Comments on: Ironhorse: Sustainably-Built Affordable Housing in SF

By: scottpro

scottpro — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 22:28:39 +0000

Looking at this I can’t help but feel like this is going to be Pruitt-Igoe all over again. I hope that I’m wrong, but it just seems like another architect’s pipe dream to “design” social change.

By: dbarchitect

dbarchitect — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:23:02 +0000

The green roof areas have been installed but some of them haven’t filled out yet so they look brown in the photo. There is more information, including live readouts from the 130 KW solar electric collection system, at http://www.dbarchitect.com/IronhorseCentralStation.

By: jeanX

jeanX — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:10:02 +0000

In a certain neighborhood of sf, there are ‘projects’, which resemble every other house on the block.These are 2 story row-houses.Of course, not all the projects are as nice as these.The East Coast has stopped building 3-story projects,
believing that 2-story projects make better neighborhoods.This a massive redevelopment in Oakland.It is not worth reviewing,
save to condemn.

By: CP

CP — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:44:55 +0000

Oh — I see that Ariel lives in the West Bay. It’s all clear to me then; she’s just trying to claim some of Oakland’s awesome for her own city.

By: CP

CP — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:13:04 +0000

Nice article, but: Why do you say it’s “in SF” when it’s in Oakland? As a proud resident of the East Bay, I must protest.

I’d accept “Bay Area” or even “SF Bay Area,” but it’s unclear whether either would be superior to the more precise “Oakland”.

Not a subdivision or suburb of SF, but its very own urb. 12 miles away. Better in some ways, worse in others, but for better or worse, the actual location of Central Station and the Ironhorse development.

By: Future Schema

Future Schema — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:15:11 +0000

Will the vegetated roofs come in the first phase or the later phases of the development? The picture doesn’t really show a vegetated area, but the design looks fresh.

BTW, please correct the title – Oakland is NOT San Francisco. It may be a lot of things (good, bad or indifferent) but it is not San Francisco.