Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, Parcel B Studies
San Francisco
Designed as WRT/Solomon ETC with IBI Group, 2007 and as Mithun Solomon 2013
John Ellis Urban Designer with Daniel Solomon, Christopher Pizzi, Mohammad Momin
Hunters Point Naval Shipyard was established during WWII and remained as a naval base until its closure in 1994.
Lennar Urban hired WRT/Solomon E.T.C. with IBI Group to masterplan Parcel B, the next phase of development after the hilltop to accommodate 2,230 dwellings and a retail street. The plan established a street and block pattern and a range of building types including rowhouses, stacked flats and highrise towers. Street types recalled San Francisco prototypes such as South Park and Dolores Street in the Mission, while building types included midblock lanes lined with rowhouses.
A 2013 study focused on a reduced site exploring a range of building typologies to accommodate 1,272 units.
Because the site once contained radioactive materials and the data on remediation was falsified by a subcontractor in 2015, the project is on hold until this gets resolved.
Parcel B located on the flat land north of the hilltop creates a dense urban pattern of streets and blocks with a range of housing typologies.
Capacity study plan showing a range of building typologies from townhouses, stacked flats to highrise towers.
Axonometric view of the proposed development.
Hunters Point Shipyard with Hunters View and Allice Griffith sites as part of the transformation of San Francisco's Southeast Waterfront district.