India Basin Neighborhood Plan, San Francisco
Designed as WRT/Solomon ETC, 2006
John Ellis Urban Designer with Daniel Solomon
India Basin is located on the shore between the Bayview District and the Hunters Point Shipyard. The existing fragmented urban fabric is a combination of freestanding public housing of WWII war worker barracks and suburban layouts by Aaron Green in the 1960’s. The masterplan reestablished the regular Bayview street grid and proposed a traditional pattern of residential building typologies that included rowhouses, wealk-up stacked flats, and a few strategically located midrise and highrise towers.
The plan proposes to reconfigure the former public housing sites into a regular street and block pattern that integrates into the historic street layout.
Existing incomplete street grid.
Proposed new street grid restoring the orthoganal pattern and reconnecting with the surrounding context.
New development along the realigned street grid.
Proposed new street and block pattern with a range of residential building types.