The public life of the street is celebrated in Bay Meadows, a new urban community whose motto is “Life in motion.” In approaching the design of a temporary sales office for the site, BCV Architects sought to embody the placemaking that is the hallmark of the new community now taking shape.
BCV adopted American architect Robert Venturi’s strategy of declaring the small building a civic monument through the traditional western town move of creating an exaggerated façade, rendered here as a living green wall by Habitat Horticulture. The ever-changing nature of the green wall and the expansive front porch invites visitors and future residents to return and revisit the first toehold of the civic life of the community.