1064 Mission Street
This GreenPoint Gold project has a daunting mission: to address, and begin to solve, chronic homelessness through pioneering program convergence, weaving housing and multi-layered programs and services together to create a broad safety net ― lifting people out of homelessness through robust social and health services and job training under one roof.
Improving neighborhood experiences, safety, and connectivity were also lofty goals. A new plaza, suggested by the architect, is given back to the public realm. It creates a public oasis and reconnects an unsafe dead-end alley to surrounding streets. It also provides a place for residents and neighbors to positively rub shoulders.
Entry from Mission Street
Lobby
Each building has a community kitchen, onsite laundry, and landscaped courtyards.
Community Room
North Courtyard
The residence provides permanent studio apartments for up to 256 individuals experiencing chronic homelessness, with 103 of these new units earmarked for seniors.
Shared interior and exterior spaces are located and designed to foster connections. Ground floor community rooms provide portals to the plaza and courtyards while envelope transparency links the life and lives within the building to the neighborhood.
Two courtyards offer sanctuaries from a tough block.
The first floor of the Mission Street side of the project hosts the new home for CHEFS (Conquering Homelessness through Employment in Food Services), the next step in Episcopal Community Services’ cornerstone workforce development and social enterprise program. This includes 5,500 square feet of space for a state-of-the-art commercial kitchen and training center. The social enterprise program provides alumni of the CHEFS program with an opportunity to develop their culinary skills via paid employment, as well as serve the community with high-quality catering and meal services.
CHEFS Training Program Lobby
CHEFS Classroom
CHEFS Demonstration Kitchen
CHEFS Kitchen
Interior circulation and apartments are designed to encourage socializing. Apartment clusters help foster friendships and the thoughtful design of modules that “break the box” blurs the boundaries of small units and offers views to greenery from every studio.
The facility also includes offices for the Homeless Outreach Team of the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH) and the Tome Waddell Urgent Care Clinic with the Department of Public Health’s (DPH) specialized street medicine program and dental services.
Home Outreach Team Headquarters Terrace
Homeless Outreach Team Headquarters
Clinic Reception
Clinic
Exterior expression honors individuals’ transformations. A visual absence of incessant repetition (of prefabricated apartments) makes the development feel transcendent. Public art honors the neighborhood’s Filipino history. Altogether, collective and surrounding spaces are made more vibrant, livable and safe.
1064 Mission is Green Point Rated Gold
One of the model features of the supportive housing site is that the individual studio apartments were constructed offsite. The modular units were transported to 1064 Mission Street and installed by crane.
Urban Design Approach
Ground Floor Plan
Level 2 Floor Plan
Level 3-6 Floor Plan
Unit Plan
