A Place Apart
The first uniquely funded and integrated residential Highrise to be developed in the Polk Community Corridor in the Heart of San Francisco will be a place of retreat from the bustling commercial corridor where small courtyard’s, and multiple roof top amenity terraces will provide the green spaces and exterior community gathering spaces that are so rare in this urban central area just north of the cities Civic Center. INTERSTICE designed a series of elevated landscapes to serve as a dog park, a meditative health and fitness environment, a recreational roof deck, and an extensive outdoor dining and social center with breathtaking views for the new 406 unit community on multiple levels throughout the building.
An Intimate Court
At the street scape level the new building has a new gym, a childcare center, bike storage entries and two lobby spaces that support its connection to the commercial activity of the surrounding streets and alleys. The Entry Courtyard serves the gym as a meditative yoga breakout “room” while providing a visual amenity to the two story work-out spaces inside.
A Puppy Play-Deck
On the 7th floor the first building setback provides the site for an open lushly vegetated roof that surrounds a dedicated pet area for the community to sit and visit with their 4 legged companions. Here places to sit and work, or lounge and gather over play-dates are integrated beside an exterior dog wash station and generous seating and small trees to offer shade and buffer winds.
A High Perch
The top two floors have the most commanding views and here one social deck extends the community gathering space outside to provide a variety of dining and seating “rooms” divided by deep planters and ample furnishings. The top floor has the most extensive “wrap-around” landscape that provides outdoor cooking, high and low top dining, an Algonquin Cahir turf social area, in addition to a parade of couched and planter seated areas that allow casual gathering and dinning, to more formalized areas for games, an exterior hot-tub enclosure, and an enclosed glass green house dining room with exceptional views to the west.
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Location: San Francisco
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