The San Francisco Headquarters for Uber Technologies, located in the heart of Mission Bay, is comprised of one 6 story structure and one 11 story structure connected by transparent bridges spanning Pierpoint Lane. Both buildings feature state-of-the-art motorized, “breathing” facades which open to full height atriums blurring the lines between interior and exterior space. Included in the program are offices, cafes, childcare, and ground floor retail. QA collaborated with SHoP Architects NYC on core & shell architecture. Interior design by RMW.
project information
Uber World Headquarters
Address:
3rd Street,
Mission Bay, San Francisco, CA
Project Number:
15101 & 1515
Square Footage:
480,000 sf
Completion Date:
2015-2019
Project Type(s):
Commercial
Residential
Hospitality
Public
Wellness
Award(s) Won:
Residential
Hospitality
Public
Wellness
LEED Status:
USGBC LEED-CI & USGBC LEED-NC Platinum Certifications Pending Review
Residential
Hospitality
Public
Wellness
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Internal Project Information
Role:
Architect of Record / Executive Architect
Services / Scope:
Planning & Entitlements, Interiors Coordination through CA, Core & Shell Schematic Design through Construction Observation
LEED Rating:
USGBC LEED-CI & USGBC LEED-NC Platinum Certifications Pending Review
Project Delivery Method:
Fast Track Entitlements, Design-Build | Design-Bid-Build Systems | Negotiated Bid General Construction Contract
Construction Type:
Type IA, OCII Development, Mixed Use, Commercial
Software Used:
Autodesk Revit 2016, BIM 360 Glue, Rhino, Bluebeam, 3D Studio Max, Navisworks
Project Cost Information
Projected Cost:
$500 Million
Design Fees:
$ Example
Final Cost:
$ Example
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$/sf
Insurance Information
Insurance limit requirements per contract:
Project excess coverage required?
Yes
No
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Internal Project Description:
QA is presently engaged in coordinating the interior Tenant Improvements design and the primary interior buildings core elements within each independent tower. The specific mixed-use amenities program for the interior design includes multi-purpose spaces, assembly flex-space areas, child care facilities, ground level retail, penthouse suite(s) and a sky-lit open theater below the operable roof. Interior common areas designs for general office functions are as divers as the unique floor plates that vary on ever floor of each tower.
Each of the two buildings feature vertically organized "commons" spaces providing for circulation and visual connection between office spaces and casual space placing activities and building program to the exterior for outside observes. The geometry and materiality within each building is calibrated to introduce modulated light and shadow creating dynamic spaces visible through transparent glass facades. The facades further feature operable windows and panels choreographed by each building's BMS system to open and close in response to climatic needs within. Software being used for this project includes Revit, Rhino, BIM 360 Glue and Navisworks.
The project is primarily allocated as office space, including open office areas for desks, amenities, and multi-purpose spaces. Additionally, city-serving retail spaces are included in each building at the ground level and a child care center, outdoor spaces and public-private landscape areas are designed within the lower levels.
Each of the two buildings feature vertically organized "commons" spaces providing for circulation and visual connection between office spaces and casual space, putting activities and building program to the exterior on display for outside observers. The geometry and materiality within each building is calibrated to introduce, direct and modulate light and shadow, creating dynamic spaces visible through the transparent glass facades. The facades further feature operable windows and panels choreographed by each building's BMS system to open and close in response to climatic needs within.
Design Challenges & Innovations:
Complex permitting: QA provided coordination of multiple site permit addenda across multiple sites, including bridges connecting 2 buildings on 2 separate parcels across a third open space parcel. This involved coordination of consultants and working closely with the permit expediter to align permit submittal scheduling with the demands of a tight construction schedule.
Planning / OCII entitlements: QA worked closely with the design architect to ensure the project met the OCII (Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure) Mission Bay development plan requirements and goals. This included submissions for review at SD, DD, and CD design phases and engagement with OCII to review and address priorities, and integration of requirements with client requirements and goals.
Design challenges: The Uber project consists of 2 high-rise buildings on separate parcels, and 2 open space parcels. The main design features are a 6 and 12 story atrium, creating a double façade system and an innovative naturally ventilated/ non-conditioned circulation and activity space up both buildings, and 2 glass enclosed bridges spanning over the Pierpont Lane open space parcel. The challenges included meeting atrium code requirements and coordination and detailing of a complex double façade. This required engaging the building and fire departments to ensure the project met mechanical and life safety code requirements. Specifically, pre-application meetings with the city were required to obtain approval for the mechanical/ non-conditioned space approach and the glass atrium wall rating approach (sprinklers at glass), as well as bridge fire rating and separation requirements. Further design challenges included the bridge / building interface, which required close coordination with the design architect, façade design build contractor, and structural engineer, as well as the façade, waterproofing, and MEP consultants to ensure that seismic movement, wind load, mechanical systems, fire rating enclosure, weather enclosure, and design requirements were met.
Other Notes & Reference
Mission Rock Block F, Mission Rock Building F
Transbay Block 4
P70 Building 12
P70A
Designed by Fred
*Project completed by senior members of responsible charge while at a previous firm.
Exclusive Luxury Beach Club
AE7
Jeff Wetzel, Principal
jeff.wetzel@ae-7.com
Client Values:
Campus Future Reorganization Strategies
Facilities Migration Phasing and Implementation
Workplace Analysis &
Cecilia has responsible charge and design responsibility for tthis project while at Backen, Arrigoni, & Ross (BAR Architects)
Essential Facility
Public Agency
Historic Building
Apartments: 212 Units
Serviced Apartments: 114 Units
Townhouses: 22 Units
Office Building: 12 Stories
Podium Retail & F&B: 74,000 sf
Parking Structure: 12 Stories
Podium & Block Retail: 2 Levels
Municipal Open Space: 2 Parks
Podium Parking: 3 Levels
Multiblock Urban Campus
Hernan Alonso Diaz - NOT QA WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sports Facility
Owner: Michael Myers - 415 235-3650
Owner: Jack Scott - 701 869 2448
415 Natoma
Part of larger contract with SMUD from 2001 - 2007
Tool Issue Building Renovation & Seismic Retrofit - Part of larger SMUD contract that went from 2001 - 2007
Client Values:
The "Office of the Future" Implementation
Flexible Freestanding Desking Solutions
"Touchdown" Hotelling & Ergonomics Standards
Alistair Shearer
Principal | Project Manager
The Rockridge Group
alistair@rockridgegroup.com
AE7QA project
Exclusive Luxury Yacht Club
Client Values:
Alternative Workplace Strategies Program
Management Group Integration Imperatives
Collaborative & Concentrative Diversity Solutions
Ralph O'Rear,
Former Director of Facilities
Industrial Light + Magic (ILM)
415 209 2000
Registered California Historic Building
Essential Services Facility
Joseph Powell
Principal Architect, Headquarters Renovation
Facilities Management, SMUD
916 732 6761
joseph.powell@smud.org
Mr. David Gould
Principal
David Gould Associates
416 Donal Drive, Moraga, CA
415 990 0125
david.davidgouldassociates@yahoo.com
Owner's Rep
Registered California Historic Building
PUC (Public Utility Commission) Regulatory Requirements, Federal Regulatory Requirements (FRC, NRF)
Public Utility Client, Highly Confidential and Complex Project, LEED Gold Certified
Al Tayer House - Sayeed Al Tayer is a close friend of His Royal Highness Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and was gifted the property
Registered California Historic Building
Essential Services Facility
Glen Shuder, AIA - Facilities Executive
Doug Norwood - Project Director
Robert Labbe - Project Manager
Jim Jurkovich - Project Manager
Contact Number: 916-732-6623
Mixed Use Development - Retail, Hotel and Residential
100 Condos, 40 Leased Apartments, 120 Hotel Rooms, 45 Serviced Apartmentws
QA provided Interior Architecture services for AOR, AE7
Jeff Wetzel, Principal
jeff.wetzel@ae-7.com
QA provided full Interior Architecture and Design Services for Architect of Record,
We did renders only
Q House, Lovell House, Quezada's old house
Now owned by Al Grumet and Sonia Lee (testimonial from Sonia)
Meydan, AE7QA
We did masterplan and some contemporary homes
Jeff Wetzel, Prinicpal
jeff.wetzel@ae-7.com
Shanghai General Hospital
Never built?
AE7QA project
Tianyaoqiao Road, Xuhui District
Shanghai, Shangai, C200232 China
+86-2154121132
Never built?
MId Rise Office Buildings: 6
Low Rise Office Buildings: 8
Underground Parking: 1 Level
Retail - Podium + Underground: 2 Levels
Podium Block: 140,000 sf
28,966 sf site
1639, 1643, and 1649 9th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90404
SJSM
Cecilia's cousin, Florencia Pita did this while working with her husband Hernan Diaz Alonso
Zoning: P - Public
First Floor: 17,477 sf
First Floor Courtyard: 2,098 sf
Second Floor: 28,140 sf
Third Floor: 15,966 sf
Third Floor Roof Deck: 10,869 sf
Total Project Area: 74,520 sf
ILM, Industiral Light + Magic, George Lucas, LucasArts, Presido, Lucas Learning
Same clients as 9th Street in Santa Monica and the Maui projects
Simon Residence
Homewood Residence, Q Tahoe, Owned by Quezadas
Al Wasl Towers
('The Connection' Towers in Arabic)
QA provided full Interior Architecture and Design Services for Architect of Record, AE7.
Jeff Wetzel, Principal
jeff.wetzel@ae-7.com
Won 2nd place in a design competition, never built
Cecilia hates all their furniture and therefore most of the interior shots
Residential Tower with Amenities
20 Retail Units, 504 Serviced Apartments, 44 Freehold Apartments, 6 Penthouses, 119, 115 or 121 Stories?
we were AE7Q at the time
QA provided full Interior Architecture and Design services for Architect of Record, AE7.
TMP Worldwide
our design was taken and somebody else got credit
Corte Madera and Sausalito
Photography Studio
Buildings 24 &25
Cecilia hates this project
Marvin L. Peper
Formerly of Barnes Construction
415 984 1314
BGP, Ticketmaster
Mr. Lee Smith (Presently President of Prescient Entertainment)
Chairman, Live Nation
415 440 9700
leeasmith666@gmail.com
AIA San Francisco "Excellence in Interior Design" Award
Adaptive Reuse - Art & Media Curating
Client Values:
The "Progressive Office" Technology Solution
Management Group Integration Strategies
"Work from Home" Corporate Integration
Microsoft South
Mr. David Polnaszek
Retired Director of Facilities
dpolnaszek@live.com
650 614 7804
Subs: Structural, MEP, Civil, Landscape, Codes, Lighting, Roofing, Signage, Graphics, Security, Technology, Elevators, Acoustics, Food Service, Art, Fire Suppressio, Hydrology
AIASF, USGBC, Nor Cal, AIA
Registered California Historic Building: Hallidie Building
First Curtain Wall Buiilding in SF
Institutional Client & Board of Directors
Historical Renovation
Reference:
Stacy Williams
Deputy Director, AIASF
415 874 2620
swilliams@aiasf.org
Contact:
Bill Groth
bgroth@bcciconst.com
Margie O'Driscoll - Executive Director
margie.odriscoll@gmail.com
Symphony Asset Management purchased by Nuveen
Photographed by Cesar Rubio
Reference:
Christina Mans
Controller
415 676 4041
christina.mans@symphonyasset.com
GREE, Gree International
Out of business
Building Area: 457,224 sf Gross
Project Area: 21,615 sf Gross
19,546 Net
Existing Tenant Area: 34,560 sf Gross
31,888 sf Net
Total Tenant Area: 56,175 sf Gross
51,434sf Net
Building Area: 218,239 sf Gross
Project Area: 18,222 sf Gross
15,988 SF
Lew Cirne, CEO
lew@newrelic.com
Chris Cook, CCO
chris@newrelic.com
Devorah Rosner, Facilities Director
415 404 6719
Rocketfuel
Building Area: +/- 906,924 sf Gross
Project Area: 36,332 sf Gross
35,062 Net
Reference:
Robyn Singer-Dror, Principal
Studio D Interiors
robyn@studiodinteriors.net
917 497 6187
Rocketfuel
Peter Bardwick, CFO
650 517 8843
Single tower despite the plural name
QA is providing architectural and interior design services for the full renovation.
Satellite labs & offices
Original Design Contract Amount: $329,590
Additional Design Services: $151,450
Former Project Managers: Dawn Kokes, Deva Berman
1st Floor: 27,000 sq.ft.
4th Floor: 37,139 sq. ft.
Total Project Area: 64,139 sq. ft.
Total Building Area: 148,076 sq. ft.
Uber is a collaboration between QA and SHoP Architects. Project currently under construction.
Mission Bay Blocks 26 & 27 + Easements
Mixed Use - Office, Retail, Day Care, Public Park
2 Buildings
2 Connecting Bridges
SF Office of Community Investment & Infrastructure (OCII) SF Mission Bay Redevelopment Plan
Permitting: SF Department of Building Inspection Master Site Permit Package + DBI Pre-submittal Review | 13 Bid & Permit Addenda
Quezada Architecture
Project Team
Principal-In-Charge
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Project Manager
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Designers
Ariel Miller
ariel@qa-us.com
650 743 1205
Cecilia Quezada
cecilia@qa-us.com
415-706-6767
Andrew Bemmes
andrew@qa-us.com
513-390-7247
Clare Hyland
clare@qa-us.com
415-757-7688
Kale Wisnia
kale@qa-us.com
415-305-9452