Starr King Elementary School

Illustrative section of trees in the school yard

Starr King Elementary School

Starr King Elementary School is the pilot program for the 2011 Bond which builds on the SFUSD 2006 Bond programs successes and aspirations. This project, called GreenSchoolyard 2.0, had the visionary goal of including stormwater management, rainwater harvesting, place-based plant and tree selection, and an environment for enriching play and learning. Bay Tree Design working collaboratively with 450 Architects has created the first public school in San Francisco to comply with SFPUC’s stormwater regulations, harvest rainwater for indoor plumbing uses, have more challenging play equipment, and designated nature play areas.

Project Information

Client: San Francisco Unified School District

Location: San Francisco, California

Size: 1 acre

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.

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