Cal Poly Pomona Student Housing

The Facts

Location: Pomona, CA, USA
Size: 35 Acres
Partners: Steinberg Architects, PCL
Client: Cal Poly Pomona
Budget: N/A
Completed: 2015

About the Project

landLAB teamed with Steinberg Architects and PCL Construction on the Cal Poly Pomona Student Housing Design Build Competition. The landscape concept for the new student housing village is connection and community. Creating an attractive, fun, safe and healthy neighborhood and home for students and their families. The landscape strives to increase opportunities for social interaction and collaboration, places to study, hang out or play. While the proposed landscape is cohesive in character, smaller zones within the larger development provide a variety of different spaces for the residents.

Housing Masterplan

Masterplan Phasing

Site Hydrology

Site Planting Typologies

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SDSU West Campus Housing Masterplan

The Facts

Location: San Diego, CA, USA
Size: 16 Acres
Partners: Carrier Johnson Architects
Client: San Diego State University
Budget: N/A
Completed: 2013

About the Project

landLAb collaborated with Carrier Johnson Architects on the master plan for the West Campus housing at SDSU . The landscape draws inspiration from historic gardens and architecture of the Alhambra. Perched high on a hillside, the patios, terraces and roof deck are oriented to capture views of mountains beyond. Bougainvillea covered arcades direct the user into the main entry points and public dining areas. Series of courtyards pique your interest, and create a variety of spaces for both the public and for residents. A gated pool and large fire pit activate the main dining terrace. A pedestrian bridge and elevator connects the main dining facility to the Canyon Towers and Canyon View Park at the lower level. Centered on the North side of the development, lies grand staircase that provides a direct route from the main dining terrace down to the Canyon Trails (and access road). Along this same access road, small cafe is conveniently located, to grab a quick latte on your way to class, or a sunny place to hang out and meet up with friends.

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Imperial Valley County Office of Education Masterplan

The Facts

Location: El Centro, CA, USA
Size: 26.5 Acres
Partners: HMC Architects
Client: El Centro Unif. District
Budget: N/A
Completed: In Progress

About the Project

landLAB collaborated with HMC Architects, and the Imperial County Office of Education on the Campus Master Plan for the new educational campus located in El Centro California. The master plan connects the existing administration facilities with the new campus including pedestrian open space connections, plazas and courtyards. The new campus will demonstrate sustainable design principals including; reducing the heat Island Effect, passive heating and cooling, on-site storm water management, low-water use and California native landscaping, as well as the use of local, recycled and renewable materials. Buildings and associated parking lots were carefully sited to create courtyards and public spaces that are interconnected through a system of pedestrian walks and trails. A large central open space adjacent to the IVCEC center provides passive recreational opportunities for the public, ICOE staff and students, while functioning as a natural storm retention and infiltration area.

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Pedestrian Circulation

Landscape Typologies

Site Hydrology

Site Elevation with Proposed Landscape Typologies

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UCSD East Mesa Graduate Housing Masterplan

The Facts

Location: San Diego, CA, USA
Size: 16 Acres
Partners: Carrier Johnson Architects
Client: UC San Diego
Budget: N/A
Completed: 2014

About the Project

landLAB teamed with Carrier Johnson Architects and Clark Construction on the East Campus Graduate and Family Housing Project Design Build Competition. The landscape concept for the new graduate housing village is connection and community. Creating an attractive, fun, safe and healthy neighborhood and home for students and their families. The landscape strives to increase opportunities for social interaction and collaboration, places to study, hang out or play. While the proposed landscape is cohesive in character, smaller zones within the larger development provide a variety of different spaces for the residents. The community is designed around a unifying central space called ‘the Hub’. The Hub is a flexible social gathering space for events, music, food & dining, food trucks, farmer’s markets and just hanging out. The main ‘spoke’ on this wheel is a large path aligned to the future pedestrian bridge – this will become the main pedestrian pathway for the entire neighborhood, continuing to the East in phase II.

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Masterplan Phasing

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UCSD Warren Housing Feasibility Study

The Facts

Location: San Diego, CA, USA
Size: 14.5 Acres
Partners: Kevin deFreitas Architects
Client: UC San Diego
Budget: N/A
Completed: 2013

About the Project

landLAB is collaborating with Kevin deFreitas architecture on a feasibility study for the Warren Housing complex at UCSD North Campus. The primary objective of the feasibility study is to develop a framework for potential projects in and around the residential complexes and to update the existing facilities with sustainable landscape and building features while creating an attractive destination on campus for all to enjoy. The study promotes incorporation of integrated indoor/outdoor study pavilions, demonstration gardens, active and passive recreation areas and nature lookouts within a clearly defined hierarchy of pathways to create a ‘there there’ landmark. Refreshing outdoor spaces and enhancing bicycle and pedestrian connections to adjacent warren mall and the rest of UCSD’s campus by creating appropriately scaled and engaging pathways, nodes, and portals is a primary component of the feasibility study.

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Site Opportunities

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UCSD The GRK Fraternity Housing Feasibility Study

The Facts

Location: San Diego, CA, USA
Size: 153.5 Acres
Partners: deFreitas Architects
Client: UC San Diego
Budget: N/A
Completed: 2014

About the Project

landLAB collaborated with Kevin deFreitas Architect on a feasibility study for an on campus fraternity neighborhood for the UC San Diego Campus. The project incorporated a large sunken central open space wrapped with Fraternity houses with a large open event lawn, BBQ terrace, and storm water garden. Interconnected to the neighborhood is the GRK commons building housing lecture rooms, auditorium as well as tower for medical offices. At the heart of the project is a micro retail center featuring small local businesses providing the necessary amenities for not only the housing but to serve all of the East Campus Health Sciences Neighborhood.

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University of San Diego Master Plan Refresh

The Facts

Location: San Diego, CA, USA
Size: 160 Acres
Partners: Pearson, MW Steele
Client: University of San Diego
Budget: N/A
Completed: 2015

About the Project

landLAB collaborated with M.W. Steele Architects and Sue Peerson Planning on updating the masterplan for the University of San Diego. The team sets the road map for the expansion of the campus including new academic buildings, recreational facilities, Campus Student Life Facilities and Student Housing. Coupled with this expansion is a focus on establishing a pedestrian only core, along an integrated plan of major open spaces and pedestrian plazas. The masterplan also includes design guidelines for hardscape panting and irrigation, implementation of bike lanes, implementation of strategies for campus wide turf reduction, connections to native open space and canyons, as well as creation of integrated stormwater management. The final masterplan will be submitted as a CUP submittal to the City of San Diego

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December 6, 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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Concept Sketch

Project Phasing

Landscape Typologies

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September 20, 2015

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Meiling Hot Spring Golf Club

The Facts

Location: Hainan Island, China
Size: 33000 Sq M
Partners: Mco. Architects
Client: Withheld
Budget: N/A
Completed: Under Construction

About the Project

landLAB collaborated with Myklebust Company and Schmidt Curley Golf Course Architects on the White Stone Mountain Golf Village Hotel. Located adjacent to the Changling reservoir near Qionghai on the west coast of Hainan Island, China, the new 18 hole golf resort features a golf clubhouse that cater to vacationing golfers and spa clientele. The hotel and clubhouse are designed to accommodate large golf tournaments and have been carefully sited to maximize views to the 1st and 18th holes, natural reservoir, and surrounding landscape. The hotel features natural, hot- spring spa pools and invigorating cold pools, outdoor dining terraces, as well as a floating tea pavilion and boat dock. Villas have been carefully integrated into the golf course layout to provide both views and direct access to the golf course and open space corridors. Adjacent to the golf course is a mixed use development with service apartments, town houses and an executive golf course, reservoir and mountains beyond.

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ALOHA at Clearwater Bay Resort Master Plan

The Facts

Location: Hainan Island, China
Size: 1 Sq Km
Partners: Mco. Architects
Client: Withheld
Budget: N/A
Completed: Under Construction

About the Project

landLAB collaborated with Myklebust Company on the resort master plan for the new resort “Aloha”, on South Clearwater Bay, a one kilometer square resort site on the south coast of Hainan Island, China close to the nearby Resort town of Sanya. The new resort rests prominently on approximately 1000 meters of beach frontage, adjacent to numerous proposed five star resorts located along a 12 mile stretch of white sand beach. The resort master plan de-emphasizes the use of the automobile, providing a network of nature trails and pedestrian walkways connecting the various types of residential unit types, retail areas and open space amenities to the beach. Palm tree-lined “Ocean Boulevard” is the main vehicular drive along the ocean frontage parcels connecting the two, 5-star resort hotels with the central island podium towers and retail promenade. The site planning maximizes ocean views and access to the public beach front plazas, where the user can enjoy numerous pools, lounges, cabanas and cafes. The kilometer long beach front network of boardwalks and sport courts create an active “Waikiki vibe” along the gorgeous white sand beach of Clearwater Bay.