Designing Places for People to Thrive
CIVIC PROJECT EXPERIENCE
FIRM INTRODUCTION
Caltech Hameetman Student Center
Designing places for people to thrive. GGA Architects was established in 1980 with a mission to enrich our collective public life through design. Creating built environments that reinforce social engagement and support the advancement of our civic, education, and community-based clients is at the core of all we do. Our team is passionate about our work. We aspire to be recognized as an innovative, human-centered architectural design and professional practice, fueled by our diversity. Every project is the result of collaborative partnerships and multi-disciplinary research and design. We seek design solutions that deeply and positively respond to context and reinforce our clients’ missions. We live and grow by these three core values in the work that we do, the people we partner with and the built environments we create.
Pursue Quality
Collaborate and Share GGA
Honor our Commitments
University Student Engagement and Recruitment
Our designs are deeply rooted in community. Thriving communities are what great cities are made of, places that are built upon the power of human experience. How people engage and flow and the innate human desire to be part of something bigger is vital. It is the potential to amplify human connection that drives us to design with both passion and optimism. Our depth and breadth of work is the direct result of enduring partnerships with mission-driven, community serving, and multiplestakeholder and governance institutions with whom we share resonant values. We strive to deepen our meaningful work quality and impact through cross-sector design and end stakeholder experience. From new public schools in urban Los Angeles, to college campuses, to hillside residential communities for the formerly homeless, our designs are deeply rooted in community.
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Robert F Kennedy Community Schools - Public Mural Program
Inspired by the power of design. Committed to issues of social justice. GGA is committed to investing in and empowering studio leadership from a diverse field of backgrounds and skill-sets. We feel this wide range of voices strengthens and furthers our mission creating diverse, equitable, and inclusive urban environments. The studio is led by a core group of Principals, Associate Principals, and Associates that reflect this mission. Our studio mirrors the vibrancy and diversity that is Southern California. We strive to partner with our clients in helping reaching and strengthening their goals and missions.
Diverse Studio of Architects & Designers
A diverse, human-centered architectural design practice. With a long standing commitment to design and quality assurance, the firm has a total of 38 employees including eleven licensed Architects, a Certified Access Specialist (CASp) and a well rounded staff of dedicated and diverse designers. Beyond its three Principals, the firm is further guided by a committed group of Associate Principal and Associate leadership.
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CIVIC PROJECTS
ROWLAND HEIGHTS COMMUNITY CENTER
Our work with Civic clients includes both designing the spaces that help them successfully deliver service to their constituents, as well as developing strategies that help promote a culture of success in the workplace. At GGA we understand the need to provide strong civic design leadership when working with strategic planning groups, translating these guiding principles into design environments that maximize service and flexibility. LA BOYS & GIRLS CLUB East LA Athletic Center Renovation COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION Rowland Heights Community Center Affordable Housing Renovations Maravilla Community Center Renovation Willowbrook Senior Center Renovation CITY OF LOS ANGELES BOE LADOT CNG Bus Maintenance Facility A Bridge Home - Transitional Housing (3) sites Navigation Center for Homelessness CD 2 COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS Hall of Records - Dept. of Consumer Affairs Alcazar Yard Consolidation Warm Springs Campus Master Plan MLK Hospital Recuperative Care Downtown Mental Health Center Affordable Housing Renovations San Fernando Health Center
METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT Yorba Linda Plant Site Planning Weymouth Facility Master Plan & Entry CITY OF ARCADIA Fire Station No. 105 CITY OF AZUSA Public Library & Civic Center Plan Santa Fe Depot Rehabilitation CITY OF BREA Council Chambers Renovation CITY OF CALABASAS Civic & Cultural Complex Community/Senior Center CITY OF COVINA New Community Senior Center Police Facilities Study & Planning CITY OF CULVER CITY New City Hall & Civic Plaza
MONROVIA LIBRARY
CITY OF DIAMOND BAR Community/Senior Center & Library
CITY OF POMONA Washington Park Community Center
CITY OF EL MONTE City Hall Renovation/Addition Mountain View Community Center Renovation Civic Center/Administration Center Public Works Maintenance Facility
CITY OF ROSEMEAD Garvey Park Recreation Offices Zapopan & Rosemead Community Centers
CITY OF GLENDALE Police Facility Headquarters (in Association with Dworsky Associates) CITY OF LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE Adaptive Re-Use City Hall CITY OF LONG BEACH Leeway Sailing Center El Dorado Nature Center CITY OF MONROVIA Public Library & Centennial Park CITY OF NORWALK Economic Development Employment Center CITY OF PASADENA Fire Station No. 34 City Hall Space Planning Water and Power Field Operations Building Community Health Center
CITY OF SANTA CLARITA Canyon Country Community Center & Park CITY OF SIMI VALLEY City Hall/City Hall Addition Boys’ and Girls’ Club Senior Citizen’s Center CITY OF TEMPLE CITY Community Center Facility Civic Center Facility Assessment CITY OF WESTLAKE VILLAGE City Hall and Library CITY OF SOUTH GATE Courthouse Adaptive Re-Use Employment Center CITY OF WEST HOLLYWOOD Fire Station No. 7
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LADOT CNG BUS MAINTENANCE FACILITY Downtown Los Angeles, CA CLIENT City of Los Angeles Bureau of Engineering/LADOT SIZE 22,000 sf maintenance facility, 6 acre yard COMPLETED 2019
The new LADOT Downtown Bus Maintenance and Compressed Natural Gas Fueling Facility will meet the Department’s need to consolidate administrative and maintenance operations. This state-of-the-art facility will provide increased capacity to meet the escalating demands of the growing bus fleet. To meet the operating and maintenance philosophies of LADOT, we have been asked to design an efficient environment that meets the City’s sustainability goals, as well as ensures the safety of the public and LADOT personnel, all within the project budget and schedule. The location of the new facility in the geographic center of its service area reduces operating and maintenance costs. However, the restrictions around the site do provide a challenge to planning an efficient, safe, state-of-the-art complex – a design challenge that Gonzalez Goodale and our design team have successfully met before in similar projects. LEED PLATINUM Certified
American Society Of Civil Engineers Metropolitan Los Angeles - Project of the Year 2019 American Society Of Civil Engineers Los Angeles - Sustainable Engineering Project of the Year 2019 C I V I C P R OJ E C T E XPERI ENCE 10
CANYON COUNTRY COMMUNITY CENTER Santa Clarita, CA
OWNER City of Santa Clarita SIZE 25,000sf community center with gym, multi-purpose rooms, and indoor/outdoor connection to 6 acre park SCHEDULE Currently in Construction Documentation Est. Completion 2020
Identifying a need for both community facilities and green space which could serve a large section of the City of Santa Clarita, a site was chosen which could provide both. What was once a Federal FEMA flood channel will soon become the Canyon Country Community Center and Park. The new park will provide a generous program of landscape space including walking trails, botanical gardens, a land formed ampitheatre, and pedestrian bridges across dry river beds - all within a gracious 6 acre site. The project planning and design phase benefited greatly from active input and collaboration with City Council leadership. The community center will open up and connect extensively and ceremoniously to the outdoor space. Within 25,000sf, the new center will contain a full gymnasium, 4 multipurpose rooms, locker rooms, classrooms, and a kitchen for catered events. The architectural style of the building and site draw from the rustic Californian context of both the surrounding land and development.
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WATER & POWER FIELD OPERATIONS OFFICES Pasadena, CA CLIENT Pasadena Department of Water & Power SIZE 32,000 sf operations building, 3,400 sf Emergency operations center COMPLETED 2012
The setting for this complex is the Department’s current Operations Yard. While the operations yard has little public exposure, the City challenged the architects to design a building that would be highly sustainable and would be an exemplary setting for Water and Power employees. The new Operations Office Building stands opposite a 1930’s Warehouse/Office Building as a gateway to the Operations Yard, a wholly contemporary twin to the original. Whereas the original is a vertical-pier brick building, the new building is clad on three sides with perforated metal panels over walls of glass and plaster. Sustainability measures include natural ventilation, use of local and recycled materials, and aggressive efficiency analysis/performance in both mechanical and lighting systems. Water-use inside the building is reduced by 30% of the baseline standard and the energy performance is 28% above the baseline standard. Daylight and views are maintained for 90% of the building’s occupants. Also, on the site, pervious paving captures rainwater and allows percolation to recharge aquifers and reduce storm water infrastructure, while the new building’s compact footprint minimizes site disturbance. Infrastructure is provided on-site to provide a parking canopy of photovoltaic panels that will offset much of the building’s energy costs. Certified LEED GOLD C I V I C P R OJ E C T E XPERI ENCE 14
COMMUNITY ATHLETICS & WELLNESS
ROWLAND HEIGHTS COMMUNITY CENTER
CLIENT: County of Los Angeles Community Development Commission SCOPE: 12,000sf, 1.2 Acre site, basketball and tennis courts, hiking trails, splashpad Founded in a deeply engaged community process, the expectations of varying community and park interests present a parallel challenge to be met. Highly multi-function, the facility includes banquet hall, separate large multi-purpose room, exercise /classrooms, exhibition space, and integrated adjacent outdoor venues. The site is on the low terrace of Pathfinder Park, a zone of the park that is highly constrained by a variety of utility and drainage easements. The principal challenge of the extremely linear site is footprint-constraining boundaries of the utility easements. Split in two by the challenging utility easement, the design leverages the separation to create discrete use zones, and additionally symbolizes both the diversity and the unity of the Rowland Heights Community.
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Westside Family YMCA Los Angeles (West LA), CA CLIENT YMCA / Los Angeles Unified School District SIZE 70,000sf Swimming Pool, Gymnasium, Activity & Workout Spaces, Teen Center, Administration, and Community Meeting. COMPLETED 2017
This groundbreaking joint-use project, a collaboration between the YMCA and LAUSD is sited at the southwest corner of University High School. Its ‘sister’ facility will be a gym and locker rooms to the east, allowing students, during weekdays, to share access to the gym and teen center, along with Y members. The site is a relatively tough area, facing the backside of Santa Monica Boulevard commercial/industrial uses. The project goals: To maximize synergy with the school gym; to celebrate the presence of the YMCA and its pool to the community without sacrificing a sense of security; and to build with a maximum of economy. Taking advantage of the corner’s visual exposure to Santa Monica Boulevard, a vaulted roof shelters both entry and pool The principal street side-wall of the pool is a green ‘living wall’ that creates a fresh garden setting for the building. The remainder of the building, modest in form, but generous in interior openness and sociability, shapes itself around additional garden courtyards and roof courts that allow extension of recreation and exercise programs from inside to outside.
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WESTLAKE VILLAGE CIVIC CENTER Westlake Village, CA CLIENT City of Westlake Village SIZE 26,000 sf (library area 10,750 sf/city hall area 12,082 sf) Full A/E services including interior design (FF&E) COMPLETED 2007
The site for Westlake Village’s civic center is located atop a terrace with challenging topography and panoramic mountain views. In addition to providing for the civic/cultural functions of Westlake Village, the design team was charged with bringing civic identity to a city noted for its civility and for its merger of both urban and rural values. The principal challenge of the site was the achievement of urban and pedestrian civic generosity on a compact suburban site with a rich menu of program requirements: City Hall and Council Chamber, County Library, Community Meeting Rooms, Civic Square, Civic Garden, and surface parking. (wood, cork) in composing a simple but rich tonal palette. In pursuit of a meaningful civic place, surface parking is located to a pair of stepped terraces behind the main civic center, with visitors and staff entering the civic center—rain and shine— through a common Civic Square and its arcade. The components of the civic center are arrayed in an “H”-shape, an extroverted hacienda form, with a glassy community living room/meeting room occupying the crossbar of the “H”, commanding breathtaking views over the landscape. The major finish materials—smooth finish cement plaster, copper, natural wood, and stone—provide both informal warmth and civic durability. C I V I C P R OJ E C T E X PERI ENCE 20
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PUBLIC LIBRARY & CENTENNIAL PARK Monrovia, CA
OWNER City of Monrovia SIZE 28,000 square feet - LEED SILVER Certified Full A/E services including interior design (FF&E); COMPLETED 2010
Nestled in 100 year old ‘Library Park,’ (with 100 year old surrounding trees), in the heart of Monrovia’s classical brick Old Town, this library is the 3rd in a succession that began with a Carnegie Library. The architecture and interiors were both charged with holding the regard for these traditions, while also achieving a number of wholly contemporary goals: employment of highly sustainable materials, comprehensive interior daylighting, and presentation of the library as an enlivening public place. The synthesis of traditions and contemporary goals was achieved through the building’s low-slung and a-stylistic intimacy with the park, its central clerestory lighting, its generosity of spatial character, and its use of renewable materials (wood, cork) in composing a simple but rich tonal palette.
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ROBERT F. KENNEDY INSPIRATION PARK Los Angeles (Koreatown), CA CLIENT City of Los Angeles Los Angeles Unified School District (Jointly-Developed) SIZE 20,000sf public park and memorial COMPLETED 2011
This densely populated, multi-cultural urban area of Los Angeles features several major thoroughfares and many architectural and cultural landmarks, but few parks and open spaces. Gonzalez Goodale Architects and landscape architect designed the highprofile Robert F. Kennedy Inspiration Park on Wilshire Boulevard, the main east-west corridor that bisects Koreatown. Located where the historic Ambassador Hotel once stood, the park is part of the 24-acre academic campus. The design for the one-third acre park was guided by the idea of a spiritual journey honoring the site’s history and its urban context while commemorating Robert F. Kennedy and other Americans who paved the way for democracy and human rights. The park is organized into three main spaces: Inspiration Courtyard, Terrace Gardens and Palm Grove. The design team held a series of extensive, multi-lingual community workshops with the City staff and local residents during the design phases. The collaborative design exercise empowered community members to play a proactive role in shaping their environment. The community process also offered insight on the needs of modern urban denizens and offered them an opportunity to re-imagine their city with more open spaces. C I V I C P R OJ E C T E XPERI ENCE 24
DOWNTOWN MENTAL HEALTH CENTER Downtown Los Angeles, CA CLIENT County of Los Angeles Department of Public Works SIZE 52,000sf tenant improvement with full A/E design and FF&E services. COMPLETED 2015
The Downtown Mental Health Center is a service facility operated by the County of Los Angeles Department of Public Works located in the skid row district. After its conversion from an existing parking garage, Gonzalez Goodale Architect’s primary design challenge was creating interiors with safe and secure yet comforting and supportive space out of a structure comprised of simple concrete slab and column construction . The 52,000sf office and treatment space design opted to reflect its urban setting through the embrace of raw materials and structure while at the same time softening the often times stressful and threatening institutional users experience. The approach allowed mechanical and infrastructural elements to be integrated into the environment in a unassuming and cohesive manner leaving room for effective and efficient use of the limited space . Furnishings and finishes selected provide comfort and support while the programming and user considerations provide clear direction to a space in need of a high degree of order and security. These considerations include signage, color selection, and wayfinding methods which minimize unsupervised patient activities and interactions. C I V I C P R OJ E C T E X PERI ENCE 26
COMMUNITY SENIOR CENTER Calabasas, CA
OWNER City of Calabasas SIZE 28,000 square feet - LEED SILVER Certified Full A/E services including interior design (FF&E); COMPLETED 2016
In anticipation of and to follow the needs of a large, rapidly aging demographic (35%) within their city, Calabasas has initiated efforts to support their vibrant, engaged, and healthy lifestyle through a community services program known as the Savvy Seniors. With the goal of providing a main service facility and meeting place for social interaction, the City Council initiated the development of a free standing Senior Center within the existing Civic Center. The chosen site, of roughly 9000sf, for the new senior center is situated directly to the rear of the library and city hall campus for which Gonzalez Goodale Architects provided the original master plan. Surrounding the site on three sides is a steep hillside which is slated for future restoration as an oak woodland in conjunction with the development of a future passive park on nearly 20 acres. The new senior center will be accessed by a terraced garden and walkway connected to the surrounding civic plaza and facilities – thus transforming what was once an underutilized backside of the campus pass-through into a meaningful social collection point.
COUNCIL CHAMBERS RENOVATION Brea, CA CLIENT City of Brea SIZE Accessibility and AV renovation of council chambers COMPLETED 2016
Upon evaluation of its facilities and infrastructure, the City of Brea found that it’s City Council Chamber was being underutilized due to the technical limitations of outdated audio-visual equipment and the ADA inaccessibility of the audience seating. Gonzalez Goodale Architects was asked to design an extensive ADA and A/V renovation of the Council Chambers transforming it into not only an informative physical space but into a vehicle for television broadcast to its community. Situated in a semi-circle, the chamber floor has been made accessible through the inclusion of a ramp that leads to multiple wheelchair spaces with companion seating. Further considerations were taken to the audio-visual equipment to not only enhance the in-house presentation but to ensure that the television broadcast of meetings are equally informative and beneficial to those who may not be able to attend meetings in person. A once outdated rear-mounted display screen was refreshed with the use of a more efficient projector that ensured high visibility from all vantage points. Similar acoustical obstacles introduced by the orientation of the room were mitigated through reflective and insulating treatments ensuring clear communication within the panel and audience members.
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ALCAZAR CENTRAL OPERATIONS YARD Los Angeles County CLIENT County of Los Angeles Dept of Public Works SIZE 11 Acre campus master plan, county-wide studies COMPLETED 2015
Gonzalez Goodale Architects was asked by the LA County Department of Public Works to produce a Master Plan and Feasibility Study Analysing their existing “Alcazar Campus” near County USC Hospital . The Alcazar Yard is literally centered in the nexus of metropolitan freeways, with the ability to dispatch workers and materials efficiently in any direction to serve the entire County. The scope of this report is an in depth capacity study of the County’s Public Works Yard functions that are currently at the lower and upper Alcazar Yards (11 acres at 1525 Alcazar and 8 acres at 2275 Alcazar). With the current Alcazar yard located in an increasingly urbanizing area, and with the yard facility itself diminishing in durability and contemporary functionality, consolidation has become an increasing County priority. Three planning options were developed from employing the Optimized Program and the Guiding Principles, including phased construction allowing operations at the Alcazar Yards to continue until an entirely new facility can be completed. Incorporating subterranean employee and pool parking in order to free the remainder of the site for operations; each of the three options anticipate a level of finish, sustainability, landscape, and setback appropriate to this important urban context.
MAINTENANCE & OPERATIONS YARD Pomona, CA CLIENT Pomona Department of Water SIZE Conceptual planning and programming of 3.2 acre site, 20,000sf admin and operations buildings , bridging documents for future DesignBuild project COMPLETED 2016
Gonzalez Goodale Architects was heavily engaged with the Pomona Water Department to program and plan a new Operations and Administrative Yard. Through intensive stakeholder engagment, the master plan reflected the following guiding principles: 1. Meet current and future needs in a functional form. 2. Develop proper, safe and convenient operational work flow that fosters efficiency and collaboration. 3. Fulfill City Council expectations in celebrating the yard’s historical character, and in sustainable, energy-efficient, and water-conserving performance. 4. Provide a staff-supportive environment 5. Develop a plan that will be easily supervised and secured 6. Plan for phased construction allowing for continuous, uninterrupted yard operations. 7. Provide a master plan and an implementation process that will make for expedited, economical project delivery. 8. Achieve a balanced architectural expression that is neither excessive nor stingy in quality. 9. Insure optimize performance for every component of the site.
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DIAMOND BAR COMMUNITY CENTER Diamond Bar, CA CLIENT County of Los Angeles / City of Diamond Bar SIZE 22,500 sf Community Center, 25,000 sf Los Angeles County Library (Designed), 500 seat banquet Hall Full A/E services including interior design (FF&E) COMPLETED 2010
The context for this project—Summitridge Park—is atop a rugged bluff, with park and city to the south, and a rugged canyon trail system to the north. One ascends to the site, primarily by car, with the master plan diverting car traffic and parking to the ends of the site, leaving a pair of major facilities at the center, dramatic canyon views from the small park that separates them. While a relatively remote site, the design team was charged with capitalizing on the compelling views to the canyon and to downtown Los Angeles; to provide a facility that both have high patronage and provide rental income (via a 500-seat banquet hall); and to provide a facility design that would richly engage the landscape and make an iconic statement to the city below. Breaking down the architectural components, library, prefunction, banquet hall, senior meeting, teen area, and reception, and stringing them as a series of pavilions in concert with the movement of the land and the canyon edge, the project both responds sensitively to the mountains and provides a warm and dramatic venue for community and culture. Its success is measure by the banquet hall being consistently booked over a year in advance. C I V I C P R OJ E C T E X PERI ENCE 32
DESIGN-BUILD SENIOR CENTER Covina, CA CLIENT City of Covina Pankow Builders (Design-Build Partner) SCOPE 8,500sf senior and community center. Design of 6 acre community park COMPLETED 2019
With a need to replace an existing senior center which was well loved but well past its use, the City of Covina commissioned Gonzalez Goodale Architects to aid in identifying and analyzing City sites for a new facility. Through careful examination City real estate, guiding principles workshops with Senior user groups, and community outreach it was decided the new center would be sited with the same Kelby Park as the original. A new master plan and project criteria were developed to maximize community use of the entire park. Teamed with Design-Build Partners Pankow Builders, our team worked with the City of Covina to develop an effective yet efficient plan which would satisfy the needs of the user-group and the modest budget supplied by a combination of Federal, County, and local dollars. The end result is a facility which supports and celebrates the popular senior programs including ealth and wellness, lunch, and social programs. The overall plan for the entire park includes better access and presence to the community at large with a further emphasis on wellness and civic gathering.
ADAPTIVE RE-USE CITY HALL La Canada Flintridge, CA CLIENT City of La Canada-Flintridge SCOPE Adaptive Re-use of 21,000sf office building into 13,000sf of City Hall space and 7,000sf leasable revenue producing office space COMPLETED 2019
Having outgrown their long leased City Hall location, the City of La Canada made purchase of a vacant office building within a commercial park. Originally a large call center, the building required comprehensive space planning and adaptive re-use to meet the mixed-use needs of the City. Working directly with City staff a new plan was developed which satisfied the following project guiding principles: 1.
Provide a plan and implementation process that will make for Expedited, Economical Project Delivery.
2. Design the City Hall with Community and Civic Resources. 3. Develop a convenient operational work flow that fosters Efficiency and Collaboration and that Enhances City Hall Customer Service. 4. Develop a plan that will have Clear Separation between leasable space and City Staff areas with easily understood controlled access. 5. Achieve a Balanced Architectural Expression that is neither excessive nor stingy in quality and that expresses the civic function of the La Canada Flintridge City Hall. 6. Develop a project that is Sustainable and Responsible in its design. 7. Provide proven/tested A/V technology for Ease of Operation and\ that is adaptable= for future upgrades. 8. Locate Council Chambers on Ground Floor for Direct Access by the Public. American Public Works Society Project of the Year 2019 C I V I C P R OJ E C T E XPERI ENCE 34
SANTA FE DEPOT ADAPTIVE RE-USE & REHABILITATION Azusa, CA CLIENT City of Azusa/METRO SIZE Historic rehabilitation of 2,000sf Santa Fe Depot
Originallly constructed in the late 1800’s, the Azusa Santa Fe Train Depot had stood vacant since the late 80’s. As part of a larger revitilization of the San Gabriel Valley through the 2016 Goldline Extension, METRO and the City of Azusa decided to rehabilitate the structure historically correct and adaptively re-use it as a Cafe’ style transit store, bike and maintenance storage, and civic plaza area to serve the coming lite-rail stop.
COMPLETED Expected 2020
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