Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Long absence, tall reason

You may be wondering about why it has been so long since I posted anything, simply put: school.  Immediately after our return from winter break my architecture professors handed us another assignment, design a tower for down town San Francisco.  It was to hold 80 young professional loft apartments, 60 apartments for transitional homeless to aid them in reintegrating with society, street front retail shops and at least one other "financial" program of my choice, for this I chose a 5-star restaurant and 18 high class hotel rooms.  To design this building we were given 20 days, that is now half past.  We have an intermediate peer review session tomorrow and I decided to take advantage of the work I have done so far and put it on here.  My apartments are 280 square feet each and alternate between lofts and transitional apartments in the middle floors, I didn't want to separate the programs to much to avoid a dominant hierarchy between them.  Attached is my 3D sketch model made in Rhino and the hotel and apartment floor plans.  Floor plans for the first three floors are in the works but aren't complete yet.  As of this moment the tower stands at 330 feet but that is without a roof or mechanical systems.  The project is located on an empty lot on Mission St adjacent to the new transport hub.



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