This is a vertical studio combining students in the fourth and fifth year of the BArch program with students from the architecture graduate programs. The studio asks students to translate an architectural concept into a comprehensive, integrated building solution, with special consideration given to how building performance systems can help address climate change. Students work in teams, and in collaboration with outside consultants, to develop a detailed architectural project that incorporates building envelope, structural, environmental, and life safety systems, as well as synthesizing user requirements, regulatory requirements, site conditions, and accessibility considerations.Section Description:Treasure Island Sailing Center, Clipper CoveThe San Francisco Bay is the largest tidal estuary in California, where 40% of the state’s land mass drains into the Bay. The combined population of cities that share the shoreline of this waterbody is about 2.4 million people. Yet, for those of us who live in these cities, only a very small fraction experience being on the water.The Treasure Island Sailing Center, centrally located in the San Francisco Bay, mission is to change that reality and make the water accessible through sailing for people of all socio-economic backgrounds, abilities and skill levels, from novices to Olympians. Thousands of public school students have visited this Sailing Center to experience the thrill of sailing on the Bay while concurrently learning why the health of the ocean is so vital. This program has been facilitated by CCA’s Architectural Ecologies Lab, with the FloatLab prototype relocating there last year.Since 1999, Clipper Cove has been the home of this organization. The cove was named for the amphibious Clipper planes; this “flying boat” was capable of transoceanic flights in the 1940s. Clipper planes frequently took off and landed at Clipper Cove situated between the natural island of Yerba Buena and Treasure Island, the largest artificial island in the world when it was built in 1937.The Sailing Center has been operating out of a makeshift collection of temporary buildings which have been shifted along the shoreline of Clipper Cove as the current master plan for Treasure Island is under way. For this reason, the center has decided to pause its operations and programs for two to three years, as the City and its partners move into the next phase of building out the neighborhood improvements integrating housing and ecological open spaces. This Integrated Studio will amplify and give vision to the importance of the Sailing Center’s long-term future and sustainability at Treasure Island by engaging the public with speculative designs of a revitalized Sailing Center. The studio will be informed by the specifics of a program developed by the organization, as well as the site parameters contained in the current master plan, but will look further towards rethinking the relationship between architecture and a dynamic coastal edge.Much like sailboats which harness the power of wind, are structurally sound, respond to buoyant forces, and can be readily moved to land, the studio will look towards an analogous amphibious architectural strategy. As an integrated studio, student teams will develop tectonic and spatial approaches which consider the transitory nature of boats and people in their engagement with the ocean. The implications of an unstable shoreline will be explored for the ability to generate novel architectural forms which are adaptive, dynamic and transformable both spatially and tectonically over time.

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