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Neat! Some thoughts, in no particular order... Make use of the ocean, and the wind. Don't build a building with no good views of the ocean (like that ugly th
by carapace 4y ago
Neat! Some thoughts, in no particular order...
Make use of the ocean, and the wind. Don't build a building with no good views of the ocean (like that ugly thing[1] opposite the Zoo). Shape it to direct the wind to your wind turbines to generate energy.
Figure out what it's going to do to inland wind patterns.
All of that "land" is sand.
It's faster to get downtown from the East Bay than the Outer Sunset, for both cars and mass transit.
How long until the ocean reaches the building? It's already threatening to destroy the Great Highway.
Can we build a wall of these running North-South from the Zoo to the Golden Gate Park? Then put a roof over the Sunset District? ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man_River%27s_City_project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man_River%27s_City_project ) Back-fill housing into a grid or matrix? Like the "stacks" in that movie, but nice?
We could house all the homeless people in the entire country just by building out the Sunset and Richmond districts. Turn SF into a vast "recycling center" for people? (I know that sounds weird but I haven't come up with a better metaphor yet. "Redemption"? "Rehabilitation"? help me out here?)
To grow enough food and handle the waste we can convert [part of] the Bay into Greenwave-style marine farms. ( https://www.greenwave.org/ https://www.greenwave.org/ )
[1] "The Westerly" @ 3535 Wawona St, San Francisco, CA 94116 https://goo.gl/maps/rREGHXWGy8zCAM7G7 https://goo.gl/maps/rREGHXWGy8zCAM7G7 I'm generally a fan of brutalist architecture but I hate this, it looks hideous to me. I don't like the way it ignores the ocean.