Categories: Community Based Design
Students Win AIASF Leadership Award
Students Win AIASF Leadership Award School of Architecture students and faculty were prominently represented at the AIASF Design Awards Ceremony and Gala. Architecture students were the recipients of the AIASF 2025 Leadership Award, in the Student Category, for their collaborative work on the Stay Over Program family shelter. Congratulations to the students! Lowai Ghaly, BArch…
B.lab Collaboration with Oakland Heritage Alliance
B.lab Collaboration with Oakland Heritage Alliance 16th St Station, located off Wood Street in West Oakland, sits empty. Damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake and long vacant, this important and iconic building is threatened with neglect. As a former Southern Pacific Rail station it served as the western headquarters for the International Brotherhood of…
B.lab Community-Based Design
B.lab Community-Based Design The B.lab program at the School of Architecture, Academy of Art University, was started in 2018. Through robust partnerships with neighbors, kids, and local non-profits, the program has built and delivered multiple projects throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. At its core, B.lab is a design-build program promoting spatial justice for local…
Healing Garden for San Francisco Fire Department
Healing Garden for San Francisco Fire Department Students in the School of Landscape Architecture have been hard at work creating proposals for a Healing Garden for the San Francisco Fire Department. The garden will have multiple uses. One will be as a space used by first responders during debriefing sessions after critical incident…
Volunteers Needed at the Stay Over Program
Volunteers Needed at the Stay Over Program Students at the School of Architecture designed and fabricated 80 folding beds for an emergency family shelter in San Francisco. A few of the beds need repairs so we are looking for a small group of volunteers on a Saturday. Tools and supplies will be provided.…
ACSA Conference Publication
ACSA Conference Publication ARH 498 faculty and students co-authored a paper presented at ACSA's 112th Annual Meeting: Disrupters on the Edge. Micro-Intervention and Co-Creation at a Family Shelter: Co-creation is not new, but it should be more widely embraced as one approach to tackle systemic problems. Paired with micro-interventions, it can reach those who are…
ARH students featured on NBC Bay Area, “Bay Area Proud”
ARH students featured on NBC Bay Area, “Bay Area Proud” We're so proud of the ARH students featured on NBC bay area, showcasing their design build work with the Stay Over Program shelter in San Francisco. See the article here: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/bay-area-proud/san-francisco-college-students-design-construct-dozens-of-beds-for-homeless-students-and-their-families/3465695/ Back to UG Student Work
ARH 498 Collaborative Project B.lab
B.lab Community-Based Design ARH 498 (and ARH 512) courses comprise the B.lab community-based design program at the School of Architecture. You will design and build a real project for actual occupants that you will have met through the community outreach process. By the end of the sequence, you will have taken part in a…
Honoring Prescott Reavis, NOMA, LEED AP, SEED, NCARB
Honoring Prescott Reavis, NOMA, LEED AP, SEED, NCARB With profound sadness, we share the news that Prescott Reavis passed away on Feb 8th. Prescott was a spatial activist, architect, educator, and an impactful friend and advisor to the School of Architecture. He had been a mentor to those of us who mentor, a teacher…
Meet Everyday Heroes
Meet Everyday Heroes Sameena Sitabkhan, Adam Nuru and Markish Siojo All kids deserve a clean safe place to play, enjoy the outdoors and explore their surroundings. When SFHDC approached Sameena Sitabkhan, Director of B.Lab at San Francisco’s Academy of Art University, about designing and building a new active community space at our Bayview Commons residential development,…
B Arch Collaborative Project
Kid of Parts for the Bayview Commons Apartments B.lab Collaborative Project Students: Adam Nuru, Markish Siojo, Dylan Ingle, Fabio Lemos, Xiaohuan Corona Gao Faculty: Sameena Sitabkhan, NOMA B.Arch Community Building Award View Spring Show Project This is the second project by B.Lab in partnership with the Bayview Commons Community and San Francisco Housing Development Corporation…
Undergrad Faculty Sameena Sitabkhan talks B.Lab with Bobby Brill on the Creative Mind podcast
Check out the latest podcast in the Creative Mind series with Bobby Brill: Creative Mind - Community Architecture Community Architecture with Sameena Sitabkhan (ARH undergraduate faculty) In this episode of Creative Mind, Sameena walks us through some of B.Lab’s projects in the San Francisco Bay Area including community builds for the NCH Community Garden and…
Architecture Students One Step Closer to End Goal – Art u News Article
The second in a series of articles profiling the hard work of ARH 498 students as they fabricate the "Kid of Parts" project for he Bayview Commons Apartments Community in San Francisco. Read it here: https://artunews.com/2020/08/31/architecture-students-one-step-closer-to-end-goal/
Kid of Parts, B.Lab Community Based Design
Kid of Parts at the Bayview Commons Apartments B.lab Collaborative Project Corona Xiaohuan Gao, B.Arch, Fabio Lemos, B.Arch, Dylan Ingle, B.Arch, Markish Siojo, B.Arch, Adam Nuru, B.Arch Faculty: Sameena Sitabkhan, NOMA B.Arch Community Building Award View Spring Show Project Program/ Project Description: This is the third project by B.Lab in partnership with the Bayview Commons Community and…
Designed with Community, Built by Students Fundraising Campaign Ends July 12th!
Campaign ends July 12th! Help support our student campaign to build an outdoor gathering space offering joy and relief to the residents of the Bayview Commons Apartment Building in Bayview-Hunters Point, California Designed with Community, Built by Students https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/kid-of-parts#/ The Bayview Commons Apartments is an affordable community in service since 2003, located in the Bayview-Hunters…
Kid of Parts, a design build project by undergrad thesis students is published in the Academy ArtU news
Read the article here:https://artunews.com/2020/06/19/architecture-students-design-a-courtyard-for-real-life-community/ As this is a student led project, please consider a small donation to ensure it gets built for the great community at the Bayview Commons! https://igg.me/at/uEMCiAjCpBE/emal/10274510
Community Design Trip!
Sameena Sitabkhan takes Community Design to Bosnia Herzegovina November 8, 2019 Sameena Sitabkhan, full-time undergraduate faculty member was recently invited through the US State Dept Arts Envoy program to conduct two design workshops for high school students in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Balkans. The workshops aimed to show how design can be a tool…
San Francisco Design Week Honors AAU Project
THE GUERILLA COFFEE UNIT (ARH 250 FALL 2017 AT THE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, ACADEMY OF ART UNIVERSITY) IS HONORED AT FIRST ANNUAL SAN FRANCISCO DESIGN WEEK AWARDS San Francisco Design Week honors projects encouraging thought leadership in design. Design Awards Theme: “Where Innovation Meets Social Responsibility” June 7, 2018–San Francisco, California ARH 250 was honored at…