Centrally located in the growing Mission Bay neighborhood of San Francisco, HomeRise at Mission Bay demonstrates the city’s and non-profit partners’ commitment to investing in a community based on social, financial and environmental resilience, equity, sustainability and integration.
Located near multiple transit stops, HomeRise at Mission Bay is designed to architecturally integrate into the evolving neighborhood. The 92,535-square-foot, 4-story project combines healthy, welcoming, and supportive housing (140 studio apartments) with 24-hour reception, indoor and outdoor tenant community spaces and onsite services to support residents progressing into housing stability.
The exterior design responds to the neighborhood’s residential scale, unit articulation, materials, and colors. The interior design centers on creating welcoming, warm, residential spaces by maximizing natural daylight and views to the garden and neighborhood, through use of natural materials, and by creating ease of way finding. The landscape design responds to the tidal nature of the bay and provides native species and stormwater management strategies. A community garden provides a healthy activity, food source, education, and acts as a community resource providing opportunity for engagement between the HomeRise residents and the neighborhood at large. The large resident’s courtyard is made up of multiple smaller spaces with different social, contemplative, and health focuses.
The design team gave high priority to investments in a wide range of sustainable and resilient design strategies, which are aligned with the ownership team’s long-term operation and inhabitation goals. These strategies support a design with the flexibility to adapt to future environmental conditions, conditions that are becoming clearer in the recent years of wildfires, power outages and a global pandemic. Integrated sustainable design strategies include energy efficient exterior envelope and windows, enhanced air quality ventilation systems, a roof top solar renewable energy canopy, solar (photovoltaic) battery backup and recycled water infrastructure, elevating ground floor level in response to future flood threats, and engineered walks and ramps that will maintain accessibility when predicted significant ground subsidence occurs outside the building footprint.
Modular (factory-built) construction provided the three upper floors while site-built construction formed the foundation, ground floor and exterior cladding systems including the roof. An example of the team’s commitment to innovative construction methods, this hybrid construction approach capitalizes on the potential benefits of shortening the construction schedule by overlapping factory and site construction schedules, employing a significant amount of local labor, and reducing construction waste.
The project has a Green Point Rated Multifamily score of Platinum.
Community Engagement
The project team engaged in a process that insured input from neighbors was heard and incorporated throughout the design process, from Predesign through Design Development. LMSA met with the neighborhood group (Mission Bay Community Action Committee) on evenings, after work, in order to maximize turn out; and led tours at one of our completed projects with a similar program for all who were interested. During our presentations to the neighborhood group and leading of group tours we asked and answered questions to discover the concerns and desires of the group, and in subsequent meetings would discuss the topics raised in the last meeting showing how the community’s input had influenced the design. We also organized and led round tables with the client’s services, and then facilities staff, to better define their programmatic needs; and LMSA worked alongside HomeRise to conduct a post occupancy evaluation for a similar building, Rene Cazenave Apartments, which has the same user group and program and used the lessons learned to inform the design of HomeRise.
LEDDY MAYTUM STACY Architects design team
Richard Stacy
Vanna Whitney
Nicholas Elster
Howie Russel
Enrique Sanchez
Jerome Christensen
Aruna Bolisetty
Project team
Architect: LEDDY MAYTUM STACY Architects
Associate Architects: Lowney Architecture and Y.A. Studio
Developer: HomeRise + BRIDGE Housing
General Contactor: CAHILL
Landscape: TS Studio
Photography
Bruce Damonte
