Coffee Mission | San Francisco, CA

This project was done in collaboration with Studio J in San Francisco. The project involved converting an old retail space into a new coffee shop in the heart of the Mission District. The east wall facing the 24th Street BART station plaza has long been a landmark wall in the Mission's street art scene. Since the wall creates an important backdrop we knew that we wanted to maintain it, but we also wanted to open up the cafe to the public plaza. This was achieved by creating a new long window at eye level and a sliding barn door in the graffiti wall. The result is a colorful and lively coffee shop that now interacts with and engages the BART Plaza and Osage alley to become a lively public space.