Building at zsfg for review and comment. Good afternoon, department staff. The project for you is a excuse me. Ill need to recuse myself for this item. I move that you be recused. Second. I need to stay in the last year i had a financial relationship with arg which is a consultant on this project which is why. Very good on the motion to r commissioner hyland . That motion passes unanimously. The project for you is a review and comment on the ucsf research and Academic Building at the Zuckerberg San Francisco general hospital. Seeking concurrence on the project design relative to mitigation that was adopted as part of the Environmental Impact report for the project. The project includes demolition of a parking lot. Its a fivestory research facility. Comprising a mix of dry laboratory space, wet labs and desk top research. The project would retain some of the historic elements on the site, including fence, guardhouse and two gate pillars. As you see in the packet we provided, we provided analysis by the consultant. Ill invite the architect up to present the project it you. Good afternoon, commissioners. Its a pleasure to be here and present this very important project we think for ourselves, our clients and certainly for the city and county of san francisco. As rich mentioned, the project is a Research Building and it is intended to serve the staff and research that is already occurring on campus. People may not realize, but sf general and ucsf have a partnership going back approximately 140 years, so its a longstanding relationship and important part of the success of the hospital. Should note that sf general is important to us because in addition to serving many of the underserved communities in our city, they are also a trauma one facility, which includes a requirement for research. And theyre the only Trauma One Center between stanford and sacramento. So we serve a large area. As mentioned, one of the things we started with was looking to adhere to the mitigation measures, with which included 15 guidelines. As part of that, we thought it was important to conduct our own analysis and understanding of the campus and its architecture to make sure that what we were designing was very much in compatible to the campus and its fabric. What you see in front of you are the Historic Structures within the campus. Were looking, 23rd street on the bottom. And mixed in with the Historic Structures, are newer structures. The mainly hospital opened 2016 and building 5, a structure from the 70s. The site for the project is in the southeast corner. As you can see, its where there is currently a surface parking lot. So were not touching any existing Historic Structures. The project includes a roadway project which is to complete the vehicular circulation as part of removing the parking lot. And as part of the project, we have loading on the east side along vermont street. And a proposed entrance as part of the requirements on the northwest corner of the building. Ill go into that in a bit more. So, along the southern edge of the site, is an existing series, a gate with brick and iron fencing, as well as a gatehouse up against the west side. These will be retained. And then there is an existing historic fountain that is in the middle of the parking lot. Remnants of a prior building. That will be relocated somewhere to be determined, on the campus. As part of the analysis, we really wanted to understand the evolution of the campus, its pattern of building, pattern of entry space. But over time, as hospital evolved to meet the needs of current hospital and health care, youll see that very large buildings were built and the campus really became access from this internal street. Most of the buildings have actually sort of turned their entries into this now. That is the primary dressing. Our project here is in the bottom right, the southeast corn other of the plan. So the other things that i think are quite striking about the campus, first of all, the strong eastwest graining of the campus. We have the single wards as well as the building five which all have the strong eastwest graining. Fortunately, the site has a similar orientation, so it makes it natural for the building to reflect that graining. The other thing to note about the campus, its general rise in scale. It starts at the neighborhood scale of two stories at the perimeter. There is the building nine which is the nurses building. It is three stories, rises to five for buildings 30 and 40 and then ultimately up to buildings 25 and 5, which are 140 feet. The other thing we studied carefully was the elevations of the buildings. Theyre quite interesting when you look carefully at them. They are theyre characterized by being very expressive of function, which is something you dont necessarily see of buildings of this type and era. You see repetitive windows, the ward itself, which is densely spaced. You see the zone to the right there, which is exam rooms, so greater privacy, larger rooms, more spread out. And then on either end, you can barely see in yellow, are special bays that were collective spaces, waiting rooms, things like that. And each of these zones separated by a solid band of brick. And then all tied together with the horizontal bands noted by the red lines. Building nine has the same pattern, but since it was a dormitory for nurses, the spacing windows are more spread out, reflecting larger rooms. And you also have the some expression of the doubleloaded corridors, the common areas, on the elevation as well. [please stand by] this starts Group Windows into stacks of two stories. So we brought that same coursing over to the proposed project. Those two stories then have pilasters for brick it keeps jumping around here and woven with spandrads. The materials were proposing are meant to be sympathetic with the campus. We have a materials pallett if you would like to see it. Terra cotta to reflect the brick. We have two kinds, the vertical striaded and helps to deepen the tonality of it. The windows are composed of glass and then we have solid metal panels to provide a sense of depth in elevations which is very important. These elements are what bring richness to the campus. The one on the right is from building nine and reflects the stairway in building 9. For our western portion where we place the townhall communal space, were use using buff cr terra cotta to call out the special part of the building. This is both, i think, appropriate for the architecture but important for the overall campus but this now demarks the main entrance into the campus. The hardest time, ill be honest, with the requirement for an entry on the south side of the building. This is for researchers and staff, so the general public is not coming in or out of this building. Secondly, very pragmatically, the campus has a real concern with security. There have been issues on campus. Theres a population that creates issues on the campus and so for security reasons, theres a desire to have the campus entry face north. So what we did, as you can see, we had the lobby run all the way from north to south so that it is a single glass volume all the way at the western end of the building. And so when youre approaching the building from on campus, looking southward here, you can see very clearly where the entry is denoted with the signage. Theres a public element such as the stair to open up the interior of the building and thing lobby is the entire ground floor on the bottom right. As you move around the building looking here directly from the west, and then ultimately, as you approach it, as the public would have the south, you see that lobby and you are its very clear where the entry to the building is. Although, the doors themselves are from the north and that was our approach. That was a brief overview and we spent a great deal of time, the team spent time developing this project and were happy to answer questions. With me here, i should mention, is ken humphrey, our design build partners and ellen owens from ucsf, our clients. Thank you. I would like to take Public Comment. Anyone who would like to make Public Comment at this time . Good afternoon. I want to make a pick remark. You said this was newton thorpe. He died of a heart attack in 1981989 checking out hospitals. This was opened years later. There were several people that were architects and then there was john gellenhoward, john reed, jr. Are consulting architects and so it may be that they designed the building. So i would like you all to send somebody into the archives to find out actually who designed these buildings because dear old mr. Thorpe passed away before they were ever finished. Thank you. Anyone else like to make a Public Comment at this time . Closing Public Comment and bringing it back to the commission, anybody . Commissioner perlman . I would first like to ask, how do we follow up on mr. Hasses comments . Is that something the staff should do . We can certainly look into it. Theres obviously a number of projects that have occurred on the campus, so maybe as we explore future review, we can flush it out as a question. It would be good to get the record straight, because i know from the next project of the civic center, mr. Hasse has taken us to task about that. I wanted to comment about this project. I think we had looked at this at the arc quite awhile ago, and this has come quite a long, long way from the kind of massing studmassingstudy we were presend i think this is a nice building. The whole thing was odd to me because theres a fence and a gate, so the idea of having a South Entrance doesnt make any sense. I understand it came from the original building on that site, which entered through that center point, but that building has been gone for a long time and it surprised me that in the text of the report for the historic district, that that would even become something of significance at all. So i dont see the i mean, i think your response is quite appropriate and i believe that was the only mitigation factor that wasnt met in the entire list of character features that had to be related. To i didnt see that as any particular issue. The only design issue i had with the building, that i didnt understand, were the kind of angled elements on the is that the west facade, i believe . The end elevation of all of the other Historic Buildings are quite simple, symmetrical and this feels jumbled because there are so many kinds of arctic coor ticulations. The withi western end is somg we spent a great deal of time thinking about. The building is much wider than existing structures. Thats the nature of the modern buildings. So we did several things could you click back for the view thats looking southeast, i think . One more. That sort of shows it more. Youll notice the setback in the facade, that was to reduce the setback. That was to introduce two materials on to that narrower face and first to focus on the Actual Community room within the programme. The portion thats behind this serated panels, theres a certainly amount of daylight. It sets off and contrasts two different parts to it while still giving us the able to allow light to come into the meeting rooms. One thing you may not be able to answer is a department question. Given how much focus theres been of the design of this particular building, im wondering how building 25 ever managed to get through. It must have been before my time but it seems so out of character given the time of study that, you know, that youve done and relating this so completely to the kind of character of the existing building. Noi would endorse the projects s designed. Thank you so much for pulling it together and bringing it in. I wonder if we could take a look at that, thank you. You want us to come up . It might be pretty heavy. Yes. I will say these are not our final selections. Were going through our final process but we pulled it together quickly so you get a sense of the materialality. Out. Were looking for something that matches with brick. That glass has a tints to meet todays energy codes to provide comfort on the inside. But we want to find a glass that says neutral as possible in the colouration. This one particularly is green right now. And then, the metal Panel Related to try to find a dark colour on the kind of dark crossbond with the brick. This one is highly serrated so it would create a lot of shadows. The texture will change and shift. I appreciate the activeness of the facade for something quite regular and you have to draw your quite up through to notice the slight shifting of the vertical, but you think that also gives it this kind of theres a lot of activity in the walls of those buildings and i think this is simpler but more complex, simpler in the material but more complex in the actual elevational character. Thank you. I know this is a nightmare to haul this around so thank you. Any other comments from the commission. I had one comment, just wanted to confirm, so arj. Skidmore did the analysis and can you do through the analysis about meeting the guidelines . Sure. There was no motion. So if we refer back to the kind of last page in your packet, to the memo from september third. Basically, as part of the Environmental Impact report, we basically since we didnt have a project design, we created a series of parameters by which they could design the project to ensure it would be compatible and put an additional check to ask for a historian to ensure the design was compatible. So they went through the guidelines on pages 3 through 6 of the report, going through the siding, the height and scale and materials and cladding, windows, and then site features to ensure that the project design kind of corlated. Corcorrelated. It was the street frontage . Correct. The project met compatibility. So the project is the latest version after the latest adjustments by staff upon recommendation from the consultants. Thank you. I understand theres no motion. Its a review. Rate. Right. Right. Thank you very much and thank you for the presentation. It was very good. Commissioners, that places us on item 1000 commissioner. This is an informational presentation. Good afternoon. Im Planning Department staff and excited to be here before you to present an update on the civic Centre Public realm plan, the longterm vision for the streets, gateways. I want to introduce some members of my project team that are here today seated behind me beginning with nick perry, who is plan manager and also manager of city design group, our prime consultant and owen kennerlly from architecture and planning, some of which all be hearing about today. So, we know that Civic Centers is one of the most Public Places in san francisco. Its the heart of our City Government and a center of arts and culture. Its public realm is the fabric which holds together this beautiful district and framework in which were sitting now. We know having a public realm is important to every neighborhood and takes on special importance given the special role the civic centre plays from protests to celebrations to everyday life. Its where we all come together. But we know that public space and civic center faces many challenges and, in fact, some of our citys greatest social problems are most visible in these spaces but its a place of amazing opportunity which is why were here today doing the jobs we love. We see how improvements like the civil center playgrounds are making this a more welcoming space to spend time, but theres more work to do. Over the years, there have been many plans for improving the civic center but the primary focus was retrofitting the public buildings while improvements have somewhat lagged behind. The latest plan for the public realm is now over 20 years old, so it was time for us to dust off the old plans and create a commutebuilt holistic vision moving forward. Since the last plan was created, the last plan has changed and has grown as an arts and cultural district and a lot of new residences in the pipeline or on the ground, so theres going to be greater demand on high quality, public realm, which right now serves as one of the few large parks for adjacent neighborhoods, such as the tenderloin. The city is taking a coordinated approach. This is Civic Center Commons by the Workforce Development and its bringing more activity and improved stewardship to the public spaces today and then the Civic Center Public Realm plan is creating a future. Theres creating a strategy for managing Civic Centers public spaces now and into the future. And so, here are some photos of what the civic Industry Initiative has put on the ground. Im sure you all have been to some, but really city agencies are working together to find Civic Centers inviting in the near term. This is the buyright crick buys connectioskwhich came before yo. Were talking about the public realm plan building off all of the lessons from the initiative creating a unified vision to Civic Centers public spaces. The Planning Department is leading a team made up of eight core city agencies and weve been joined by an excellent Consultant Team and ten amazing consultants. Theres a centre around city hall and the plans main focus are the three public spaces. The plan is considering street design. We are still working with mta to understand what modeling implications have from a technical point of view. So were working on that. And also, improvements in the district and street design has a focus on grove street. In looking at the timeline, its been quite a lengthy planning process. After two years of study and community engagement, our team is finalizing conceptual design of the public spaces, so were wrapping that up and the planning process. Outreach has taken many forms, five neighborhoods hinge off of the Civic Center Area and we knew we had to have a robust Engagement Process and its included three community workshops,