Hunters Point Vision document, 2018 The team, including Tatiana Bilbao Estudio and Studio MLA, assessed the site’s potential, explored various redevelopment scenarios and articulated an evolution of the PG&E Hunters Point property from a fenced-off contaminated site into a viable new district along San Francisco’s southeast waterfront. This document is a resource for the redevelopment of the PG&E Hunters Point Property; its goals drawn from community input, city and regional planning efforts, and existing laws and regulations. Its basic tenets are a socially-responsible and engaged design process, human-centred design and a readiness to adapt. It focuses on equity, affordability, community-serving features and a pedestrian-oriented public realm. Release of the document to the community was disrupted by PG&E’s 2018 bankruptcy.
Hunters Point Substation Modernisation, start summer 2022
The substation project is an opportunity to redefine how PG&E delivers vital infrastructure to communities. The new facility had to meet its core program while achieving a high degree of performance, design and cohesion in the urban fabric. The most critical piece of work we did was in the project’s siting. Our team worked with land use attorneys at Sheppard Mullin to advocate for decommissioning the existing station on the waterfront parcel and the building of a new station. The old station would be removed once the new station was operational, and in turn the shoreline parcel would be freed up for redevelopment. The new station, designed by Tatiana Bilbao Estudio with TEF Architecture, is adjacent to the old one, but located on higher ground. Older equipment is replaced with a modern environmentally friendly and efficient system. The new zero-net energy substation has a public plaza and various sustainable features including photovoltaic panels, a façade optimised to capture the prevailing wind to provide for passive cooling, and the elimination of SF-6 gas from the GIS high voltage electrical equipment. 6 Stakeholder engagement has been a central part of the design process. Community meetings and outreach between 2017 and 2019 solicited feedback, directly informing the design of the station and the integration of a public plaza.
Tatiana Bilbao Estudio and TEF
Tatiana Bilbao Estudio and Mia Lehrer Green
The proposed, modernised Hunters Point substation
Hunters Point vision document: conceptual massing
6 SF6 or sulfur hexafluoride is one of the 'most potent greenhouse gases with a global warming potential 23,500 times greater than that of CO2'. https://www.eaton.com/gb/en-gb/markets/utilities/tomorrowsgrid/air- insulated-switchgear-sf6-free-eaton.html
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