LODESTAR rethinks the typical office tower and how we might overcome the restrictive limits of mono-functional  zoning. If the pandemic taught us anything in San Francisco, it's the need to diversify functional aspects of neighborhoods and in particular, the commercial exclusivity of the Financial District in downtown 

This proposal, presented to the WEF, repositions a standard office tower and converts it to much needed housing and agricultural production. The expansive floor plates make for poor residential conversions alone. To compensate for this, the dark central core of the tower is utilized as core circulation and grow space for vertical farming  

building area  286,332sf / 15,625sf per floor plate/ 22 stories

42,000sf of vertical farming (1400 acre farm equivalent), 250 housing units, wind and solar power harvesting 

street level market

​recreational space

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COLLABORATORS

Eric Reeder Architect

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