B.lab
The B.lab
is a design build program at the Academy of Art University promoting spatial justice for local communities and advocacy for future designers.
2025 AIASF Student Leadership Award
2021 SFHDC Everyday Heroes Nominee
2019 San Francisco Challenge Grant Awardee
2018 SF Design Week Student Innovation
2015 AIASF Community Alliance Award
2025 AIASF Student Leadership Award
2021 SFHDC Everyday Heroes Nominee
2019 San Francisco Challenge Grant Awardee
2018 SF Design Week Student Innovation
2015 AIASF Community Alliance Award
Academy of Art
School of Architecture
601 Brannan Street
San Francisco CA
School of Architecture
601 Brannan Street
San Francisco CA
826 Valencia
Bayview Commons Apartments
Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School
Code Tenderloin
Dolores Street Housing Corporation
Housing Consortium of the East Bay
Habitat for Humanity SF, The John Stewart Company
KIPP Bridge School
West Oakland Environmental Indicators
Lave Mae
Literacy for Justice
MPI Homes
Mesh DBS
Mission Housing Development Corporation
Northridge Cooperative Homes
NCH UNITY garden
SF Marin Foodbank
Oakland Heritage Alliance
San Francisco Housing Devt Corp
San Francisco Parks Alliance
San Francisco Community Challenge Grant
San Francisco Public Works and Planning
San Francisco Planning Department
Oakland Heritage Alliance
Bayview Commons Apartments
Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School
Code Tenderloin
Dolores Street Housing Corporation
Housing Consortium of the East Bay
Habitat for Humanity SF, The John Stewart Company
KIPP Bridge School
West Oakland Environmental Indicators
Lave Mae
Literacy for Justice
MPI Homes
Mesh DBS
Mission Housing Development Corporation
Northridge Cooperative Homes
NCH UNITY garden
SF Marin Foodbank
Oakland Heritage Alliance
San Francisco Housing Devt Corp
San Francisco Parks Alliance
San Francisco Community Challenge Grant
San Francisco Public Works and Planning
San Francisco Planning Department
Oakland Heritage Alliance
Last Updated 09.14.26
Through community engagement with residents, students designed and built a vibrant communal space for Mandela House, a a 105 unit supportive Housing and adaptive re0se project in West Oakland
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B.lab students fabricated 80 folding, mobile beds in design partnership with the Stayover program residents. Located in the Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 Community School in San Francisco is the first-of-its kind emergency family shelter in San Francisco.
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Point Perch was designed and built after a lengthy outreach process with neighbors in the Hunters Point are of San Francisco. It is an outdoor gathering space with an undulating deck, benches and a stage.
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Point Perch was designed and built after a lengthy outreach process with neighbors in the Hunters Point are of San Francisco. It is an outdoor gathering space with an undulating deck, benches and a stage.
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Point Perch was designed and built after a lengthy outreach process with neighbors in the Hunters Point are of San Francisco. It is an outdoor gathering space with an undulating deck, benches and a stage.
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Passer(s)by is a public space sited within Park Merced, a development built by the Met Life Company in 1941 that contains 2500 apartments alongside parks and courts.
Located off Wood Street in West Oakland, the 16th Street train station sits empty. From September- December 2024, Students partnered with the Oakland Heritage Alliance to envision futures for the station.
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As part of B.lab campaigns, students adovcate for and run fundraising campigns for their clients and projects.
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The Guerrilla Coffee Unit (GCU) refutes the gentrified, high end coffee-laden streetscapes by creating a free urban kitchen table and sanctuary for the city’s ever-more visible unhoused population.
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Through a children’s design workshop with kids being forced to shelter in place, we designed and developed an outdor furniture installation in an existing outdoor courtyard.
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