Terra cotta where it turns the corner so thats the detail we used here and it gives the terra cotta facade a sense of depth that relates to the depth of the masonry building in the district. And so this give us a sense of looking down the street and o how the facade relates in massing with relation to his neighbors and the terra cotta comes down into the base of the building to over a sunscreen there. The masonry steps back from the main facade as i mentioned before. You can see that in plan here where we actually instituted a structural change and that allows us to do a better job of manic the pg e bulb on that location. I forget to mention thats how you get back to the court yard thats a sense of light. You can see the rendering of that the green space that officer a lot of spaces. Its quite beautiful to look at above it harvests the water. And so then on the third level theres an entry from dui boom and that inlightens the whole area. So with that im open to any questions. We have o
Mravn Vice President staff. This would be quiet a historic day for the japan community. Were here to get the strategy and the adoption of the japan statement passed. First, well hear from shelly to introduce the item around the historic based statement good morning commissioners shelly from the preservation staff. Im presenting ignore o for the recommendation the japan historic statement. This is the author with the contributions from our Historic Preservation page and Department Staff. Numerous members of the japan Town Community also duo donated their time. This was in plan for four years ago. And specifically its now created a framework with our japan heritage and stability strategy. The boundaries of the study area are designed for the h f project area and this the the California North and the golf street to the east and stooern to the west. This area was and is considered to be japan town in San Francisco. The time periods described that troilt the cultural Historic Development in
Within the regular body of it next to it to get a Good Relationship to the buildings next to it. We changed the plan of the building to create a recess at the end entrance so the piece that responds to the context pushes forward and the facade is part of the more contemporary part of the building pushes back. So another comment had to do with gifk more expression to the context so you can see weve worked on increasing the visible height and it will play with the light. Weve matched that material at the top of the base condition to their book ends the main facade. You can see the details at the bottom of the screen. This relates to the altercational buildings next door. In the same way our base condition are banned at the top. We looked at a notion that the commissioners raised that the elements open the facade the terra cotta elements seemed vertical so if theres a way to bring up the horizontal elements between the buildings that would help. So we introduced our terra cotta i guess th
Corner so thats the detail we used here and it gives the terra cotta facade a sense of depth that relates to the depth of the masonry building in the district. And so this give us a sense of looking down the street and o how the facade relates in massing with relation to his neighbors and the terra cotta comes down into the base of the building to over a sunscreen there. The masonry steps back from the main facade as i mentioned before. You can see that in plan here where we actually instituted a structural change and that allows us to do a better job of manic the pg e bulb on that location. I forget to mention thats how you get back to the court yard thats a sense of light. You can see the rendering of that the green space that officer a lot of spaces. Its quite beautiful to look at above it harvests the water. And so then on the third level theres an entry from dui boom and that inlightens the whole area. So with that im open to any questions. We have other materials if need be thank
Context so you can see weve worked on increasing the visible height and it will play with the light. Weve matched that material at the top of the base condition to their book ends the main facade. You can see the details at the bottom of the screen. This relates to the altercational buildings next door. In the same way our base condition are banned at the top. We looked at a notion that the commissioners raised that the elements open the facade the terra cotta elements seemed vertical so if theres a way to bring up the horizontal elements between the buildings that would help. So we introduced our terra cotta i guess theyre called in front of the windows as a way to carry the material around the windows and that results in a perception of the overall facades of having a design comparable with the adjacent buildings. Another issue that was brought up was that the terra cotta the way it was detailed looked flat because it met metals at the correspondence so we use is the terra cotta wher