URBAN RENEWAL

The first task in any regenerative project involves listening. While we may come to the table with ideas on the work to be done, to truly understand a place we must step outside of our preconceptions and pay attention to what is. This project, sponsored by PG&E, involved the creation of a series of community based guidelines for future development of a decommissioned power plant site in one of the most underserved neighborhoods in San Francisco; Hunter’s Point. In collaboration with an international design team, including Studio O, Studio MLA, and Tatiana Bilbao Architects, the resulting Vision Document combines multiple outreach meetings, listening sessions, and design charrettes into a record of the history and voices of this place, while creating an appropriate template for its future. Focus was placed on creating a healthy, resilient, and diverse community, as well as on walkability, economic and social engagement, transit centered design, access to open space, ecological conservation and renewal, and high performance affordable housing. It is only through observing, listening, and understanding what is that we tap into the potential for what can be.

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Design credit © urb-in; Photography © Tom Fitzgerald, © Anne Hamersky