Our design separated Parcel C into three blocks that extend downtown San Diego’s existing urban grid, maintaining the grain and scale of the ground plane circulation that reinforces the pedestrian activities of the streets. These blocks are divided by walkways, simulating the classic mews, which facilitate specific pedestrian connections through the site. All three sub-parcels are linked at the podium level with a series of walkways and bridges interrupted by engaging opportunities for indoor-outdoor living experiences as exhibited in the “California living rooms” overlooking the street level scene.
Architecture/Multifamily
JMI Realty & Greystar & Lennar
Ballpark Village: Park 12
Vision
Situated in San Diego’s Sport and Entertainment District, the Ballpark Village development offers locational advantages such as proximity Petco Park, the trolley transfer station, and the New Central Library. Ballpark Village was to be the final leg of the 100-year-old plan to link Balboa Park through Downtown San Diego to the Bay. Within the framework of a previously approved Master Plan, Carrier Johnson + Culture was tasked to progress the vision of creating a lively neighborhood within a neighborhood. The development sits on a 3.5-acre site, previously home to a parking lot, divided into three sub-parcels.
Site Personality
Park Boulevard is treated as a ceremonial street, visually and physically linking the ballpark to the bay. Public open space has been provided at each end of the site, and a 12,000-square-foot plaza sits at the intersection of Park Blvd. and 10th Ave.
The personalities of each building have individual links to the community. Parcel C1 relates to the new library in color and modulation, with details in both rough and refined materials. Parcels C3 and C4 represent East Village as a whole, with materials that reflect the industrial history and open portals that reach out to “Tailgate Park” at the East. The base of Parcel C2 has a strong connectivity, visually and physically to Petco Park, by extending internal open space through the street wall. The Plaza is aligned with each building forming a crescent that embraces the open space with glazed facades.
Going Up
The tower takes on the responsibility of being a new icon within East Village. The building’s mass is made of multiple angles that gesture movement and connection from the inner city to the waterfront, with views of the city and beyond. The angled portions are trimmed away from the building at different heights, providing open-space terraces and making way for slender tower features higher up. The balconies have been placed to help reveal the tower’s geometry without taking away from its true character that stands proudly over the ballpark, bay, and downtown neighborhoods.
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