block Diagrams (1st Floor [Option #1-2])
Block Diagrams (1st Floor [Option #3])
Block Diagrams (2nd Floor [Option #1-2])
Block Diagrams (2nd Floor [Option #3])
Material Selections
Schematic Design Planning
1ST FLOOR
FIRSTFLOORPLAN
SCALE: 1/4" = 1' - 0"
Spatial Design Needs
Natural light and ventilation
ADA Compliant Restrooms
Kid and family friendly from exhibition tours to creative activities to expand their educational knowledge and lifelong learning
Hi-tech security systems
NATIONAL
PUBLIC RESTROOMS NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PLUMBING
CALCULATION ANALYSIS
Public Toilets Calculation
Female 1 per 65 = 2
Male 1 per 125 = 1
Lavatories 1 per 200
Female = 1
Male = 1
FIRE EXIT PLUMBING LINE
1-HR RATED WALL
FIRSTFLOORPLAN LEGEND
FIRE EXTINGUISHER
DRINKING WATER FOUNTAIN
BABY CHANGING RESTROOM STATION
1ST FLOOR
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HEADQUARTERS
CODE
COMPLIANCY ANALYSIS MAP
SCALE: 1/4" = 1' - 0"
LEGEND
FIRE EXIT PLUMBING LINE
1-HR RATED WA
FIRE EXTINGUISHER
DRINKING WATER FOUNTAIN
2ND FLOOR
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HEADQUARTERS
CODE
COMPLIANCY ANALYSIS MAP
BABY CHANGING RESTROOM STATION
SECONDFLOORPLAN
SCALE: 1/4" = 1' - 0"
Floor Plan Layouts
FIRSTFLOORFURNITUREPLAN
SCALE: 1/4" = 1' - 0"
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SECONDFLOORFURNITUREPLAN
SCALE: 1/4" = 1' - 0"
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NOTES: HVAC to be provided throughout.
Ceiling Heights are 12' - 10" Gypsum
Board Ceilings covered in Plaster on top of Alum num Ce ling T les TYP of Wall Finishes.
*Please refer to Ceiling Finish in Light ng Legend
Digital Perspective Sketches
Digital Perspective Sketches
Level 1 Cafe and Exhibition
String lighting to make the cafe look moody but, welcoming for kids and families to dine comfortably
State-of-the-Art NatGeo Ceiling Lamp w/LED Strip and mini-colorful LED Recess Lights
Stone Flooring throughout the cafe
Oval glass and aluminum dining table
Stone Flooring throughout the cafe
Digital Perspective Sketches
Level 2 Open Workspace / Level 1 Reception and
Lobby
State-of-the-Art Green Leaf Clock resembling the art of Green Luxury
State-of-the-Art NatGeo Futuristic Sculpture resembling the Museum of Future in Dubai
Digital Paintings
Spanish Architectural Columns reminiscing the history of the Presidio
Floral Biophilic Wallpaper
Reception Desk
Elevation and Materials
Level #1 Reception Presentation
Level #1 Exhibition
Los Lunas
Green Ceramic
Subway Tile
Bohemia LED
Polycarbonate
Pendant Lamp
Galleria Carrara Marble Bench
Konoha Leaf Bench
Herman Miller Tuxedo Bench
Level #1 Cafe Presentation
Level #2 Open Workspace
Perspective Renders
Cafe Render
The balance of texture from the Sage Green Art Deco Wallpaper in transition to the cafe with continuous rhythm of string lights makes it feel classy and moody for kids and families to dine comfortably. The amount of detail and attention to the millwork for the ADA Bar Cash Register Counter serves a purpose for reducing physical and mental barriers while receiving proper assistance.
Incorporating the elements of custom wood with polished quartz countertops makes it look sleek, fresh, and open from sustainable harvesting.
This perspective rendering of the reception becomes inviting and welcoming for visitors to be greeted in a professional manner while making it accessible for disabilities to interact with the receptionists featuring ADA Counters and a State-of-the-Art National Geographic Futuristic Sculpture.
Reception Render
Exhibition Render
The exhibition rendering is a safe and quiet place for visitors to look around and see all the artwork displayed by many artists who have been creative and have represented outstanding accomplishments back in their days.
Open Workspace Render
Since the second floor incorporates the same wallpaper throughout office spaces, meeting and conference rooms, and the open workspace, the benefits of employees working for National Geographic become more diverse while demonstrating a productive setting for productive work and efficiency.
ADA Compliant Restroom Render
Continuing with my ‘Green Luxury’ concept for the restrooms, the use of ADA grab bars behind the toilets prevents people from falling over and losing their balance. The green ceramic subway tiles on the wall present a handmade feel for a refined artisanal-inspired look with rustic details that provide depth to its edges.
Similar to the 1800's inspired history of the Presidio from the exhibition, these ceramic tiles are also Spanish made which every tile can be expressed through a modern countryside style with a mix of pattern and color offering softly hued solids and rustic finishes that catch a person’s eye for decorative details.
Design Narrative
My ‘Green Luxury’ design concept incorporates the use of ADA Compliance, sustainability, and the history of the Presidio including polished marble backsplash tiles with light green paint and an art deco wallpaper. As a mixed-use building, the retail space, exhibits, and a café are welcoming for all visitors by displaying art, photography, and important artifacts taken from the Presidio. Visitors touring the first floor will notice the sustainable materials like the FSC Wallpaper for the exterior walls qualified for LEED Credits, latex paints offsetting VOC emissions, and custom furniture pieces containing recyclable contents and are fire rated. Ergonomics plays an important role for National Geographic employees to work efficiently and come up with new ideas with never-before-seen exhibits for visitors.
ADA Compliancy is essential to reduce physical and mental barriers for visitors with disabilities to have fair access as normal visitors. Providing a connection to nature helps kids foster creativity and passion to thrive in a competitive environment.
Works Cited
LIGHTING CITATIONS
https://bim.archiproducts.com/en/products/intra-lighting/led-opal-glass-pendant-lamp-lysabel-s-chandelier 731555
https://bim.archiproducts.com/en/products/marset/led-polycarbonate-pendant-lamp-bohemia 587964
https://bim.archiproducts.com/en/products/artemide/led-aluminum-pendant-lamp-look-at-me 445546
https://bim.archiproducts.com/en/products/artemide/methacrylate-wall-lamp-ceiling-lamp-alphabet-of-light-circular_487453
FURNITURE CITATIONS
https://bim.archiproducts.com/en/products/sancal/bench-konoha_36728
https://bim.archiproducts.com/en/products/salvatori/carrara-marble-bench-galleria_306120
https://bim.archiproducts.com/en/products/blasco-villa/upholstered-fabric-chair-with-armrests-rc-wood-soft_727149
https://bim.archiproducts.com/en/products/pulpo/pval-glass-and-aluminum-dining-table-tavolo2_572483
https://bim.archiproducts.com/en/products/bassamfellows/rectangular-solid-wood-dining-table-kant_448123
https://bim.archiproducts.com/en/products/s-cab/trestle-based-fabric-chair-with-armrests-lady-b-pop_389011
https://bim.archiproducts.com/en/products/herman-miller/upholstered-fabric-bench-tuxedo_429149
Works Cited (cont.d)
PLUMBING CITATIONS
https://bim.archiproducts.com/en/products/salvatori/wall-mounted-rectangular-marble-washbasin-stiletto_305881
https://bim.archiproducts.com/en/products/cristina-rubinetterie/single-handle-kitchen-mixer-tap-prime-cripe522_691638
MISCALLANEOUS FINISHES CITATIONS
https://www.tilebar.com/los-lunas-green-4x12-ceramic-tile.html
https://www.materialbank.com/concrete-lcda-panbeton-classic-1808112?
itemListId=quick view&itemListName=Quick+View&index=1&activeChild=897504
https://www.materialbank.com/dunn-edwards-arboretum-1165142?itemListId=quick_view&itemListName=Quick%20View&index=1
https://www.spoonflower.com/en/wallpaper/177336977?sku=wall-pw-i12-w127-d17733697
https://www.tilebar.com/monarch-winter-magic.html