UC Berkeley, Master of Urban Design studios
Fall 2017, 2018, 2019:
Bay Area sites
John Ellis and Harrison Fraker studio instructors
The UC Berkeley Master of Urban Design studio has typically developed master planning designs for a range of Bay Area sites that address many of the issues of our times. Transit-oriented development, density, mixed-use, sea level rise, and green urbanism on brownfield sites. Several locations have been the focus of these designs including the San Francisco Central Waterfront; Baylands in Brisbane; the former Alameda Air Station; and the Oakland Coliseum.
The students work in teams to bring their skills as planners, architects, landscape and urban designers to the task. The designs involve creating master plans for phased development, street and block patterns and a range of building typologies as well as considering the economic engines that will support the development.
The Central Waterfront team won a CNU Merit Award in 2020.
Alameda site design by Soraya el Alami.
The diagonal follows the path of one of the original runways.
Alameda Naval Air Station site. Masoomeh Sharifi 2017
Alameda Naval Air Station site.
Coliseum site showing a new mixed-use neighborhood built around the former stadium site and extending across the Nimitz Freeway to the Bay. Team members: Veronica Alatorre, Amalia Carmona, Zhuping Li and Sean King.
Aerial perspective view from the Bay.
Alameda Naval Air Station site. A new town built on this disused naval air station site and linked to a new Transbay BART tube across the Bay to San Francisco. Team members: Wenjie Wu, Zijing Chen, Daniella Orellana, Eshana Masud.
The plan is organized around four neighborhoods separated by new canals across the site and linked along a major linear park on axis with the view towards San Francisco.
Aerial view of San Francisco Central Waterfront, Fall 2018 studio.
Aerial view of the Central Waterfront site in San Francisco showing the full build out including the construction of a new seawall to protect the area from sea level rise. Team members: Asma Boutrik, Dewi Bleher, Jaime Varas.
The plan incorporates some of the existing industrial and waterfront sites and proposed several thousand new housing units and new waterfront parks.
Central Waterfront studio 2017. Chang Xu and others
Aerial view.
Marin City on the former Marin Shipyard site reconfigured into a new mixed-use community and addressing sea level rise. Tiantong Gu and others. 2018
Detail view of the proposed town center
UC Berkeley MUD students 2017
UC Berkeley MUD students 2019