Client: SF Parks Alliance

Overview

Building 180 and our community arm, Paint the Void, were proud to assist and support the India Basin Shoreline Park project. Hypecourt is a colorful, graphic mural installed on the surface of the park’s recently resurfaced basketball court. The local artist behind the mural is Nina Fabunmi, who is a part of the Hunters Point Shipyard Artists community. Fabunmi led a cohort of five local youths from Bayview-Hunters Point (BVHP) to create several designs that reflected themselves. The final design was chosen by the community.

Goals

This mural is the first phase in transforming San Francisco’s newest waterfront park. The park will deliver miles of winding shoreline trails, acres of restored tidal landscape, and an abundance of recreation opportunities to the Bayview neighborhood’s front porch. In a historic moment for environmental justice, the India Basin Waterfront Park project will transform a dilapidated relic of the industrial shipwrights’ era into a 21st-century park. The restoration of the area emphasizes public access, social equity, resiliency, and restoration. The goal of this mural was to kick off this intensive program to reutilize the space and bring more outdoor recreation space to a neighborhood in need.

Process

Hypecourt was made possible by the India Basin Waterfront Park project and its equitable development plan. The program's blueprint is to ensure that the park is designed by and for the BVHP community. The project is a partnership between APRI, the San Francisco Parks Alliance, Trust for Public Land, and the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department.