Hop on your bicycles, scooters, or BayWheels to tour some recent high-density, mixed-income, mixed-use developments with David Baker, FAIA, and the DBA team. We’ll visit Mason on Mariposa, Potrero 1010, and 855 Brannan—market-rate communities that integrate new homes and businesses, provide public open space, promote neighborhood connectivity, and bring sensitive density to the Potrero Hill and SOMA neighborhoods. We’ll finish the tour at Five88, workforce housing in Mission Bay, adjacent to SPARK Social SF—a perfect place to grab a quick lunch. This relatively flat 3-mile bike ride will include property visits with the project architects.

Image credit: Anne Hammersky

Tour Leaders
David Baker, FAIA, is the founder of David Baker Architects, an architecture and urban design firm known for exceptional housing, creative site strategies, designing for density, and integrating new construction into the public realm. An industry leader in urban housing design, he has guided and overseen the design of more than 15,000 homes, including the mixed-use communities on this tour. David is a longtime urban cyclist and cycling advocate and leads architectural bicycle tours to engage participants with city biking and how housing design can reinforce the urban fabric, elevate neighborhoods, and uplift communities.

Stephen Doherty, AIA, David Baker Architects, Associate Stephen Doherty is a Bay Area native and architect with more than 20 years of local design and construction experience, including affordable, market-rate, and modular housing. Stephen led construction administration for Potrero 1010, a micro-neighborhood completed in 2016 that features two distinctive buildings flanking a newly created 1-acre public park integrated into the base of Potrero Hill.

Won Young Kim, David Baker Architects, Associate Won Young Kim is a skilled architectural designer and project manager who has completed more than 1,000 affordable and market-rate multifamily housing units in California. His most recent project, 555 Larkin—a collaboration with TNDC—is under construction and soon to bring 108 new affordable homes to the Tenderloin. Won oversaw the development and construction of 855 Brannan, a 449-home mixed-use community completed in 2018 that features a highly active ground level rich with resident amenities open to the larger neighborhood.