California College of Arts San Francisco Campus
Sustainability - Community Relationship
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Building Summary California College of Arts San Francisco Campus, designed by Skidmore Owings and Merrill-SOM, at San Francisco, California, 1951, renovated and converted 1997 to 1998.
A industrial maintenance facility converted to art school, art college, with long-span concrete frame and glass construction, in a mild temperate climate and urban context. A high-sustainability building, based on extensive daylighting, solar hydronic heating, and natural ventilation.
Community Relationship Adaptive reuse preserves neighborhood character. Low-rise massing preserves viewshed. A good neighbor, bringing a positive concentration of general and cultural activity while retaining a landmark industrial building.
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Community Relationship Discussion California College of Arts San Francisco Campus Community Relationship

The surrounding neighborhood of the California College of Arts San Francisco Campus building is a low density, run-down fading industrial district. In this context, with little or no adjacent housing, and with few if any immediate residents, the daily and extended occupancy provided by the arts college brings a significant breath of life. It helps support local shops and eateries that add amenity to the district.

With no change in building footprint or skyline, there was little net community impact beyond the substantially increased occupancy. And through the adaptive reuse of the industrial bus maintenance facilty, its historic and functionally elegant presence continues to provide direct visual continuity with the working past.

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