These new community & service multipurpose buildings are designed and built to house the Friends of Peralta Hacienda’s community and youth programs.  These buildings are the first phase in realizing an overall master plan for the site that will consist of 4 buildings in a courtyard design that will include a workshop within a working orchard, are meant to welcome the community today, especially youth, with their light and playful look, They also complete the Map of Time starting with the adobe wall referring to the rancho era.

The community buildings are set in an historical park, amid community gardens and interpretive displays featuring the Peralta family’s influence on the development of Oakland and the significance of this site.  The site is historical, so the buildings are designed as a contemporary interpretation of a traditional adobe.

The building refers to the life-ways of historical times, in that it is geared for indoor and outdoor activities that spill outdoors with sliding glass walls that can be opened along one side of the room, such as in a hacienda with patios and a courtyard.