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IN SAN FRANCISCO'S South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood, where the average price of a home is $858,000, innovative design joined creative financing to speed production of a 145-unit permanent housing complex for the formerly unhoused. DBA met with the local organization SOMA Pilipinas, which off...

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Published in:Architectural Record 2022-10, Vol.210 (10), p.98-102
Main Author: Jacobson, Clare
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Affordable housing
Architects
Architecture
Bamboo
Cultural heritage
Design
Homeless people
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Summary:IN SAN FRANCISCO'S South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood, where the average price of a home is $858,000, innovative design joined creative financing to speed production of a 145-unit permanent housing complex for the formerly unhoused. DBA met with the local organization SOMA Pilipinas, which offered the architects design inspiration. [...]Tahanan (Tagalog for "home") abstracts Filipino culture with patterns of bamboo and handwoven mats cast into its concrete base. [...]Tahanan's development cost came in at $385,000 per unit, well below the target.
ISSN:0003-858X
2470-1513