Research about Market Street, San Francisco.
Market Street is one of San Francisco main streets, but it can be dangerous and unpleasand. KMD wanted to do a study to know which where the problems. For that, the Firm had several days of internal job, and the result was the creation of a web site. In that website, San Francisco citizens would be able to express their own opinios and ideas.
The outcome was a study, and several ideas of urban development, but also ideas that include Architecture and social conditions.
Cruise Terminal in Pier 27, San Francisco.
The Pier 27 is actually an industrial wrehouse. The Harbor Authorities have decided to create there a new terminal for cruises, used 80 days per year, and a public space that could be used the rest of the year. That space would have a close relationship with The Embarcadero. The project pretends to create a new builiding, or to modificate the existing one, so the relationship between harbor and water becomes easier.
City Hall in Hecules, CA (USA).
Hercules is a city located in the bay of San Francisco. The project is to design a new civic center, in the same site where is the actual one. The programm includes a City Hall, a Police Station, a building for the administrative offices and a parking. Our intervention tries to create also a new public space, and to relate the new City Hall with the new City Library, that is in the opposite site.
