Courtesy of 2016 AIA Housing Awards

• Houses 91 very low-income and special-needs homeless seniors, many of whom have been displaced with the Bay Area’s rapidly rising housing costs
• Has extensive on-site services
• Designed to support independent living, with strong transit connections to downtown Oakland and San Francisco and access to amenities (such as a pharmacy and grocery)
• Provides indoor and outdoor community spaces at both the ground floor and upper levels
• Rooftop suite of community spaces overlooks the lake
• Has extensive on-site services
• Designed with complementary series of sustainable strategies
  • Pending LEED for Homes Mid-Rise Platinum Certification
• Massing of the building is broken into 2 volumes that step down toward the lake (creates a transition between the existing mid-rises and low-scale residences)
• Design is responsive to neighborhood feedback, and care was taken with the profile to protect light and views enjoyed by adjacent buildings
• The main entrance at the southern corner connects with service offices and multi-use community rooms
• The in-progress art program is a partnership with a local non-profit gallery that supports developmentally disabled artists