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SDSU Tula Conference Center and Tenochca Amenity Building

The Facts

Location: San Diego, CA, USA
Size: 2 Acres
Partners: Gensler, PCL
Client: SDSU
Budget: $14M
Completed: Under Construction

About the Project

landLAB along with Gensler and PCL Construction won the SDSU Tula Conference Center and Tenochaca Amenity Building Design Build Competition. The new design re-imagines the exterior another one of San Diego State’s older residence halls as one of the hippest dorms on campus. 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. The existing pool area has been refreshed including a new pool deck, outdoor game area, multiple fire pits and lounge seating. The roof of the amenity building deck creates another student hangout space including movie wall, outdoor bbq and kitchen with adjacent dining area The area also includes a full court basketball court, “the beach” that has a sand volley ball court and oversized umbrellas, and a putting green. Sprinkled throughout is ample 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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December 21, 2017

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CSU Dominguez Hills Student Housing PHIII

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Location: Carson, CA, USA
Size: 4 Acres
Partners: Steinberg Architects, PCL
Client: CSU Dominguez Hills
Budget: N/A
Completed: In Progress

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December 20, 2017

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UCSD Voigt Parking Structure

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Location: San Diego, CA, USA
Size: 5.75 Acres
Partners: McCarthy, Studio E Architects, IPD
Client: UC San Diego
Budget: $35 Million
Completed: In Progress

About the Project

landLAB along with Studio E Architects, IPD and McCarthy Construction won a design build competition for the new Voigt Parking structure at UCSD. The garage features an
active and passive roof landscape that has been carefully integrated into the side of a native canyon and is connected at grade to Warren Mall at the heart of the Jacob’s school of Engineering. The landscape design features vignettes of southern Californian landscapes including, coastal sage scrub, native riparian and torrey pine grasslands. All of site and surrounding stormwater is integrated into the structure in a series of flow through planters on the canyon side of the garage, creating an active water feature in a rain event.

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CSU Northridge G6 Parking Structure

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Location: Northridge, CA, USA
Size: 4.25 Acres
Partners: Bomel Const. HED Architects, IPD
Client: CSU Northridge
Budget: N/A
Completed: In Progress

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December 19, 2017

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Sharp-Rees Stealy Downtown Wellness Center

The Facts

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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September 20, 2015

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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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September 20, 2015

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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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September 20, 2015

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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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California State University San Marcos Student Union

The Facts

Awards: ASLA SD Merit Award 2014
LEED Rating: Gold certified
Location: San Marcos, CA, USA
Size: 13.3 Acre
Partners: Hornberger+Worstell, PCL Construction
Client: CSU San Marcos
Budget: $33 Million
Completed: 2014

About the Project

landLAB collaborated with Hornberger + Worstell architects and PCL Construction on the new Student Union, which is located prominently in the center of campus at CUSSM. The design of the Student Union is focused on sustainable site planning and design principles, enhancing pedestrian access to the facility and through the site, while creating the “living room” for the campus. The new buildings were carefully integrated into the existing hillside, creating new outdoor spaces that enhance interaction of visitors, students and faculty from the campus at large. A series of interconnected indoor-outdoor spaces, each with its own character and identity, are combined with indoor program and include a large amphitheater that provides areas for both large and intimate gatherings in a play of light and shade. The LEED Gold design features green roofs, rain garden/ bioswales, low water use native planting, photovoltaics and is planned to be minimum LEED silver facility.