Yerba Buena Island sits in the San Francisco Bay between San Francisco and Oakland, California. The Yerba Buena Tunnel runs through its center and connects the western and eastern spans of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. It has had several other names over the decades: Sea Bird Island, Wood Island, and Goat Island. The island is named after the town of Yerba Buena, which was named for the plant of the same name that was abundant in the area.
The Yerba Buena Debate Center was a studio project that set the building on a lush green hill on the Yerba Buena Island. The Debate Center would be a subsidiary to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts aspires to be a center of creativity within the Bay Area; one that is recognized globally and locally for its dedication to artistic innovation, its imagination in the exploration of ideas and its sustained commitment to creatively engaging our community in the contemporary art experience. Inspired by living artists, we seek to create through them and with them a fully integrated center of artistic inquiry that embraces diverse aesthetics and ideas. We are courageous in pursuit of our aspirations, bold in carrying out our work and fearless in our commitment to place contemporary art at the heart of community life.
The Yerba Buena Debate Center concept was to break down the program to its major components: debate hall and deliberation rooms. The one major building, the Debate Hall, is where all the attendees start their day with the topics initiated by the keynote speaker/panel and then meander down to one of the five Deliberation pods.
Illinois Institute of Technology, spring, 2005
The Yerba Buena Debate Center was a studio project that set the building on a lush green hill on the Yerba Buena Island. The Debate Center would be a subsidiary to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts aspires to be a center of creativity within the Bay Area; one that is recognized globally and locally for its dedication to artistic innovation, its imagination in the exploration of ideas and its sustained commitment to creatively engaging our community in the contemporary art experience. Inspired by living artists, we seek to create through them and with them a fully integrated center of artistic inquiry that embraces diverse aesthetics and ideas. We are courageous in pursuit of our aspirations, bold in carrying out our work and fearless in our commitment to place contemporary art at the heart of community life.
The Yerba Buena Debate Center concept was to break down the program to its major components: debate hall and deliberation rooms. The one major building, the Debate Hall, is where all the attendees start their day with the topics initiated by the keynote speaker/panel and then meander down to one of the five Deliberation pods.
Illinois Institute of Technology, spring, 2005