The University of California SF Campus is set on Mount Sutro west of downtown San Francisco, and commands an incredible view of the city, but the campus has very little room to grow beyond its hodgepodge of fifties and sixties towers due to the steep hillside. The newly completed Institute for Regeneration Medicine (dubbed the Dolby Building) is a striking example of how amazing design can result from difficult circumstances. The sloped property on the edge of the campus required a technically and aesthetically unique approach that Rafael Viñoly Architects came up with - they placed a green roofed tower horizontally and winded it with the contour of the hill on unique point load footings.

































