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Veterans Commons Supportive Housing
Veterans Commons Supportive Housing
San Francisco, CA, United States
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Veterans Commons Supportive Housing
San Francisco, CA, United States
This project makes significant progress toward reducing chronic homelessness among veterans. It creates a supportive housing community for 75 veterans with disabilities. The chronically homeless veterans housed in the building have access to wrap-around public and private services including on site case management, mental health counseling, geriatric, drug dependency and employment programs.
The building was built as a juvenile detention facility but most recently used as storage and a temporary winter shelter. The City of San Francisco declared it surplus and made it available for adaptive reuse in a developer competition. The change of use to housing triggered complete structural and systems upgrades and new circulation and fire life safety code upgrades, all within a project that also earned historic preservation tax credits.
The design capitalizes on the narrow building floor plate to create light filled corridors and generous studio units that are all accessible or adaptable. A new accessible elevator bank added beyond the building envelope buttresses the building against seismic forces. Structural strengthening of the fire stairs at the ends of the building completes the lateral system without infringing on usable space.
The lobby houses mailboxes and connects the community room and services suite. A porch outside the community room was created by building a storefront inside the historic rear wall, accomplishing disabled accessibility and providing an intermediate sheltered zone between the interior and an outdoor patio.
The building was built as a juvenile detention facility but most recently used as storage and a temporary winter shelter. The City of San Francisco declared it surplus and made it available for adaptive reuse in a developer competition. The change of use to housing triggered complete structural and systems upgrades and new circulation and fire life safety code upgrades, all within a project that also earned historic preservation tax credits.
The design capitalizes on the narrow building floor plate to create light filled corridors and generous studio units that are all accessible or adaptable. A new accessible elevator bank added beyond the building envelope buttresses the building against seismic forces. Structural strengthening of the fire stairs at the ends of the building completes the lateral system without infringing on usable space.
The lobby houses mailboxes and connects the community room and services suite. A porch outside the community room was created by building a storefront inside the historic rear wall, accomplishing disabled accessibility and providing an intermediate sheltered zone between the interior and an outdoor patio.
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