Designed around a series of three dimensionally located public spaces, this complex will be home to Dropbox. It consists of two 6-story buildings and two 12-story towers. The specialization of each building creates specific character having to do with adjacent site context and requirements. All four buildings are interconnected, enabling the lower floors to feature large contiguous spaces.
Plazas and courtyards at street level will provide open space for building users and the public alike. The project’s collection of programmed public spaces also includes pocket parks and lush rain gardens scattered throughout the project. Setbacks along the primary facades create opportunities for terraces, private gardens, and balconies for the building users. Roof gardens, created by modulating the overall building mass, provide a secondary series of spaces functioning at the scale of the adjacent freeway.
This project has been designed to bring active urban spaces to the Mission Bay neighborhood. By articulating the building mass to be responsive to the site adjacencies and synchronizing the resulting spaces to the creation of public destinations this development prioritizes public space as well as user experience.