OMA New York associate Jason Lengthy joins Architectural File’s DESIGN:ED podcast to debate the agency’s strategy to adaptive reuse and the design of 730 Stanyan, an reasonably priced housing venture in San Francisco’s historic Haight-Ashbury district.
“In the case of adaptive reuse, one of many issues we regularly attempt to do is keep away from locking issues in an excessive amount of. That you must create a sure degree of specificity within the design and in what you are proposing. However on the identical time, you wish to be acutely aware that it’s going to must be tailored once more. Within the case of Put up Houston, that concerned not basically altering the bones of the bulding, however attempting to pierce it with a collection of atriums to let gentle in and provides it a type of coherence that it lacked in any other case.”
– Jason Lengthy
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