The development of the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) at Fort Mason involved the transformation and adaptive reuse of Pier 2 on the historic army base into a thriving nonprofit arts and community center for SFAI
The project is the repurposing of two buildings, a one-story pitched roof warehouse in disrepair, and an abandoned two-story flat roof storehouse located in Rural Future Community, Xikou Town
For a complex research project - the prototyping of a Centre for Culture and Community noa* questions what form flexibility takes, how nature can be embedded in the project and how far the role of the architect goes, in the belief that a project only works when people make it their own.