Hunters View, San Francisco CA
Designed initially as Daniel Solomon Design Partners, built as Mithun Solomon
John Ellis Urban Designer with Daniel Solomon, Anne Torney, Ganesh Ramachandran
Hunters View was one of San Francisco’s most distressed public housing projects. Isolated freestanding buildings dating from WWII segregated the residents from the rest of the city. The masterplan reconfigured the site to create a network of streets and small blocks that connected with the surrounding neighborhood and to orient views towards Downtown. Urban design guidelines defined a new pattern with buildings that fronted the streets to create a mixed-income traditional neighborhood. Daniel Solomon Design Partners designed the master plan and the architecture for Block 4, while the remaining blocks were designed by others.
The new street and block pattern orients the views towards Downtown and the Bay. The block pattern returns to a more traditional, urban pattern in contrast to the adjoining suburban pattern from the 1960's.
Hunters View 2023 showing Phases 1-3. The former footprints of the previous public housing is to the right.
Design guidelines for building configuration on a steeply sloping site.
Hierarchy of open spaces within the site.
The previous condition with public housing buildings dating from WWII that are unrelated to any street pattern.
New affordable housing fronting streets that are oriented towards Downtown San Francisco.