Ping Yuen Housing Renovation 2008
(In Progress) Chinatown,
San Francisco, CA.
- New exterior glass
elevators will be added
to building facade facing public street.
- The public space now extends vertically
over the building surface allowing the residents
to open small shops and offices right from their own home.
A prototype
shop-house
with multi-level
pedestrian access at
every other floors.
More opportunities for
small businesses
in high-density cities
where the cost of leasing a ground floor space is prohibitive
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401 Fairmount, Oakland,
CA, 2008 (In Progress)
Cost: $ 4.0 million
3 story, 35 units,
apartment building.
A new geometry
for compact housing
in the age of peak oil
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Oak
Park Apartments
A 37 units apartment
complex. An urban farm
was provided for residents
who want to grow their own
food. Cost: $3.8 million
Date Completed: 2004
As the majority of the world's population
move towards the cities, several urban
land use patterns have emerged.
Ordinary X-Y maps become inadequate
tools for analyzing land use efficiency
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Urgent
Care Clinic
A conversion of an existing
warehouse into an urgent
care clinic with residential
units above.
Cost: $2.0 million
(In Progress)
was ideal for the brewing of radical ideas
and innovative (subversive) activities.
The alleyways were privately owned and
were not shown on the official city
maps until quite recently. >>more
