Scotchhollow is an ex­ist­ing 418-unit fam­ily apart­ment com­mu­nity built in the early 1970s, where the owner is seek­ing to up­grade the de­vel­op­ment to more mod­ern stan­dards of liv­ing to at­tract a chang­ing de­mo­graphic on the San Francisco penin­sula.

Our pro­posed im­prove­ments looked at re­plac­ing the ex­ist­ing com­mu­nity cen­ter with a larger one that ac­co­mo­dates more ameni­ties, cre­at­ing more di­rect paths through the land­scape, adding pro­gram­matic el­e­ments to un­ac­ti­vated lawn ar­eas, ori­ent­ing the front door of ground floor units to­wards com­mon ar­eas rather than in­te­rior cor­ri­dors, im­prov­ing light­ing through­out the site, up­grad­ing the look of car­ports, and adding ac­cess points be­tween the com­mu­nity and the park next door.