A view of the patios, public park and playground connecting the two buildings at Hunters View Phase III
"If City Hall wants its residents to get behind the 'Family Zoning' plan, it needs to work a lot harder with the architecture and development community to figure out how to deliver multifamily housing that's not just dense but well designed."
In the San Francisco Chronicle, Allison Arieff argues that the legal path to more housing in San Francisco is largely settled, and that the design of that housing now deserves real scrutiny.
She cites DBA for multifamily housing done well, pointing to Hunters View Phase III—a two-building affordable housing redevelopment (designed in partnership with Min Design Co)—and 1633 Valencia, a 146-unit permanent supportive housing community for seniors in the Mission District.
Realizing projects like these takes creativity, tenacity, optimism, and sustained input from the neighborhoods we build in. Decades of that work has turned into an understanding of how people actually live in their homes and communities, and that understanding helps us make new buildings that are welcome on the block.
Read the full article on the San Francisco Chronicle website.
