Studio Gang has beat out Allied Works and Michael Maltzan to win a commission to design an expanded art and design campus for the California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco. The decision follows a two-year search and planning process.
Currently, the CCA campus is split between two sites in San Francisco and Oakland. The new unified campus, which will extend on to a 2.4 acre site adjacent to the existing San Francisco campus, will house all of the school’s programs. “We are excited to discover with CCA the possibilities that a unified campus in San Francisco presents for the future of art teaching, learning, and making,” said founding principal Jeanne Gang in a press statement.
Major components of the plan include continuing the school’s tradition of sustainable building practices as well as creating affordable student housing. In recent years, rent in San Francisco has become increasingly unaffordable for most young people. CCA plans to add twice the amount of beds it currently has. The school, and Studio Gang, also hope that the campus redesign will have ripple effects on the surrounding area.
“The site has enormous potential to build an expanded, increasingly connected campus for CCA in a newly thriving design district,” Gang states.
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