Refuel

Container Built Community Gathering Hub

Designs for this community gathering hub aim to transform an abandoned gas station site, located on a heavily trafficked Oakland street-corner, into a thriving community amenity. Container built incubator spaces for local food-oriented businesses surround outdoor courtyard spaces which will host exercise classes, small outdoor concerts by local artists, and other opportunities for artists, activists, and community groups.

As part of this revitalization project, the sites’ trees and other plantings have been chosen to specifically provide phyto-remediation and phyto-buffering via stormwater capture and particulate matter filtering to create a healthier environment. The application of this planting method will improve the soil, water, and air quality for the site and its surrounding areas.

Project Information

Location: Oakland, CA

BAY TREE DESIGN

A landscape architecture firm serving Berkeley, Oakland, and the greater San Francisco Bay Area, Bay Tree Design, Inc. provides collaborative design and planning services to a wide range of clients. We strive for three-way sustainability: environmental, community and economic. We support the renovation of our cultural construct for landscapes with healthy ecological processes, community reflection and beneficial children’s landscapes in our work. We seek to make the sum of the parts greater than the whole with each project we help nurture from concept to physical construct.

Bay Tree Design | 2927 Newbury Streeet, Berkeley, CA, 94703, United States