Taking a cue from natural forms like the pinecone and succulent plants, Twisting Tower seeks to maximize exposure to sunlight in a San Francisco residential tower. Rather than taking a traditional rectilinear form, each floorplate is a modified cruciform that adds additional surface area for sunlight and fresh air to enter the interior. Borrowing from the structure of trees, the cantilevered floor levels are supported by a novel interior shell of concrete that acts as a "trunk."
Sited at the edge of the Financial District and bordering on the more residential neighborhood of Hayes Valley, Twisting Tower also seeks to marry the new ideal of the San Francisco high rise with its historical residential past at the interface of these two distinctly different neighborhoods. Each floor of the tower is offset from the next other by a 30-degree rotation, creating a scaffolding of greenspace that reinterprets the lateral indoor-outdoor space of the suburbs in a newly vertical, urban way.
The base of the tower is informed by its proximity to San Francisco's historic Jazz District, providing a public stage and seating for local performances, as well as a variety of rotating art galleries and food spaces to support the cultural fabric of San Francisco and its small businesses and pop-up culture. The public base of the building is topped by a publicly accessible outdoor greenspace, mimicking the residential access to greenspace within an urban environment.
Sited at the edge of the Financial District and bordering on the more residential neighborhood of Hayes Valley, Twisting Tower also seeks to marry the new ideal of the San Francisco high rise with its historical residential past at the interface of these two distinctly different neighborhoods. Each floor of the tower is offset from the next other by a 30-degree rotation, creating a scaffolding of greenspace that reinterprets the lateral indoor-outdoor space of the suburbs in a newly vertical, urban way.
The base of the tower is informed by its proximity to San Francisco's historic Jazz District, providing a public stage and seating for local performances, as well as a variety of rotating art galleries and food spaces to support the cultural fabric of San Francisco and its small businesses and pop-up culture. The public base of the building is topped by a publicly accessible outdoor greenspace, mimicking the residential access to greenspace within an urban environment.