Micro-Hood
San Francisco’s downtown commercial district is re-envisioned for the post-pandemic society through the design of the Micro-Hood, a self-sustaining neighborhood within the adaptive reuse of the historic PG&E block, reenvisioned in its entirety. The interconnected array of existing buildings is well-suited to house a collaborative, shared-use neighborhood and community at the heart of a future urban neighborhood model. This Micro-Hood concept includes: closing and transforming Beale Street between Market and Mission into a public green, creating an elevated connected garden level within the block, introducing a mix of housing types from efficiency units to family flats, public amenities, i.e. a natatorium at Market, a myriad of small business retailers and food & beverage, a community center, maker space, fitness programs, daycare, and urgent-care clinic. The retrofitted buildings support programs for urban agriculture, light manufacturing, water treatment, energy production, and energy storage; designed for net-zero energy production and water/waste processing.
Project Info
- “Introducing the Micro-hood: Retrofitting San Francisco’s Building Stock in a Post-Pandemic World,” The Registry SF, 25 Sep, 2020
- “Could San Francisco become a city of ‘micro-hoods?” Archinect, 23 July 2020.
- “Imagining an Eco-Friendly Post-Pandemic Downtown,” San Francisco Public Press, 21 July 2020.
- “It’s time to rethink downtown SF. Here’s one of the most radical visions out there,” SF Chronicle, 14 Jul 2020.
