What do you get when you combine an Organic Architect and an old brewery? It’s sounds tasty to us but in reality San Francisco gets one of its newest Green buildings. The new Sports Basement recently opened over on Bryant and 15th Street without much Green fanfare but we’re here to dole out some props.
With Green building it’s sometimes not what you use but what you don’t use or in this case what you re-use. Here they managed 85% construction demolition salvage. In their quest for LEED Gold status (or at least LEED Silver) they reused a ton of materials including many fixtures and the wood stairs. We didn’t smell any nasty VOCs here with zero-VOC paints, sealers, and adhesives. They use Soy Guard on the intentionally rough looking floors but it’s too bad they didn’t use FSC Certified wood though.
They hardly need the high efficiency lighting as the interior gets heaps of natural daylight, and they beat Title 24 Energy Code by 40%. The natural daylight (especially on those non cloudy days) brings lots of heat. No forced air ventilation here, so think about shopping in shorts. We took a break from perusing the myriad sporting goods to enjoy the bathroom experience with dual flush, low flow toilets. They do use paper towels but they have an extensive compost program. We’re hoping that they follow through on their plans to install Xcelerator hand dryers (dries your hands in 5 seconds) as well as a green roof and solar panels, which they have on the drawing board.
In the front, apparently organic architect Freed wanted to install porous paving and more landscape than sidewalk but time constraints nixed that idea at least for now. He envisioned the 15 foot sidewalk turned into a four foot winding path through a planted landscape, which sounds heavenly to us.
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