Polk Street Parklet | 2022

scope

DBA has a long running history of working with Saint Frank Coffee, creating spaces and furniture pieces for their locations around the Bay Area. We designed and built a public parklet outside of their Russian Hill location on Polk Street in San Francisco.

Stepstone paver platform with white GFRC concrete benches floating on steel planters with a moment frame and channel pergola overhead.

role

Fabrication, Installation at David Baker Architects / DBA_Workshop

 

Process

img: David Baker Architects

1/4” thick steel planter design by DBA_Workshop, fabricated by BOK Modern, welded on-site

Steel bench bracket design by DBA_Workshop, water jet cut by Standard Metal Products (SMP)

Custom white GFRC benches designed and cast by DBA_Workshop

Pergola designed by DBA_Workshop, fabricated by BC Design Co. in West Oakland