Warehouse Turned Suave Social Club
Client
FORGE
Location
San Francisco, United States
Sector
Year Completed
2013
Floor Area
60,000 SF
Project Value
US $50M
Architect
Contractor
Holmes Team
Bevan Jones, Brian Salyers
The project involved the renovation of a historic unreinforced masonry warehouse into a social club to be known as ‘The Battery’, providing dining, hotel rooms, meeting spaces, and event spaces to its club members. The life safety design and performance based fire engineering provided by Holmes Fire allowed for the dramatic design to provide life safety through alternatives shown to be equivalent or better than code requirements while taking into account the building’s sensitive historic fabric.
A new fourth floor penthouse created an event space. Alternative Solutions were developed for the internal grand stair, to allow its non-fire rated glass enclosure. An assessment confirmed that the existing exposed wood floor system would achieve adequate fire-resistance to support new enclosed exit stairs, without added fire protection. Other alternative solutions were developed to address external boundary wall openings, fire safety provisions for rooftop assembly use space and occupant evacuation from the building. Holmes Fire’s involvement was key to achieving the architectural and functionality objectives of this project.