Salesforce Park is a 2.2-hectare living roof, about five and a half acres, sitting on top of a transit center in downtown San Francisco. Where there was concrete and asphalt, there are now 600 mature trees and 16,000 plants across thirteen botanical zones, with roughly 1.1 million people living within half a mile of it.
I researched and created the concept for the park and developed its ecological design, working alongside the architects at Pelli Clarke & Partners. The roof earns its place. It collects and filters rainwater, cleans the air through its soil, stores heat in the ground beneath it, and carries an 800-seat amphitheater.
A park doing the work of an ecosystem, four storeys above the street.
It opened to the public in 2019.