Mount Zion UCSF Outpatient Cancer Center
Architecture 229: Building Stories


 

 

 

 

 

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case data:

client: UC San Francisco
architect: SmithGroup
c.a.: Prowest
budget: $25 million
size: 86,000 sf 
use: Outpatient Medical Facility
location: 1600 Divisadero Street
(x Sutter Street), 
San Francisco, CA

case study team:
Jane Lin
Deb Struthers
Derek Lueck

Fall 2002 Department of Architecture
UC Berkeley

UCSF, jack of all trades.

The organization of UCSF Mt. Zion Outpatient Cancer Center is unique because UCSF is owner, developer, general contractor, and end user. We investigated how this organization structure made a better building, but also slowed down the process.

Executive Summary