REVITALIZING DOWNTOWN SAN FRANCISCO
A conceptual photomontage precedent demonstrating the insertion of a framed high-rise tower into an existing dense urban fabric.
- What we like about this project
- The central section incorporates double-height communal zones breaking the uniform grid.
Materials
- mass-timber
- glass
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- timber-grid-facade
- photomontage
- urban-insertion
- recessed-balconies
Style tags
- contemporary
- montage
- conceptual
Visual tags
- urban-infill
- high-rise
- mass-timber
- proposal
- montage
- Geometry
- Elevational photomontage set against a high-angle aerial perspective of an existing urban grid, inserting a slender rectilinear grid tower.
- Facade system
- Exposed structural grid with recessed floor-to-ceiling glazing and integrated balconies.
- Structural guess
- Mass timber post-and-beam frame with concrete core
- Spatial scale
- High-rise scale, roughly twenty stories tall, flanked by surrounding mid-rise and high-rise commercial structures.
- Lighting
- Daylight with crisp vertical sun casting gentle shadows across the recessed floor plates and balconies.
- Atmosphere
- Optimistic and airy, showing a porous structural framework introducing natural light and greenery into the downtown core.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban downtown grid adjacent to a coastal bay edge.
- Spatial experience
- The view looks across dense urban blocks toward open water, presenting the new tower as a porous structural frame integrated into the existing skyline.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict orthogonal grid of vertical columns and horizontal floor slabs creating a rhythmic cellular facade.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban proposal montage
- Program
- Mixed-use high-rise commercial and residential
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- mass-timber, glass, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- timber-grid-facade, photomontage, urban-insertion, recessed-balconies
- Style tags
- contemporary, montage, conceptual
- Visual tags
- urban-infill, high-rise, mass-timber, proposal, montage
- Geometry
- Elevational photomontage set against a high-angle aerial perspective of an existing urban grid, inserting a slender rectilinear grid tower.
- Facade system
- Exposed structural grid with recessed floor-to-ceiling glazing and integrated balconies.
- Structural guess
- Mass timber post-and-beam frame with concrete core
- Spatial scale
- High-rise scale, roughly twenty stories tall, flanked by surrounding mid-rise and high-rise commercial structures.
- Lighting
- Daylight with crisp vertical sun casting gentle shadows across the recessed floor plates and balconies.
- Atmosphere
- Optimistic and airy, showing a porous structural framework introducing natural light and greenery into the downtown core.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban downtown grid adjacent to a coastal bay edge.
- Spatial experience
- The view looks across dense urban blocks toward open water, presenting the new tower as a porous structural frame integrated into the existing skyline.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict orthogonal grid of vertical columns and horizontal floor slabs creating a rhythmic cellular facade.
- Style reading
- Contemporary urban proposal montage
- Program
- Mixed-use high-rise commercial and residential
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture