This proposed 31 story, market-rate, residential tower is located in East Village, San Diego on 11th Avenue between A and B streets. The site measures 100 x 300 feet, with its long dimension running in a north-south direction along 11th Avenue. The tower’s units are facing west and east to maximize views of the bay and the mountains, respectively.

The project consists of a podium containing parking, retail, and lobby space as well as a tower containing residential units and amenities. The retail and lobby space span the length of 11th Avenue at the ground floor with parking behind and above. To the north, the parking levels are screened from view by vertical metal slats that wrap the corner of 11th Avenue and A street with the open-air amenities deck at the fourth level above. Moving south, the screen transitions to horizontal louvers and clerestory glass to allow for double height lobby and retail space at the southwest corner of the building. It is here that a prominent vertical glass element from the tower above drops below the podium level to greet the horizontal massing of the space below.

The verticality of the tower is textured and annunciated through a language of offsetting planes and vertical and horizontal fins framing balcony groups. A major vertical fin element on the west façade leads the eye from below the podium line to high above the 31st level roof deck where it folds to create a lofty amenity space and frames the glass façade until it terminates abruptly as a guardrail for that space.

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Matthew Arrigo provided design, modeling, rendering, and planning department documentation services.

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Modeled in Sketchup, rendered in VRay, post-production in Photoshop.