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Sempra Energy Downtown Headquarters

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Location: San Diego, CA, USA
Size: .6 Acres
Partners: Carrier Johnson Architects
Client: SDG&E
Budget: N/A
Completed: 2015

About the Project

landLAB is collaborating with Carrier Johnson on the new Sempra Energy headquarters located prominently in downtown San Diego in the ballpark district. The northeastern corner of the site at 8th and Island will be an open urban plaza with fixed seating and an enclosed dining plaza adjacent to the interior dining which will be set back from the street and surrounded by lush shade tolerant planting. A battered concrete planter along 8th avenue will help reconcile the grade change as well as integrate with the interior architecture. The south plaza will be located mid-block on 8th Avenue between the new tower and the existing historic Fire Station to remain. The focal point of the plaza will be a battered, lit water wall centered on the lobby and adjacent pre function space providing a seamless interior-exterior space. The water wall will be flanked on both sides by a continuous battered living wall creating a lush vertical backdrop to the space. The site design incorporates all of the buildings’ storm water into on-structure bioswale planters that serve a dual function of integrated storm water retention, and screen planting for the outdoor spaces.

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North Plaza Plan Enlargement

South Plaza Plan Enlargement

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Qualcomm Pacific Center Corporate Campus

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Awards: ASLA SD Honor Award 2016
LEED Rating: Gold certified
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
Size: 23 Acres
Partners: BNIM Architects
Client: Qualcomm
Budget: N/A
Completed: 2015

About the Project

BNIM Architects and landLAB are collaborating on the Qualcomm Pacific Center Campus located in San Diego, California. The master plan focuses on the insertion of two new buildings into the existing campus. One new office building and a mixed-use conference, dining, wellness and organic garden, inclusive of a regulation sized soccer field, are being integrated into the existing 9.4 acre campus. The AY building’s interior courtyard features an architectural bioswale that is fed by storm water from the building’s roof drains. The design also incorporates multiple breakout spaces encompassed by native San Diego landscape. Building AZ utilizes green roof technology to create additional usable space for fitness, dining, and other programmed events. The campus design will also integrate a meandering trail system that connects the site with the adjacent naturalized open space in Lopez Canyon. Qualcomm Pacific Center Campus is anticipating a LEED Gold rating from the USGBC.

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Lincoln Acres Library and Community Center

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LEED Rating: Silver certified
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
Size: .5 Acres
Partners: Safdie Rabines Architects
Client: City of San Diego
Budget: N/A
Completed: 2013

The Facts

landLAB collaborated with Safdie Rabines Architects on a new Community Center and Library for the Lincoln Acres community in southeast San Diego. The new facility will be constructed on the same site as the existing outdated library community center and adjacent playground. The new facility will include: an outdoor dining terrace adjacent to the community center that will be highly programmed by the surrounding community, new play spaces for tots and small children, and needed onsite parking. The project is LEED gold certified, featuring; sustainable low water use native plantings in “arroyo” gardens to filter and treat storm water on site, porous paving in the parking lot, and use of onsite recycled materials for new construction.

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Sharp-Rees Stealy Downtown Wellness Center

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Selected Projects: Health
Awards: DBIA, Golden Nugget
LEED Rating: Gold certified
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
Size: 2 Acres
Partners: AVRP Studios
Client: Sharp-Rees Stealy
Budget: N/A
Completed: 2013

About the Project

The landscape concept for the new Sharp-Rees Wellness Center is duality; duality of soft textures and crisp architectural lines, a historic site progressive health care, of public open spaces and private healing gardens. The design of the new Wellness Center creates a welcoming health care facility with beautifully landscaped entry ways and waiting areas, green walls and roofs, sustainable site features and healing garden spaces for staff, patients and visitors. The two key landscape features are the 3rd floor green roofs and the Grape Street Healing Garden with the historic Moreton Bay Fig tree. Environmental design principles such as passive solar are integrated into the proposed design: vine covered green screen at the parking garage; vegetated green roofs to shade and cool the building; deciduous trees to shade pavement and architecture. Other sustainable measures are on-site management of storm water at green roofs and at-grade landscaped areas, urban. heat-island reduction by shade structures, canopy trees and vegetated green roofs. Proposed plant species will be drought tolerant, non-invasive species with sensory or medicinal qualities. The site will be drip irrigated to reduce water-loss due to overspray, evaporation and wind.

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Site Features

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Kaiser Permanente Carmel Valley Medical Office Building

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Location: San Diego, CA, USA
Size: 4 Acres
Partners: Hanna Gabriel Wells Arch.
Client: Kaiser Permanente
Budget: N/A
Completed: 2013

About the Project

landLAB has teamed with Hanna Gabriel Wells Architects to design a new Kaiser Permanente medical office building in the Carmel Valley area of San Diego. The new facility takes advantage of a complex site by preserving and enhancing an existing wetland area and employing a comprehensive grading strategy that channels all of the storm water through biofiltration zones. The site design features extensive use of native plants selected for both aesthetics and habitat value. The planting concept is drawn from the local landscape featuring coast live oaks and Torrey pines on the hillsides and sycamores and alders in the lower bioswale areas. A central walkway planted with native and flowering trees connects the parking areas to the building giving visitors a garden like experience as they move from their cars to the facility. The main entry plaza is designed to provide a tranquil setting for patients to relax and enjoy a water feature that utilizes treated water collected onsite.

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Howard Hughes Corporate Center Landscape Refresh

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Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Size: 1.5 Acres
Partners: T.B Penick & Sons
Client: Hines
Budget: $2.5 Million
Completed: 2015

About the Project

landLAB was hired by Hines for the refresh of the corporate campus of Howard Hughes Center located in Los Angeles California. The goal of the proposal is to revitalize and activate unprogrammed and unused spaces and update the landscape that consists mainly of unsuitable open lawn areas and unsuitable tree and planting species with a sustainable and low maintenance landscape. The existing Howard Hughes Center has plenty of spaces that can be activated with various programs for the diverse range of groups, accommodating both large and small group gatherings. Another area of emphasis is the need for a narrative to accompany the name and aviation legacy of Howard Hughes, the man after the center is named.

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Concept Schemes

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La Jolla Shores Residence

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LEED Rating: Platinum certified
Location: La Jolla, CA, USA
Size: 6500 Sq Ft
Partners: Domus Studio
Client: Withheld
Budget: N/A
Completed: 2012

About the Project

landLAB teamed with Domus Studios Architects on the private residence of La Jolla Shores residence project located in La Jolla, California. The landscape design concept highlights and compliments the structure’s modern architectural features. The use of sculptural California natives and low water use planting help define the clean lines of the architecture while keeping sustainability at the forefront.

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ALX Alexan Luxury Apartments

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Location: San Diego, CA, USA
Size: 1.7 Acres
Partners: Joseph Wong Design Associates
Client: Trammell Crow Residential
Budget: N/A
Completed: In Progress

About the Project

landLAB collaborated with Joseph Wong Architects, on Trammel Crowes, latest high end apartment project in the east village of downtown San Diego. The new apartment complex comprised of a 15 story tower and five story loft building with integrated outdoor amenities and four levels. The roof top pool area was carefully sited to take advantage of the southern exposure and focusing on downtown and harbor views. Level two features outdoor BBQ /kitchens, fire pits, bocce court and a large multi-use lawn area, as well as pet washing area. The ground level plaza has a water wall and outdoor fireplace, yoga lawn, and outdoor lounge rooms, surrounded by a large stormwater garden collecting and storing roof water. A historic church has been relocated as part of the project, transformed into a restaurant/beer garden and outdoor lounge, providing an amenity to the transforming neighborhood.

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SIO Scripps Research Support Facilities

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Location: San Diego, CA, USA
Size: 3.5 Acres
Partners: Architects Roseling Nakamura Terada
Client: UC San Diego
Budget: N/A
Completed: 2014

About the Project

landLAB collaborated with Architects Roseling Nakamura Terada on the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Research Support Facilities at University of California San Diego aka ‘Seaweed Canyon’ an existing, functioning research, staging and storage facility tucked away in a deep canyon on the UCSD campus. Currently researchers carry out their work in the original Camp Matthew’s Quonset Huts dating back to 1942. Updates to the facility include three new high bay buildings, increased staging areas, photovoltaics, and improved emergency vehicle and tractor-trailer truck access. Storm water will be channeled from the roofs and paved areas and infiltrated in to two large vegetated bioswales. Buildings will be screened and softened by retaining all existing native trees and layering and understory of California native plants. By restoring a little more of the canyon landscape to its original state, and responsible architecture.

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UCSD Rady School of Management Phase II

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LEED Rating: Silver Certified
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
Size: 44,000 Sq. Ft
Partners: Ellerbe Beckett, HMC Architects
Client: UC San Diego
Budget: $21 Million
Completed: 2012

About the Project

landLAB collaborated with Ellerbe Becket and HMC Architects on Phase II of the Rady School of Management in the North Campus of UCSD. Phase II improvements enclose the main palm courtyard with a new building including tiered classrooms and a large auditorium terraced into the hillside. A new vehicular drop-off connects the main courtyard to the proposed north campus housing project and academic expansion to the north, while enhancing pedestrian linkages to the rest of the campus. The design features numerous terraces and breakout spaces for faculty and students to enjoy the beautiful San Diego climate. Native low water use coastal bluff planting contrast the colorful courtyard planting and large open lawn, in the adjacent ‘wedge’ open space to the south. Phase II will be LEED certified and will feature on site storm water management through bioswales and vegetated infiltration areas, that incorporate California native planting.