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UCSD 64° Dining Commons

The Facts

Awards: ASLA SD Merit Award 2016
LEED Rating: Silver certified
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
Size: 32,000 Sq. Ft.
Partners: Studio E Architects
Client: UC San Diego
Budget: $11 Million
Completed: 2015

About the Project

landLAB collaborated with Studio E Architects on a redesign for Revelle Café on the University of California San Diego Campus. The new design embraces sustainability as part of Revelle College while embracing the southern California climate by providing a variety of spaces enjoy the outdoor environment throughout the year. In the southern courtyard, porous paved dining areas are shaded by a by a bosque of palo verde trees, while oversized umbrellas provide relief from the sun on a “beach blanket” of rubber play surfacing with lounge chairs. In the northern courtyard, festoon lighting and a landmark outdoor fireplace bring warmth to an outdoor ‘rec-room’ complete with built in ping pong and community tables. Green planting walls are thoughtfully located to define space while creating an interesting edge to the outdoor room. The Revelle café landscape design develops a strong physical and visual connection between concurrent improvement projects at the adjacent Blake and Argo residence halls where landLAB is designing new courtyards and exterior landscaping to create a unified refreshed look for this important crossroads in Revelle College.

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UCSD Athena Parking Structure

The Facts

Location: San Diego, CA, USA
Size: 3 Acres
Partners: Studio E. Architects
Client: UC San Diego
Budget: N/A
Completed: 2016

About the Project

Studio E Architects + IPD and landLAB teamed up for a design-build competition with McCarthy Construction for a new parking structure at the UCSD campus. The objective was a 1200 car parking garage on a thigh site that must incorporate two 250-foot diameter Thermal Energy Storage tanks. Some of the outstanding features include capturing and filtering the storm water runoff through planted bioswales captured in underground storage tanks and overflow funneled into two, 100-foot deep dry wells. Other sustainable features include solar arrays and thermal energy storage (T.E.S.) tanks. The team was the selected winner of 3 design-built teams short-listed for this project.

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UCSD Center for Novel Therapeutics

The Facts

Location: San Diego, CA, USA
Size: 7.6 Acres
Partners: Perkins+Will, BioMED
Client: UC San Diego
Budget: N/A
Completed: In Progress

About the Project

landLAB collaborated with Perkins + Will Architects and BIOMED Realty, along with design build partner McCarthy Construction on the new Center for Novel Therapeutic in the science research park on the east Health sciences campus of UCSD. The landscape design of the Center for Novel Therapeutics continues the implementation of the master plan of Science Research Park while providing enhancements to overall campus connectivity, increasing areas of native planting and habitat and providing areas for storm water biofiltration. On the west side of the site a generous landscape area will be developed which extends the feeling of the adjacent canyon into the site. A sinuous accessible path (+/- 4.5%) will negotiate the almost 12 feet of grade change between the road and the building passing through drifts of native trees and drought tolerant planting. Small seating areas defined by concrete seat walls and paved with decomposed granite will give visitors and staff a place to enjoy the open space and views of the canyon to the west.

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UCSD Body Donor Memorial

The Facts

Location: San Diego, CA, USA
Size: .25 Acres
Partners: N/A
Client: UC San Diego
Budget: N/A
Completed: In Progress

About the Project

landLAB worked with the UCSD planning department to create a memorial in honor of the lives of the people that donated their body to scientific research. The site is meant as a site of commemoration and reflection on lives of the donors but also a tribute to the legacy they leave behind to science, their philosophy and values to their local community and the human race in the universe. Located on the bluffs in La Jolla, California the site offers a loci of points that are interpreted in the design of the memorial as a compass of location of place, passage of time, and philosophy/ spirituality. The vegetation consists of sculptural and ornamental planting local to the coast bluffs of San Diego and Torrey pines.

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Site Location & Seasons

Site Features

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SDSU Zura Residence Hall Refresh

The Facts

LEED Rating: Silver certified
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
Size: 1.5 Acres
Partners: HMC Architects, BBC, Mallum
Client: San Diego State University
Budget: $23 Million
Completed: 2015

About the Project

landLAB is collaborated with HMC architects and Mallum on the refresh of Zura Residence Hall at San Diego State University. The new design re-imagines one of San Diego State’s oldest residence halls as one of the hippest dorms on campus. Maintaining the existing structure, but reconfiguring and updating the interior to include accessible dorm rooms and facilities, communal study space, smarter room configurations and improved social and kitchen amenity spaces. The refreshed facility will include not only interior upgrades, but also exterior amenities that will meet the demands of today’s students. The exterior design highlights California climate creating a resort feel for student housing. A surfboard wash down and repair station, yoga and fitness lawn, outdoor game area, multiple fire pits and lounge seating and conversion of an existing unused roof deck to the ultimate student hangout space including movie wall, outdoor bbq and kitchen with adjacent dining area, flexible seating for studying or sunbathing, comfortable couches and big cozy chairs to gather in groups around the small fire pits.

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Las Colinas Detention and Reentry Facility

The Facts

Awards:
• ASLA SD Merit Award 2014
• AIA Justice Facilities Review Citation 2013
• AIA San Diego Design Award 2014
• CMAA San Diego Project Achievement Award 2015
• DBIA Design Excellence 2015
• DBIA Regional Award 2015
• WCCC Exceptional Project Achievement Award 2015
• WCCC Sustainability Excellence 2015
• WCCC Innovative Solutions Distinction Awards 2015
• CMAA Project Achievement Award 2015
• AGC Build San Diego Award- Unique Project 2015

LEED Rating: Gold Certified
Location: Santee, CA, USA
Size: 45 Acres
Partners: Balfour Beatty, KMD Architects, HMC Architects
Client: County of San Diego
Budget N/A
Completed: 2014

About the Project

A multi-disciplinary team consisting of Barnhart Balfour Beatty, KMD Architects, HMC Architects and landLAB landscape architecture and environmental design was selected as the winning team for the San Diego County Women’s Detention Facility Competition in Santee, California. Integrating the facility into the existing community was one of the many design challenges this unique project and program presented. The initial landscape concept drew inspiration from the site’s natural surroundings, history, and prerequisite to create a restorative environment. The overall landscape design stems from the necessity and the desire to create a sustainable campus. By using sustainable principles as a guide, everything in the landscape has dual purpose. A large perimeter of native shrubs and trees screens the facility while also providing a beneficial natural wildlife corridor. Gently graded, boulder-lined arroyos naturally channel storm-water runoff plus offer aesthetic value as ephemeral stream beds. Special features in the landscape will include integrated shade structures, seat walls, volleyball courts, greenhouse and an amphitheater space for larger functions.

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Landscape Typologies

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Cal State Fullerton Titan Student Union Expansion

The Facts

LEED Rating: Silver certified
Location: Fullerton, CA, USA
Size: 1.3 Acres
Partners: Steinberg Architects, PCL Construction
Client: CSU Fullerton
Budget: $15,000,000
Completed: 2016

About the Project

landLAB was on the winning Design Build Team with STEINBERG Architect and PCL Construction for the CSU Fullerton Titan Student Union Expansion. The landscape concept for the new student union is to extend the interior architectural space outside into a cohesive exterior environment. To create a flexible, fun, and chill space for daily student activities, chance encounters, studying, dining and/or lounging. The garden amphitheater is a perfect example of the expansion of indoor to outdoor space and provide a special and comfortable alcove within the larger Union space. The new student center will provide a variety of seating opportunities for groups or individuals and flexibility or arrangement for larger campus events. Cast in place seat walls, precast modular seating and freeform benches create a solid backbone for various plaza spaces. Community tables encourage friendly conversation while taller custom bar tops integrate outlets for laptops and devices for exterior flexible study/work space. Bistro style tables and moveable/ stackable chairs allow all students to tailor the space to their needs.

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UCSD Blake Residence Hall Courtyard

The Facts

Awards: ASLA SD Merit Award 2016
LEED Rating: Silver certified
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
Size: .5 Acre
Partners: Vasquez Marshall Architects
Client: UC San Diego
Budget: $2.5 Million
Completed: 2013

About the Project

landLAB and Vasquez Marshall Architects collaborated in the design of a new courtyard for the newly renovated Blake Residence Hall at the University of California, San Diego. While providing a place for students to unwind and relax; the courtyard landscape design draws inspiration from the native palm arroyo landscape, endemic to Southern California. Cast-in-place concrete seat walls integrated with sustainable hardwood decking and LED lighting provide a sense of identity to the courtyard and define outdoor spaces where students can eat, study, and socialize. Sustainable, Low Impact Development methods are employed in the design such as filtration and detention of rainfall and storm water runoff, low water-use and adaptive plantings partnered with a high efficiency irrigation system, and use of local hardscape materials.

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Birch Aquarium Main Entrance

The Facts

Location: San Diego, CA, USA
Size: 11,972 Sq. Ft
Partners: Snipes-Dye
Client: UCSD, Scripps Birch Aquarium
Budget: N/A
Completed: 2012

About the Project

The entry reconstruction project at Birch Aquarium is a collaboration between the University of California at San Diego and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at Birch Aquarium. landLAB partnered with Snipes Dye Civil Engineers to reduce the impact of vehicular traffic on this sensitive coastal site while enhancing the arrival experience for Aquarium patrons. By enlarging the existing median, large specimen Torrey Pines salvaged from a campus construction site were given a new and proper sea side home. The enlarged median will accommodate a small bioswale area to infiltrate site storm water runoff. New curvilinear site walls provide space for welcoming and directional signage. The combination of improved signage, an enlarged median, and additional exit lane will result in improved pedestrian safety, visibility and accessibility.

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Imperial Beach Bikeway Village

The Facts

Location: Imperial Beach, CA, USA
Size: 3.75 Sq Acres
Partners: Studio E Architects
Client: Withheld
Budget: N/A
Completed: 2017

About the Project

The Bikeway Village project is a collaboration between Studio E Architects and landLAB. The project site is situated along a key transition point along the Bayshore Bikeway, and provides an informal entrance to Imperial Beach. The project transforms two large existing warehouse buildings creating a welcoming, functional rest-stop for both riders, travelers and locals; complete with a one-stop bicycle and repair shop, cafes and hostel. A host of amenities that are oriented towards the bay and bikeway include: a large outdoor deck with formal and informal seating, outdoor fire pit, restored native coastal salt marsh planting, bicycle parking, water bottle refill station, trail side rest stop and public restrooms.