Leveled up corner.
Ground up rebuild gives a SOMA corner a fresh new identity
500 Brannan is a five-story mixed use new build in San Francisco, California. It combines three lots to create a single, showcase corner building at one of the busiest intersections in SOMA.
SOMA is a diverse neighborhood. Its buildings are typically functional and straightforward with an occasional decorative flourish at the street facade. The result is a layered collage that can be viewed in more and more unpredictable ways as alley use and mid-block connections are strengthened.
The organic collage of the neighborhood will inspire a building that is rigorously composed to compliment it, providing layered programs and architecture that intentionally make space for a diverse future within.
500 Brannan Street
LOCATION:
San Francisco, CA
SIZE:
40,000 SF
SCOPE:
Architecture
Interior Design
Environmental Graphic Design
RENDERINGS:
Design Blitz
The building is carefully considered for its site, continuing the collage of its context neighborhood by contrasting a historic building on the adjacent corner. As proposed, a solid mass with punched openings is lifted above a more transparent two-story volume. This glass base engages the street with active programs of a restaurant, retail spaces, and office lobby.
Composed of a hybrid steel and cross laminated timber structure, the building contains four floors of bio-tech ready office space sandwiched between food and beverage spaces on the ground floor and roof.
The building will be pulled back along 4th street along the MUNI metro stop creating a civic gesture that transitions indoors to a 3-story atrium spanning from the basement to the 2nd floor. The building is punctuated by an occupiable roof deck, allowing SOMA to be observed and appreciated from a new perspective.
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