Courtesy of 2015 AIA Housing Awards

• Located on the corner of 30th Street and Upas Street in San Diego
• Used to be filled with decaying structures
• Houses 27 units on the floor above the ground plane and 4 commercial spaces (2 restaurants, a beer-tasting bar, and an architectural office)
• The street level facade recedes into the property, forming outdoor community gathering and interaction spaces serving the retail
  • Opens completely to the community
• There’s a true sense of pedestrian-scale and community interaction as one moves through the project
• There is a garden courtyard, private decks, and circulation paths interwoven through the project
• There are no gates or boundaries, no double-loaded corridors
• The public can move freely move throughout the entire property, only limited by low physical boundaries when approaching the individual units
• Multiple entrances through different nodes of the project to allow one to transfer between the commercial ground plane along the street, to the interior garden and courtyard space and then the stairs to the second level residential circulation path
• Tenants enter their units through semi-private exterior patios raised 2 feet above the adjacent public walkway
  • Allow for a sense of privacy while maintaining visual connection to the central court, enhances the sense of community