Dwell Magazine had a little competition to design a house for a site in San Francisco, at Crissy Field in view of the Golden Gate Bridge. In response to the very public site, and the conceit of putting a private house there, I chose to elevate the residence and downsize it to about 900 sf. and use the rest of the site as public sculpture park and a community hall/gallery/exhibition space. The structure features a glass security screen with a photovoltaic layer cut from an abstract foliage design from one of my prints (tree boom, see below), keeping the house off the grid. When in use, the community hall opens up to the northwest toward the bridge. Stormwater is stored and used to feed a rooftop edible garden.
It was a fun little exercise and gave me a chance to experiment with some other Sketchup functionalities that I don't normally use, and do some extra credit research on PV systems. I'm pretty sure I didn't win, especially since I took their program and dumped it on its head.
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