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The project area is divided into 3 parts in proportion to the existing residential facade. With reference to the roof height of the neighboring buildings, apartment blocks are designed on both sides with a geometry created by the angles. The middle block has a vertical architecture independent of the existing texture. The residences, which rise as 3 separate blocks, establish a relationship with the environment with the consoles coming out of the façade, as in the existing texture. This newly built project is actually a reinterpretation of the existing texture with a higher density and with respect to the existing buildings as an architectural whole. By designing 5 commercial shops on the ground floor, it is aimed to eliminate the lack of shops in the region.
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San Francisco’s many tech booms and its rare beauty attract people from all parts of the world and place it in the heart of this country’s housing crisis. A large percentage of the city’s land has been limited to single-family-only use since 1978, when the city's residential areas were downzoned to limit growth. These zoning requirements effectively excluded access to people of color and limited means thereby creating redlined elite neighborhoods. In the past 20 - 30 years, broad swaths of middle to low-income San Franciscans have been forced to leave the city due to ever-escalating rents and exorbitant home prices driven by scarcity.
The project increases the existing land use capacity as residential and commercial units with a design that respects the surrounding low-rise building stock.
Efficient land use and the fact that the designed buildings will add architectural value to the region are the biggest factors of sustainability. It is aimed to keep the carbon footprint at a minimum level by using brick in weight ratio as the construction material.
We designed our structure to be sustainable by using a sustainable building element with the use of bricks on the facade. Bricks are the ultimate sustainable material, as they are energy efficient, they last forever, require no maintenance, can be reused and recycled, and reduce your homes carbon footprint, leaving you with the peace of mind that your home contributes to a greener world.
AWARD: World Architecture Award 46th Cycle | SF trinity Apartments/USA selected as WINNER by the votes of Honorary Members and Winners in “Designed” category at 2024, UK
The project is on a very small land (217 square meters) and in an area with 2-storey houses. It is a structure that respects the neighboring buildings in terms of scale and is a project with maximum efficiency. With the mass divided into 3 parts instead of a single mass on the long façade, it repeats the existing house texture and takes its place in the surroundings with a design approach in harmony with them. The building, which rises higher than the surrounding buildings and descends to the floors of the adjacent buildings with its roof slope, also establishes a relationship with the structures around the plot while the density of use on the land increases.
It is a holistic project in terms of ratio and land efficiency.
Istanbul, Nairobi and Kigali based architecture office WALL Corporation was founded by architect Selim Senin in 2010 at Istanbul first. Senin has extended Wall corporation in Kigali at 2017, in Nairobi at 2022 too.He continues to work on various projects in Turkey ,Kenya, Uganda, DRC, Mozambique and Rwanda from Nairobi, Kigali and Istanbul offices. WALL Corporation is the architectural design company which has received more than 75 international architectural design awards from U.S.A, Italy, UK, Russia and India! WALL is a company that can design buildings in any function regardless of scale and structure typology. Besides the design of the building, it contains all the engineering disciplines required for the construction of the building.
