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Detail, at the fourth story the steel panels begin a "folded" drape and begin to spill off building to create an overhang at ground floor (7th St. at right)

Title:

San Francisco Federal Building

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Creators:

Morphosis (American architectural firm, founded early 1970s); Thom Mayne (American architect, born 1944)

Date:

2003-2007 (creation)

Style/Period:

Deconstructivist; Twenty-first century

Location:

site: San Francisco, California, United States

Location Note:

90 7th Street on the corner of Mission and 7th streets

GPS:

+37.779167-122.411944

Culture:

American

Measurements:

605,000 ft2 (area)

Materials:

precast concrete; galvanized steel; glass; wood' perforated steel panels

Work Types:

buildings; public buildings; government office buildings

Description:

Thom Mayne of Morphosis designed the building using a juxtaposition of gray concrete walls, perforated metal panels, and custom, faceted wood ceilings. The building was designed to be a 'green' building consuming less than half the power of a standard office tower and was the first Federal Building to be certified under LEED criteria (although it only rated silver). It was the first naturally ventilated office building on the west coast since the advent of air conditioning. However the building has been criticized as being dysfunctional for its employees, with inadequate thermal comfort, lighting and acoustics. In addition, in an attempt to promote exercise, a skip stop elevator system was designed that only stops every 3 floors, requiring able-bodied workers to walk up or down to reach their desired floor. This caused most of the workers to use those elevators designed for the disabled which stop at every floor, leading to overcrowding. The design's nonfunctional use of extended, folded metal sun shading at ground level, which in the opinion of some are purely for aesthetic effect, required extensive galvanized steel bracing, and added millions in materials and fabrication costs into the project. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)

Classification:

Architecture and City Planning

Technique:

construction (assembling)

Image Rights:

Vendor ID:

1A1-MAYNE-FBSF-A73

MDID Identifier:

91416

Archivision Set:

Archivision Addition Module Twelve

Collection:

Archivision Module 12

Record created:

June 6, 2018

Last modified:

Sept. 23, 2018

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