Multi-Use Space Meets Playful Programming
A playfully inspired keystone to the UCSF extended network of public spaces, enlivening the campus, neighborhood, and greater eastern waterfront. Employing an objects-in-a-field design scheme, the plaza is a composition of distinct zones marked by unique features: the Promenade – an urbane tree-lined lane that connects neighborhoods; the Grove – a combination of monolithic timber seats and playful lights within a bosque of trees that compels adult relaxation and children’s exploration; the Amphitheater – a civic-minded sculpture that accommodates small performances and calls children to clamber; and the Central Plaza – a multiuse space for events which is activated by vivid paving patterns and physically framed by the other zones.
This interwoven experience of spaces and places encompasses all people – researchers, doctors, staff, neighbors, patients, students, and children. As the front porch for UCSF’s hospital, 4th Street Plaza is distinctly different from all the others and adds an additional new layer of public space to Mission Bay.
