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Owner: BRIDGE Housing Corporation
Date Completed: March 2010
Ironhorse at Central Station, Oakland, California
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Program: A four-story, 153,395-square-foot building with 99 apartments for families earning up to 50 percent of median income. Amenities include a soundproofed music room, a bike storage room, and community garden plots. The project is part of the mixed-use development Central Station, which integrates 29 acres of unused industrial land into residential West Oakland.
Design concept and solution: David Baker + Partners aimed to build a communal, walkable green development that would feel connected with Central Station's market-rate housing. The architects created pedestrian mews between Ironhorse and the nearby Pacific Cannery Lofts and Zephyr Gate Townhomes; they also added pocket parks and greenscaping. Residents enter through an open-air court and ascend to a podium-level courtyard defined by two C-shaped building masses, which house the units. Each unit has a private outdoor deck or patio. Sustainability features include solar-domestic hot water, photo-voltaic arrays that supply some electricity for the common areas, two green roofs, vegetated swales that collect storm water, and outdoor furniture made from recycled-material composite lumber.
Total construction cost: $41.4 million
Architect:
David Baker + Partners
461 Second Street, Loft c127
San Francisco, CA 94107
415-896-6700
fax 415-896-6103
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