K12 E D U C AT I O N
Educat i o n a l Pl a n n i n g & D e s i gn FALL 2016
Gonzalez Goodale Architects
Firm Introduction Gonzalez Goodale Architects was established in 1980 on the principle of improving the public environment through design excellence and sensitive client service. On its 36th anniversary, the studio is led in partnership by David Goodale, AIA, LEED AP, Design Principal; Principals Ali Barar, AIA, Harry Drake AIA, CASp, and Armando Gonzalez, FAIA, its Founding Partner; . Today the studio maintains a unique team-based working culture and a commitment to the positive and enlivening impact that architecture can have on society. With a long standing commitment to quality assurance and sustainability, the firm has ten licensed Architects, seven LEED APs, two CASp accredited professionals, and a well rounded staff of dedicated associates and support in the office. Located in Old Pasadena, Gonzalez Goodale Architects occupies a building of its own design. Through its integration into Pasadena’s pedestrian alleyways, its usable urban landscaping, public art, and day-lit studios, the building reflects the firm’s philosophy of design for the functional and poetic enrichment of the public life. Since its founding, we have served diverse public, private, non-profit, and institutional clients with an interactive, creative design process. As a result, the firm has garnered multiple repeat commissions by clients and institutions, has maintained an extended string of design awards, and accumulated a portfolio of built quality projects that have become regional architectural benchmarks. Founded on our client’s guiding principles, our design solutions are grounded in continual communication with client groups, detailed cost estimates at every phase, analysis of life-cycle costs and wholistic sustainable design measures, continual coordination with sub-consultants, and progress scheduling to keep the project on track. We have found that our transparent and interactive project management methodologies lead to a sense of partnership, trust and positive team spirit, key elements to the most successful projects. The unique nature of each of these projects is a direct outcome of the nature or our client, their site, and their community.
Ad a p t a b l e M o d u l a r C l a s s ro o m B u i l d i n g Pro to t y p e (d e s i g n) G o n z a l e z G o o d a l e A rc h i te c t s
Gonzalez Goodale Architects
Exchange and Socialization
A principal motivation in our commitment to public education and institutional architecture is the opportunity to shape the communal spaces between and around buildings.
In this regard, almost every project we have designed embodies the concept of campus and of active human exchange and socialization, at all levels of scale and intimacy.
It is in these spaces that the culture and character of an institution is reflected, given a chance to breathe, and through public dialogue and use of the space, to continue to evolve into the future.
At the same time, these projects demonstrate a wide variability based on the character and values of an institution and its program aims, as well as the particular nature, geometry, and constraints of each site.
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Campus-Wide Renovations and Expansion
El Monte Union High School District
Rosemead High School
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. The challenge was to effect the diverse program of additions and renovations in a way that would both provide enhanced, technologically equipped function, and re-shape the social spaces of the campus at the same time. 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 should – and will – 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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Campus-Wide Renovations and Expansion
El Monte Union High School District
Arroyo High School
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. As many ‘finger plan’ campuses, Arroyo High School lacked cohesive outdoor social spaces, with the exception of its central quad area, which was spacious and well-treed, albeit not conducive to student gathering. The architecture was generally without accent and the interiors without adequate natural light. 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. The CTE projects each engaged career-specific technologies. These additions, along with new landscape design, elevated the character of the campus to a collegiate level.
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Leveraging S c a rce R e s o u rce s : J o i nt- Us e Pu b l i c Fa c i lities
Lo s An g e l e s U n i f i e d S c h o o l D i s t r i c t
G l a s s e l l Pa r k E a r l y Ed u c at i o n Center
13,000 square foot early education center; 63,000 square foot multi-family residential component (48 units) 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-square-foot 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. The natural topography is further utilized to create a terraced grade change between the ECEC open space and the housing open space, making them separate from each other while still maximizing perceived openness at the center of both projects. 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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Historic Modern Expression
Los Angeles Unified School District
Solano Avenue Redevelopment
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 missionstyle 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. These vertical perforated metal panels will function as the solar control devices for western daylight into the classrooms.
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Modernization and Expansion
El Monte City School District
Columbia Elementary School
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 multi-purpose 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. By shaping both buildings in a linear fashion, the design turned scale to an advantage, and developed new enclosing ’walls’ for the campus. The vertical detail echoes existing architecture and intensifies its rhythms to a more civic dignity. Sustainability was addressed by outdoor circulation, extensive sun-shading, recycled materials, and the use of insulated translucent sky-lighting.
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K-12 Campus and Joint-Use Facilities
Los Angeles Unified School District
R o b e r t F. K e n n e d y C o m m u n i t y S c h o o l s
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 long-under-served area. It is a first instance of an integrated District K-12 campus, internally de-centralized by discrete Small Learning Communities.
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K-5 Campus and Joint-Use Library
Los Angeles Unified School District
R o b e r t F. K e n n e d y C o m m u n i t y S c h o o l s
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The Heart of the Community
Somis Union School District
New K-8 Campus Plan
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. To continue the tradition of community involvement, a multi-purpose ‘grange hall’ has been proposed to serve as a new hub and resource for the District as it continues into its second century.
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Sustainability and Civic Expression
Los Angeles Unified School District
International Studies Learning Center Middle School
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. 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, smoothfinished 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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B ox M odul e : B a s i c B u i l d i n g B l o c k
Lab and Collaborative, Project-based Learning Module
Administrative and Collaborative Multi-purpose Module
Flexible Classroom and Classroom Module
Los An g e l e s U n i f i e d S c h o o l D i s t r i c t Wi n n i n g Co m p et i t i o n E nt r y
Ad a p t a b l e M o d u l a r C l a s s ro o m B u i l d i n g Protot ype
The flexible re-purposable protoype building was the result of two-phase competition for which Gonzalez Goodale Architects was selected as one of two winners. This competition was spurred by a range of compelling District needs, including needs to: add facilities to its existing campuses; provide facilities for charter school occupancy; challenge obsolete design standards; respond to sustainable imperatives; build with life cycle economies; respond to emerging pedagogies; and provide more easily repurposable facilities. The orthogonal nature of a box remains the most flexible, internally repurposable, and expandable geometry. But, for education, there are compelling reasons to consider a ‘box module’ that has highly defined limits of scale: width, length, and height. This led us to envision a modestly scaled module as the basic building block of a small school. Designated as a “Shell Module,” (after shell-and- core construction), this block has the scalar intimacy of a pavilion, the flexible orthogonal footprint of a box, with roof and ceilings that both gather light and provide a quality of diversity and spatial generosity.
Flexible Classroom and Library Module
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Urban Infill Development
El Monte Union High School District
Distrct Offices and Board Room
Located at the civic heart of El Monte, across from the City Hall and the County Court Building, but also sandwiched between two commercial uses, this project has both civic and commercial opportunities, and will be an important infilling of the frontage along Valley Boulevard. Primarily a flexible office building for the District’s administrative functions on the upper two floors, the ground floor needs to enliven Valley Boulevard, house a Board Room with rich multi-purpose adaptability, receive visitors from both the street and the rear parking area, and provide lunch and technology functions that serve the entire building. To enliven the street, the infill building abuts the Valley Boulevard sidewalk with a ‘proscenium’ that shelters an outdoor café with leasable frontage continuously along the sidewalk. Addressing front and rear access, a side-mounted pedestrian ‘alley’ connects street to rear parking, brings daylight into the ‘third side’ of the building, and provides a pedestrian place complete with a living/green wall along its length. The twenty foot high first floor allows a gracious ceiling for retail and Board functions, and the Board Room allows multiple flexible divisions.
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San Diego Adaptive Re-Use
Urban Discover y Academy
Urban Discovery Academy Charter School
This project addresses the emerging need to customize existing buildings of all kinds to accommodate charter school campuses. The Academy is currently housed as a forlease tenant in a mid-rise medical office building in downtown San Diego, with limited assembly area and outdoor play spaces. We were charged with the development of a facility space program for the school’s growth, with a parallel study of how to better utilize the current leased building and site. In the words of its Board President, “The Urban Discovery Academy is recognized for our ‘smartness,’ not flashiness of our curriculum.” It is a curriculum based on pedagogical flexibility. The desire was to have this same progressive vision evident and expressed in the renovation of its campus environment. Two keys to transforming the existing medical office building into a more effective educational environment: •
The investigation and discovery that existing columns currently obstructing classrooms were unused plumbing shafts, allowing the internal floor space to be freed up; and
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The transformation of the surface convenience parking courtyard into an academic quad.
This new lower courtyard accommodates an expanded, iconic library that will bring new identity to the Academy, and a rich expansion of landscapes, gardens for learning, and play yards.
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Joint-Use Athletic Facilities and R esources
YMCA
Westside Family YMC A
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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Major Renovation and Seismic Upgrades:
Los Angeles Community College District
South Gymnasium Renovation
The project site is located along the western edge of the Los Angeles Community 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.
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Athletics & Wellness Center
Pasadena City College
Athletics & Fitness Complex
This athletic complex is located on the campus of Pasadena City College and houses a gymnasium, sports medicine center, weight room, new stadium, and athletic field. The design team was tasked with designing a stadium and gymnasium complex that represents the College’s athletic department, serves as a meaningful space for sporting events and brings together student and faculty functions in one facility. The physical education facility houses a gymnasium with three basketball courts, convertible to seven volleyball courts; a sports medicine center for the prevention and treatment of sports injuries; a weight room with state-of-the-art training equipment; locker rooms; and faculty offices and classrooms. A “wall of fame” in the west lobby pays tribute to past star athletes at the College.
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Distr ic t-Wide Physical Education Facilties Upgrades
Ventura County Community College District
Ve n t u r a , O x n a r d , a n d M o o r p a r k C o l l e g e
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.
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Joint-Use At h l e t i c a n d R e c re at i o n Fa c i l i t y
Com m u n i t y D e ve l o p m e nt Co m m i s s i o n o f Lo s An g e l e s Co u nt y
R ow l a n d H e i g ht s Co m m u n i t y Center
This 15,000 square foot Community Center with a major performance/banquet hall, major active multi-purpose room, and multiple smaller, flexible activity rooms is set in Rowland Heights, a richly diverse community with Chinese, Latino, and Caucasian populations. Through a series of widely attended community meetings, the Communities’ guiding principle emerged: Engender social cultural and generational engagement between diverse user groups in its public/circulation spaces, and should make all of its activity spaces inviting to all ages and cultures. In their unprecedented community process, the citizens were emphatic in wanting to both experience and express a new level of social discovery and unity in the character of their Community Center. The dual, schismatic statement of the facility, and its knitting together around an elliptical court, (the ‘no-build’ territory under the power line), is a direct reflection of both the diversity of the community and its aspirations for increased synthesis. This is also embodied in the building form, which rises in volume and in cantilevered roof form to encompass the elliptical court.
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