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in conjunction with LDA Architects
Michael Tauber Architecture is currently Associate Architect (design lead) on a Hope SF sponsored redevelopment of the San Francisco Housing Authority’s Westside Courts housing development. This development, 180 units on 2.2 acres, sits on a block by a block site on the edge of Pacific Heights.
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MTA is providing and presenting design options to replace all and/or rehab some of the existing 136 units and 38 parking spaces on site based on the existing residents, neighbors and City’s needs. The public process has involved the City of San Francisco’s Housing Authority, Planning Department and the Mayor’s Office of Housing as well as the resident council at Westside Courts and the neighboring community.
The design approach is to provide 4 story buildings that house community services such as the multipurpose room, leasing offices and daycare on the Broderick street side of the site, closer to the main transit lines, the commercial corridor and heights found on Divisadero Street. The Baker Street side is limited to three stories and residential functions only, keeping the scale and use compatible with the neighboring buildings.
The development, taking advantage of the slope in the existing streets, will have a structured parking lot with housing ringing the parking to enliven the street. The structured parking affords the opportunity to increase the housing density while providing more purposeful use of shared outdoor space.
To maintain the existing street pattern and to address the street, all buildings will have entries and stoops from the street while upper units will be accessed from the interior courtyards at the podium level, providing eyes on both the courtyards and the streets below.
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