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This new development in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood provides much needed housing and services for local homeless families. The building will make available one-bedroom and studio units for 83 families, as well as community rooms, program spaces, and outdoor courtyard spaces. The 66,000 project is one of five of the City’s pilot program to test the effectiveness of strategies and methods of construction delineated in the Green Communities guidelines that have been in use in larger cities of the Pacific Northwest.
Cliff Lowe Associates has prepared the design and construction documentation for the street frontage at Eddy Street, and three courtyard spaces within the building. The west courtyard at the street level is connected to the large community room, and can serve either as a spill-out space for meetings and communal programs, or as a place for more intimate interactions. On the second floor, the east courtyard is dedicated to children’s use. With simple use of resilient color surfacing, site furniture, and large chalk board activity wall it provides a stimulating space for small children to play, ride bicycles, and be creative. The rooftop terrace provides a place for socializing around picnic tables, and low planters for residential gardening.
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