This Potrero Heights Senior and Community Center strategically places a modest building within a small park, transforming it into an iconic and joyous public space. The new community center, hosting lively programming for seniors and local citizens, bathes in light and seamlessly integrates with the surrounding landscape. By leveraging the park and outdoors, the architecture enhances the area as a significant civic place for gathering, recreation, celebration, and community identity.  Large openings and transparencies connect the interior with shaped topography and frame significant views, while glass garage doors create covered indoor/outdoor space, with red curtains providing flexibility, acoustical attenuation, and visual drama to both areas.