Designing Places for People to Thrive
E D U C AT I O N A L PLANNING & DESIGN
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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EDUCATION PROJECTS
ALVERNO HEIGHTS ACADEMY LEARNING TECHNOLOGY CENTER ADAPTIVE RE-USE
GGA Architects has designed new facilities, major facility additions, seismic renovations and remodel projects for over 30 K12 School Districts, Community College Districts, and Universities throughout California. At GGA we understand the need to provide strong educational design leadership when working with academic master-plans and strategic plans translating into design environments that maximize learning potentials. We begin with research and observation to understand a learning community, and collaborate with our clients to develop educational designs that support the best outcomes for educators, students, and communities. Some of our Higer Education projects over the last decade: Caltech
LA Valley College (LACCD)
Millikan Library Adaptive Reuse
Media Arts/Theater, Music and Arts Buildings
Hameetman Student Center
Programming Addition and Renovation
University of La Verne
Pierce College (LACCD)
Campus Center
Campus Master Plan Update
Occidental College Athletic Department Adaptive Reuse Offices Long Beach Community College Educational, Administrative & District Complex Pasadena City College Athletic Complex, including Gymnasium and Stadium LA City College (LACCD) South Gym Renovation
M&O Criteria Documents Criteria Documents Mission College (LACCD) Campus Master Plan Update Parking Structure Criteria Documents Rio Hondo College Lower-Tier Parking Walkway Ventura County Community College District District-wide Athletic Fac. Improv. 3 campuses Camarillo, Ventura, Moorpark
GLASSELL PARK EARLY EDUCATION CENTER LAUSD JOINT USE PROGRAM
Some of our K12 Education projects over the last decade: El Monte City School District:
SE High School & Middle & Continuation School
10 ES Modernizations & Expansions
Belmont No.11 Primary Center
Columbia Elementary School
Walnut Park Elementary School
Portero Elementary School
Garfield High School
Four Growth Projects
Lincoln High School
El Monte Union High School District: Arroyo High School
Solano Elementary School Expansion Franklin Es Expansion
Mountain View High School
Pasadena Unified School District:
Rosemead High School
Longfellow Elementary School
Administrative Headquarters
Allendale Elementary School
Career Technical Education
Blair High School
Maintenance Facility South El Monte Field House La Canada Unified School District La Canada High School Athletic Expansion
La Salle High School: Master Plan, Aquatic Complex Gymnasium, Performing Arts Complex Saugus Union School District:
Los Angeles Unified School District:
Es Expansion Master Plans (3 Campuses)
International Studies Middle School (D-B)
4 Growth Projects
Huntington Park HS Modernization Multi-Campus Hvac Renovations Survey Of Venice and Lincoln High School Complex Flexible Academic Prototype RFK K12 Community Schools Glassell Park Early Education
Somis Union School District: New K-8 Campus S. Pasadena Unified School District: Arroyo Vista Elementary School Marengo Elementary School
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NEW DESIGN-BUILD MIDDLE SCHOOL South Gate, CA
Client: Los Angeles Unified School District Scope: 4 acre, 50,000sf, new middle school with joint-use gymnasium/auditorium and central quad
The International Studies Middle School was a result of intensive Design-Build team effort in competition for what was ultimately the winning design. While the architectural form is shaped by sustainable considerations, there is, in this site’s case, a happy correspondence between sustainability and the civic expression of the school.
Completed: 2019 The design reflects the middle school age cohort with a building character that is light, free-spirited, and colorful, combining minimal concrete block with glass; crisp, smooth-finished painted plaster; metal trim; and a bright-orange expression of the building’s steel structure. In combination with the welcoming frontal glass and the network of social spaces, this material and formal aesthetic will provide a welcoming setting for students, teachers, and community alike.
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NEW DESIGN-BUILD MIDDLE SCHOOL South Gate, CA
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CALTECH STUDENT CENTER
(Integrated Project Delivery IPD)
Pasadena, CA Client: Caltech Scope: 25,000sf student
center including multipurpose space, performance rehearsal hall, and student club spaces. (including full FF&E) Estimate/final Cost:
$14.5M/$14.5M (stipulated sum) Duration of project:
2015-Spring 2019
The new student center serves to activate an underused portion of the campus into a social hub for students and faculty. While respecting the historically significant context of the campus and the original design of the center, the renovation will focus on maximizing open gathering space, and minimizing impact on outdoor spaces. The project also aimed to maximize collaboration and trust through its Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) method - a first for the campus. Guiding Principals for the Hameetman Center renovation are: • Provide an interior/exterior environment that facilitates collaboration for all members of the Caltech community • Engage and connect the interior functions of the building with all four exterior sides in a way that activates campus life • Provide an effective design that will meet the programmed needs and is appropriate for intended uses • Design and construct a facility to maximize the quality of all components within the given project budget • Incorporate elements / materials / systems that minimizes total cost of ownership (TCO)
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CALTECH STUDENT CENTER Pasadena, CA
(Integrated Project Delivery IPD)
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ROBERT F. KENNEDY COMMUNITY SCHOOLS
AND INSPIRATION PARK
Los Angeles Unified School District / City of Los Angeles
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RFK COMMUNITY SCHOOLS K-12 CAMPUS Mid-Wilshire (Koreatown) Los Angeles, CA
Client: Los Angeles Unified School District Scope: 522,410 sf 4624 students, Multiple libraries, small learning centers, multipurpose and technology centers, auditorium, olympic pool, joint-use playfields,
The context for this project is the 24 acre site of the former Ambassador Hotel in the Mid-Wilshire District of Los Angeles. The programmatic context was LAUSD’s charge to provide a genuine community school in a longunder-served area. It is a first instance of an integrated District K-12 campus, internally de-centralized by discrete Small Learning Communities. A summary of major challenges for this project included: • Housing a large program on a small site with dramatic topography, while still achieving discrete school identities and generous open space; • Acknowledging history without sacrificing programmatic needs; • Engaging an intensely urban condition without sacrificing safety; • Exceeding CHPS sustainability requirements. The architectural and cultural history of the site is reflected in interpretive reconstructions of the Cocoanut Grove; the Embassy Ballroom, and the north wing of the Hotel (re-stated as a glassy wall of classrooms facing Wilshire); in the construction of linear urban park, dedicated to the social-justice work of RFK and others, lining Wilshire; in a highly integrated public art program addressing cultural and political history on the site; and, finally, in a campus layout that reflects the skeleton of the old Hotel, albeit, in a way that is far more open to the surrounding urban fabric.
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MCKINLEY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL South Los Angeles, CA
Client: Los Angeles Unified School District Scope: Comprehensive modernization - new classroom building, administration building, kindergarten village, and multipurpose room.
Utilizing the collaborative Design-Build delivery method, the Kemp Bros. Construction/GGA team partnered with the District to revitilize a nearly 100 year old elementary campus impacted by decades of urban exposure and aging, inadequate educational spaces. With the re-envisioning of McKinley Avenue Elementary School through new construction and modernization of existing structures, the school grounds and landscape will be upgraded to present to the student, staff and overall community a fully integrated and enhanced learning environment for the 21st Century. Modernization scope of work includes removal and replacement of the existing Administration/Classroom Building that would otherwise require cost-prohibitive seismic retrofit, and removal of existing relocatable buildings. Long suffering from lack of shade and green space, a new exterior green belt surrounds the campus and introduces landscape back into the surrounding neighborhood, while the interior grounds and playground space create a cohesive fabric that underlies and unifies the entire campus. The exterior areas support an educational setting by reintroducing “green� spaces back into the campus for flexible outdoor learning spaces and drought-tolerant planted areas.
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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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SPECIAL NEEDS CAMPUS EXPANSION Pasadena, CA Client: Villa Esperanza Services Scope: Approved campus master plan. Phase 1: New 10 classroom building with multipurpose room and central courtyard
The approximately 30,000 square feet of current building area is virtually all one-story and is highly impacted on a 62,000 square foot site that also includes parking. Institutional planning goals included: To provide an analysis of problems and opportunities at the 2060 Villa Street site; to develop a facility space program on which to envision site improvements; and to develop a master plan, phasing plan, and character sketches that communicate the future environment; Address the limited and crowded outdoor play. After measuring program needs for both facility and parking against the capacity of the current physical plant, it was determined that a virtually all-new physical plant will need to be developed, focusing on a higher density use of the site, but also on opening up usable play area for the school at the center of the site. Two distinct zones are created: A mixed-use 2-story parking/administration building to the west and a 1-story school focused around a series of courtyards on the east. Phase 1 was recently completed providing the campus a new 10-classroom building with multi-purpose room and courtyard.
HISTORIC ELEMENTARY CAMPUS EXPANSION Los Angeles, CA Client: Los Angeles Unified School District Scope: New 2-story classroom building, subterranean parking, increased and upgraded play space, and new food service building.
Set within a historic and sensitive neighborhood contextin Los Feliz, the need for new permanent classrooms at Franklin Elementary was balanced with the need for an inspirational and functional educational environment. Planning and design included the incorporation of a new, two-and-a-half story classroom building is sited on the northeast corner of the existing campus. The new building houses four kindergarten classrooms, nine primary classrooms, and supporting functions (teacher work room, project room, restrooms, and utility spaces) on top of a partially subterranean parking structure. The architecture of the new classroom building is broken into three main massing components: The “Bench” is the largest component and is comprised of the two-story northern classroom wing and the entirety of the partially subterranean parking garage. The Bench element is finished primarily with plaster and glazing. The “Box” is the second classroom component, a perched mass along the second floor of the south elevation, and is articulated and emphasized by the use of a patterned fiber cement panel system. Finally, the “Ribbon” is the circulation and activity space that connects these program spaces together, meandering along the two floors and to the playground below
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ALVERNO LEARNING TECHNOLOGY CENTER Sierra Madre, CA Client: Alverno Heights Academy High School Scope: 4,200sf library adaptive re-use to learning and technology center
Located along the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, Alverno High School is home to the historic Villa de Sol D’Oro, and over 20 Coast Live Oaks. Through the creation of a master plan, the project goals were to develop and improve the campus with its existing historical fabric; provide an enclosed gathering space; and design facilities that advance educational opportunities. We started these educational opportunity advancements with modernization work with a renovation of the existing library into a technology learning center (TLC). The project consisted of an adaptive re-use of the 1960’s traditional library lacking in technology, natural lighting, and generally up-to-date finishes. A complete systems, space, and furniture renovation now provides the campus with; flexible classroom spaces; vibrant study and social spaces; and a key space for large gatherings and student recruitment.
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ARROYO HIGH SCHOOL MODERNIZATION Rosemead, CA
Client: El Monte Union High School District Scope: 18 Classrooms Renovation of 27-acre campus circulation and landscape;
The existing campus is an early 1960’s predominately one-story ‘finger plan’ campus, with an architecture of brick veneer and plaster buildings. The landscape of the central campus has reached significant maturity. The new classroom building responded to a lack of campus social space with U-shaped courtyard, addressing the entry of the existing library. Ringed by a 2-story arcade, with sculptural stairs on each end, this courtyard will be consistently activated by student circulation. The arcade piers and stair-walls reprise the brick architecture of the campus without mimicking it.
Renovation of several classrooms for the Career Technology Education; Site Utility and Accessiblity Upgrades
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ROSEMEAD HIGH SCHOOL MODERNIZATION Rosemead, CA
Client: El Monte Union High School District Scope: 18 Classrooms Renovation of 27-acre campus circulation and landscape; Renovation of several classrooms for the Career Technology Education; Site Utility and Accessiblity Upgrades
The context was an aging campus that lacked coherence and usable central social space. A diverse program included renovation and addition to the campus library, a new classroom complex, renovated administrative offices, and re-design of covered circulation and open space throughout the campus In using new building form, in concert with re-shaped campus circulation routes and judicious use of mature landscape, we were able to create a far more socially cohesive campus, centered on a re-designed main quad. Philosophically, virtually all outdoor campus space have become usable social space. The buildings are both contextual with the original modernist campus, and bold/contemporary in their fresh use of color accent.
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SOLANO ELEMENTARY REDEVELOPMENT Los Angeles, CA
Client: Los Angeles Unified School District Scope: 9,000sf 2-story classroom building addition, including new administration area City of LA site work, including street vacation to create neighborhood pedestrian connection
A modern, simple box expression will become the new identity for the Solano School campus. This simple box expression creates a strong contrast to the existing mission-style architecture and will become a benchmark for the new era of the modern school to the campus. The main facade is also contrasted with different finishes, such as exposed concrete masonry units at the base and two different grades of plaster finished in dash texture and smooth texture at the top. On the same facade, a random punch-opening window system with overhangs will also enhance the contrast expression toward the array window pattern along the existing building facade. A contemporary, dynamic, playful, horizontal window mullion pattern has been introduced along the northwest facade, contrasted with a series of perforated metal panels placed vertically next to each window opening.
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COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY EXPANSION El Monte, CA
Client: El Monte City School District Scope : 46,700 square foot classroom building. 14,100 square foot multi-purpose building with ampitheater
Though not historic, both the planning and the architecture of the original campus were examples of neo-traditional, clean design. The school bounds El Monte’s civic and judicial center. With expansion from an elementary school to include a middle school, there came the need to provide middle school classrooms and multipurpose fitness and recreational programs without significantly disturbing either the patterns of use or the architecture of the new campus. Though the mass of both buildings was significant, and 2-story in height, the strategy was to locate them along the outer edges of the campus and preserve the open space core. Sustainability was addressed by outdoor circulation, extensive sun-shading, recycled materials, and the use of insulated translucent sky-lighting.
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GLASSELL PARK EARLY EDUCATION CENTER Glassell Park, CA
Client: Los Angeles Unified School District Scope : 13,000 square foot early education center; 63,000 square foot multi-family residential component and shared parking structure, offices, and community spaces.
Gonzalez Goodale Architects, in association with The Los Angeles Community Design Center, designed a joint-use community project that brings together 45 family units with an adjacent 13,322-squarefoot education center for both pre-school and school-age students, and provides seven classrooms, faculty and staff offices, and two private outdoor play yards and community educational gardens. This pioneering joint-use development is the first undertaken by the Los Angeles Unified School District. Uniting the two distinct uses is a 1,200-square-foot teacher education facility/community room built on the housing portion of the property. It is available for teachers and staff during school hours and to residents for after school and evening activities.
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NEW URBAN LA ELEMENTARY CAMPUS Los Angeles, CA (Koreatown) Client: Los Angeles Unified School District Scope: 95,000sf campus library, small learning centers, multipurpose and technology centers, 1,100 students
This site sits at the southwest corner of an overall 24 acre campus, formerly the site of the Ambassador Hotel. The K-5 portion of the project, comprised of two pilot schools, occupies the southwest corner of the campus, and aligns with 8th Street. A summary of major challenges for this project includes: •
Re-engaging the site topography with the City along 8th Street
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Achieving density, program diversity, joint use, and student safety in the city-center with limited land
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By responding directly to the urban grid, and providing two distinct interior courtyards, the campus both secures its grounds and achieves separate internal identity for its two pilot schools.
Another LAUSD ‘first’ is a campus-wide public art program that matured through close coordination between artists and architect. The K-5 public art installations pay homage to the site’s history, and to its place in culture, politics, and the performing arts. A central ‘floor mural’ dominates the playground’s plan view, and a 100-foot wall mural encloses one of the playground’s ends, creating a rich presence of art in the students’ everyday lives.
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HUNTINGTON PARK HIGH SCHOOL MODERNization Huntington Park, CA
Client: Los Angeles Unified School District Scope: 23 acre campus renovation, built 19251970’s Current work involves design and implementation of 4 new buildings, including 2 classroom buildings, gymnasium and pool structure. Remainder of campus upgrades will consist of substantial remodelling of existing building stock and complete site re-design.
Built in 1935, the aging Huntington Park High School campus fell within the district’s top ten list of schools most in need of comprehensive modernization. The master planning goals included replacing all relocatables with permanent two-story classroom buildings so that instructional spaces are in alignment with current standards and to free up valuable outdoor areas. Also identified was providing seismic upgrades if needed to at least four campus buildings and modernize remaining permanent buildings, and replace the indoor swimming pool and reconfigure the Gym locker rooms and staff spaces. Working with campus and facilities stakeholders, we analyzed the site and conceptual plans to update the master plan. Included were sitewide design options for replacement of temporary classrooms and complexes in need of an unreasonable amount of repair.
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HIGH SCHOOL COMPETITION AQUATICS CENTER La Canada Flintridge, CA CLIENT: Los Angeles Unified School District SCOPE: New 40m competition pool with support buildings and adaptive re-use of existing pools into play courts.
Working closely with District, Program Management, campus, City, and community leadership, GGA balanced the needs of multiple stakeholders to master plan and design a new olympic size competition pool. Working carefully not to effect the surrounding joint-use baseball fields or school campus operations, a compromise was made to install a 40 meter pool with new locker rooms and event support spaces. The existing pool will be filled and leveled creating new outdoor athletics courts which better engage and energize the existing campus. Community concerns of traffic and noise were collected and meaningfully mitigated through a series of outreach events which satisfied the needs of all members of this highly celebrated campus community.
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NEW K-8 JOINT-USE STEAM CAMPUS Somis, CA
Client: Somis Union School District Scope: 15 Acre site, 475 students, joint-use multipurpose room, on campus agricultural land, “Farm to School” cirriculum
Faced with aging and outdated facilities, an existing site declared unsafe by the State, and the desire to expand their curriculum to better represent their surrounding community, the Somis Union School District asked Gonzalez Goodale Architects to design and build a brand new K-8 school campus. The new campus will replace the current nearby school which has served as a central community meeting place for over 100 years. Along with Ventura-based Main Street Architects + Planners, Gonzalez Goodale has engaged the predominantly agricultural community to integrate a “Farm to School” curriculum into the new facilities. In addition to a 21st Century learning environment, the proposed design will give students access to outdoor learning areas, gardens, and instructional kitchens which will serve the food grown on campus.
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ULV CAMPUS CENTER La Verne, CA The cultural goals for this project were emphatically clear: It was to serve as an introduction to campus, a mixing chamber, and an ongoing vehicle to recruit and retain students, faculty, and staff. These goals were achieved in the built outcome. The challenges of an extremely long, narrow site were turned to advantage in the design of the building, which creates an interwoven, dense functional cross-section, spatially integrating entry hall, 2-story cafe, 2nd floor academic balcony, grand stairs, offices, and a 3rd floor conference pre-function terrace. This integrated spatial tableaux is continuously day-lit by an all-glass north-facing wall.
Client: University of La Verne Role of the firm: Prime Estimate/final Cost:
$18M/$18.5M
Duration of project: 2009-2011
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CALTECH MILLIKAN HALL ADAPTIVE RE-USE Pasadena, CA
Client: Caltech
In an effort to create more on-campus office space, Caltech proposed to repurpose one of its aging library facilities, Millikan Hall, into converted office space.
Role of the firm: Prime
Guiding Principals for the Caltech Department of Institute Relations Office Programming and Interior Renovation Project:
Estimate/final Cost: $1.28M/$1.27M
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Collaboration is the most critical aspect of the work of the Institute, and the environment - in terms of programming, planning, and character - should enhance and stimulate collaborative team interactions.
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A chief charge of the project is to balance the need for office privacy (both acoustic and visual) against the desirability to maximize both daylight and views throughout both floors.
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Specifically, the views north to the mountains should be embraced.
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Durability in performance of systems and materials is critical due to the challenges of obtaining funding for ongoing, routine maintenance of buildings.
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ADA accessibility needs to be addressed per floor.
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Maximize flexibility for future renovations.
Completion of project: 2015
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OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE HISTORIC RENOVATION Los Angeles, CA
Client: Occidental College
Originally designed in the 1930’s by Myrun Hunt as a locker room and pool house for the adjacent aquatic center, the current Athletics Department building has been repurposed and reconfigured several times. Currently, the historic structure is a multi-decade mix of now undesirable finishes and environmental conditions including drop ceiling, bulky casework, cramped private offices, and for most - little to no access to natural light.
Role of the firm: Prime Estimate/final Cost: $870K Duration of project: 2016-Under Construction
With a need to develop the space within a tight budget and schedule constraint, the approach was taken to pull back the layers and leave the original character and volume of the building exposed. The celebration of details and structure form a dynamic but efficient work environment which fosters collaboration and functions as a recruitment tool for potential college applicants. Other guiding principles to the renovation included: •
Develop an environment that Communicates the Vibrant Energy of the Department through physical openness and transparency.
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Form a Front Porch to the Campus, with the project acting as an ambassador to the campus.
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Provide for a large Major Multi-Functional Space that facilitates a wide range of uses
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LA SALLE CAMPUS EXPANSION MASTER PLAN Pasadena, CA
Client: La Salle High School Scope: City approved full campus master plan
Along with Design-Build partners Pankow Builders, Gonzalez Goodale provided master planning and architectural design services for a new performing arts and athletic facilities and La Salle High School in the San Gabriel Valley. The implementation of the master plan, including final design and construction of the performing arts complex, and new athletic facilities, including gymnasium, swimming pool and athletic fields will occur over a ten year period. The performing arts complex component of this project includes a 300 seat theatre with a mezzanine level, choral and music rooms, classrooms, art and dance studios, box office, gallery, scene shop and prop storage, and offices. The project will greatly enhance La Salle High School’s regional performing arts program, the only one of its kind in the San Gabriel Valley. Following City of Pasadena Master Plan Approval, Phase 1 athletics upgrades were recently completed.
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HIGH POINT ACADEMY EXPANSION MASTER PLAN Altadena, CA
Client: High Point Academy Scope: Campus master planning & programming aligning with strategic plans, phased build-out plan
Building on the momentum of their Strategic Plan, Gonzalez Goodale Architects worked with the Altadena based K-8 school High Point Academy to modernize and maxmize their campus building and educational program. With an institutional value of ‘Awakening the JOY of Learning’ special attention was paid to spaces which could foster innovative and collaborative educational environments while also maintaining their ability to recruit and enroll at their current value-propositioned tuition. In reorganizing classroom spaces and locations, a strong identity is formed within grade levels by focusing on the specific needs of age specific educational needs. At the same time, new space was prioritized and carved out for teacher and support staff. In developing a build-out plan which aligned with the schools long-range plan, new and reimagined spaces included an adaptive re-use maker-space, a relocated and renovated library, expanded administrative offices, a new multi-purpose meeting hall, and a new ‘Heart of Campus’ central quad connecting all grade levels to nature and student community. E D U C AT I O N A L C A M P U S P L A N N I N G & D E S I G N
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Major Renovation and Seismic Upgrades
LACCD Gymnasium Renovation
CLIENT: Los Angeles Community College District; LA City College SCOPE: 29,500 sf seismic, finishes, and systems renovation The project site is located along the western edge of the Los Angeles City College campus. With brick-clad neighbors to the north and south, the challenge of the external renovation was to bring this originally utilitarian building more in context with the campus aesthetic, within a highly limited budget. Internally, the migration of existing locker rooms to a new gymnasium building, created an opportunity to provide additional dance and exercise space within the South Gym, requiring, at the same time, seismic upgrades, new air conditioning, ADA accessibility, and comprehensive improvement of the building’s systems and finishes. Internally, the building was re-configured to both maximize dance/studio/ exercise space and to improve circulation clarity and way-finding. In terms of building finishes, the design took the sustainable strategy of stripping-off, rather than laying on new finishes - with an emphasis on exposed concrete floors and exposed concrete structure, with a minimal overlay of servicing ducts and acoustically absorptive clouds. Enlivening the interior passageways are side-lit, full-height wall panel line-drawings of student dance, aerobic, and yoga movements. Externally, the screening for this roof-top air conditioning is used as a continuous perforated metal ‘mask’, that wraps down over the major building entries on east and west, and establishes a stronger entry identity for the building. In response to the brick context of the campus, the building employs a simple running horizontal painted color collage that establishes a color harmony with its neighbors.
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DISTRICT-WIDE ATHLETICS FACILTIES UPGRADES
VENTURA, OXNARD, AND MOORPARK COLLEGE
CLIENT: Ventura Community College District SCOPE: Track and Field; 3,000-seat grandstand and press-box; Entry plaza with restrooms and concessions; Auxiliary field sports field improvements; ADA and fire/life safety upgrades to main gymnasium and Wellness Center support components. VENTURA COLLEGE Track and field area 200,000 sf, plaza building (restroom/concession) 3,000sf, bleacher size 3,000 seats. New sports stadium complex with all weather running track, synthetic playing field, grandstand, and main entrance plaza with concession and restroom buildings. Renovation of Athletic Event Center, small gymnasium, tennis complex, aquatic center, and classrooms. Existing field renovations include baseball stadium and softball stadium. OXNARD COLLEGE Track and field area 175,000sf, plaza building (restroom/concession) 2,000 sf, bleacher size 2,800 seats. New sports stadium complex with all weather running track, natural playing field, grandstand, and main entrance plaza with concession and restroom buildings. Construction of new softball field, soccer fields (3), tennis courts (10), and walking/running par course that winds throughout the campus. Renovation of existing baseball stadium. Renovation of existing locker rooms, training room, and classrooms. MOORPARK COLLEGE Track and field area 170,000 sf construction of all weather running track, synthetic playing field, and main entrance plaza with concession and restroom buildings at the existing stadium. E D U C AT I O N A L C A M P U S P L A N N I N G & D E S I G N
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District Maintenance Facility & Warehouse S. El Monte, CA
Client: El Monte Union High School District
The project is sited on a triangular plot near the Whittier Narrows on an outer corner of the South El Monte High School campus, adjacent to U.S. 60. Two special challenges of this project were the triangular geometry and a District imperative to improve sustainability in design and operations. Through careful study of bus/truck turning movement templates, a highly operational scheme configured the buildings in an “L�, with the Campus Facility at the knuckle, facing outwards towards the school. The District Maintenance Facility and the Warehouse face in, forming a triangular bus and storage yard that is secured from the school by the buildings. Sustainable design moves such as day-lighting, natural ventilation, cool roofs are supplemented with site-specific operational moves like facing workshop openings to the northeast, where yard crew can work in open bays without the incursion of direct sunlight.
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HVAC, Technology, & Accessibility Modernizations Various, Los Angeles, CA
Client: Los Angeles Unified School District Scope: Mechanical renovations and technology/ ADA upgrades to historically significant campuses.
Totalling five campuses now, Gonzalez Goodale Architects has provided the District with on-going comprehensive HVAC and Technology design services as part of a larger modernization campaign. Along with MEP engineers, the team extensively evaluated and prepared specifications including upgrades and replacement of fresh-air intake and exhaust fans and ductwork, replacement of boilers and hot water pumps, fire supression units for the kitchen hoods, and replacement/addition of HVAC condensing units, and built-in central Building Management System (BMS) to maintain efficiency and lifetime cycle costs. Of all the concurrent renovations Gonzalez Goodale Architects the Van Nuys Elementary School campus was the most extensive. As another historically significant complex, the structures needed a sensitive approach to limit impact on the existing structures that were under-supported for modern equipment. With extensive strengthening being fitted for rooftop equiptment support, an interim housing plan was put in place to limit exposure to students and disruption of class schedules.
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Serving the Athletic Community
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El Monte Union High School District
S. El Monte HS Field House and Snack Bar
CLIENT: El Monte Union High School District SCOPE: 3,000sf snack bar, commercial kitchen, restroom building, locker rooms
Gonzalez Goodale Architect has been engaged with the El Monte Union High School District to develop the athletics fields and service buildings at S. El Monte High School. The project presented a number of particularly difficult design challenges in meeting requirements for being within a federal army corps of engineers flood channel, and the need to provide independent utilities to each the field house and snack bar. The final program includes a 3,000sf snack bar with commercial serving kitchen and permanent bathrooms, and a field house with coaching spaces and locker rooms. The project has been an overwhelming success with the community in serving the High School’s highly popular football and track program.
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