Hope Chapel
Hope Chapel
Hope Chapel is located in Hermosa Beach and is about to undertake a total reimaging of their building. Since 1976, the church has occupied what was a former bowling alley which overlooks the Pacific Ocean on Pacific Coast Highway. God recycled that old derelict building and established a “light on the hill” in Hermosa Beach. Together we have reimagined the Chapel with an expandable Sanctuary, Roof Deck, Outdoor Terrace, World Class Children’s Church, an Ocean view Prayer Chapel, a three story welcome Lobby and a dedicated Youth Ministry area.
Imperial Beach Library
Imperial Beach Library
The new Imperial Beach Library includes spaces for children, teens, and adults; a marketplace area featuring popular books and media; a computer lab, homework center, and Wi-Fi; a Community room for flexible programming; and approximately 425 square feet of space for the Friends of Imperial Beach Library operated bookstore. domusstudio was the Design Architect on this project which won an Award of Merit from the ENR California – 2017 Regional Project and also a 2017 Energy Efficiency & Integration Award from the San Diego Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Team: Project Architect of record: Jeff Katz Architecture. Interior Design: Delawie Architects.
Child Development Center Twentynine Palms
Child Development Center Twentynine Palms
The Child Development Center (CDC) at the USMC base in Twentynine Palms aspires to demonstrate that design of the built environment can provide rich learning opportunities for young children’s actively developing minds as they discover, explore and develop their level of understanding of their world.
The CDC’s Child Activity Rooms are organized around a sheltering Courtyard plan, oriented to the cardinal North-South-East-West directions, creating a shared outdoor common space protected from the harsh desert environment with intentionally placed views out to the surrounding desert, mountains, and principal landmarks.
Within the Courtyard, a shared ‘Atelier’ children’s studio provides an open, light & airy place for children’s creative play and artwork with work-tables, benches, supplies, and exhibit spaces.
The architectural form of the Twentynine Palms Child Development Center responds to the Mojave Desert’s extreme climatic and environmental conditions, providing a variety of shaded and sheltered interior and outdoor spaces designed and constructed with the Owner’s stated intention to redefine what Marine Corps families can expect from a Marine Corps Child Care facility.
Design elements were incorporated to offer opportunities for engagement and stimulation of the children’s natural curiosity and capacity for learning both about Nature (things growing and responding to the energy of the sun and the rhythmic cycles of the earth) and Architecture (exposed structure, various materials, textures and colors, the varying qualities of sound produced by changing ceiling heights within connected interior spaces and the visual contrasting qualities of sunlight vs. shadow vs. filtered light vs. shade).
Among other accomplishments, this project was the Navy’s first Net–Zero facility; generating as much renewable electrical energy from its artfully-designed photovoltaic ‘tree structures’ as it consumes over the course of a year from both natural gas and electricity.
Photography by: Pablo Mason, Pablomasonphotography.com
Oceanside beach house
oceanside beach house
In order to construct this contemporary beach house, the family demolished their salt air eroded redwood clad home which was beyond repair. A summer camp on the beach, this unique home, communally shared by multiple families, sits on the beach in Oceanside. This contemporary vacation home’s program led to unique solutions with detached bedrooms that were separated by outdoor decks from the main living spaces and a transformable structure which unfolds to reveal indoor/outdoor rooms on multiple levels: active spaces for the children, private suites for the parents, as well as family style dining and kitchen spaces. The home removes the physical barriers to the beach through the multi-leveled series of terraces, decks, and patios that connect the interior spaces with the beachfront environment, providing ocean views from every room in the house and allowing one to reconnect to each other and our coastal environment. It is a home designed for wellness! The close proximity of homes along the beach prompted a design that would provide sunset views and views up and down the coast while maximizing family privacy. At the same time, the house is transparent from the easterly bluff allowing a neighborhood connection to the water along a street where almost every home does exactly the opposite.
The structure primarily consists of cast-in-place concrete walls used to retain the bluff behind and weather the harsh elements which caused the ultimate demise of the previous structure.
Gloria Dei Lutheran Church
Gloria Dei Lutheran Church
Gloria Dei Lutheran church is an E.L.C.A. Congregation located in Dana Point. domusstudio worked with the building committee and developed a Master Plan for entire campus. The first completed phase included the re-grading of the site allowing the parking to be pushed to the perimeter and freed up additional land at the center of the campus. A new natural themed Pre-School Playground was constructed to replace and relocate the playground to make room for the new Sanctuary.
The new Sanctuary was placed at the front of the campus for maximum visibility. The design is a total transparent Sanctuary which removed both the visual and physical barriers from the neighborhood and first time visitors… a church with no walls immersed in the community. The Sanctuary incorporates a 50’ operable wall creating an indoor/outdoor worship venue. The result has been a “community building” facility where members and guests mingle and visit both before and after Services, building strong social ministries, an important part of a church’s success. Although a very contemporary space, the liturgical elements and traditional instruments call upon their Lutheran Heritage and worship style. The church was consciously built to appeal to the next generation.
Because of the indoor/outdoor design, the landscape played an important role in the success of the campus. Natural limestone benches and decomposed granite meld with the white oak and polished concrete floors of the Sanctuary interior blurring the threshold and visually flow together. An exterior Font was cut from a limestone boulder and anchors the main courtyard. At the mouth of the rear canyon, a small gathering space was created offering an area of respite.
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of San Dieguito
UU Fellowship of San Dieguito
“It’s not just about renewing spaces. It’s also about a renewal of spirit”
Over time a congregation’s facilities can find themselves presenting as many challenges as opportunities resulting from periodic, and often disparate, improvements and alterations. Spaces no longer fit the needs of current activities, finding your way around becomes difficult, and as is the case with any structure they reach the end of their design life. Finding themselves in a similar position, the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of San Dieguito embraces a time of renewal. As they put it:
“It’s about fine-tuning and enlivening our vision of who we are and what we want UUFSD to be. It is an opportunity for us to come together, to unite our voices and our spirit.This is our chance, here and now, to build our legacy from the ground up, while taking care not to tread too heavily on the earth with our own footprint, nor trample the footprints that our elders, our founders, have left before us. The time is now.”
To bring this new vision to life, the UUFSD building committee (self named the Dream Builders) worked with our team to develop a new Master Plan for their beautiful campus. UUFSD has a wonderful site in Solana Beach, California that is and will remain largely undeveloped. Their multi-acre site puts their congregation right in the heart of nature, a characteristic the congregation sought to accentuate with its Master Plan. Nature has however also taken a toll on many of the UUFSD buildings. With many buildings now either in disrepair or simply not suiting the current and upcoming needs of the congregation, the Master Plan focuses on reorganizing uses on the site and creating new spaces that will support the life of the congregation long into the future. This involves improvements to the outdoor amphitheater where the typical Sunday service is held, a new A/V building to support the amphitheater, new administration building opening to an enlivened outdoor campus core area, new youth building, and new preschool classroom buildings. Though these new spaces will serve the congregation well, the site itself presented some of the greatest challenges. With steep slopes and abundant plant-life to be preserved and enjoyed, the team worked hard to improve the way people move through the site in a way that took advantage of the site’s beauty. Improved walkways and paths throughout the site not only provide safer and more comfortable movement, they intentionally provide opportunities for people to wander, stop, think, and soak in the natural environment.
Through much dreaming, discussing, refining and effort the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of San Dieguito has synthesized and developed a plan to build a legacy that will help them grow, serve, and thrive for years to come.
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Treehouse Truss
The Treehouse Truss
The Treehouse Truss is a home among the trees, cantilevering over a gorge to enjoy mountain views.
The owner wanted seclusion, a home that separated him from the noise and lights of neighbors and the city and allowed him to feel isolated. His combined computer and aeronautical background however encourages him towards projects which require maintaining connection to the grid; this prevented a more remote site location. With this technical background of innovation, the owner understandably desired a home designed to reflect that character, a character which would only naturally develop an innovative house worthy of notice. This heavily wooded site in Flagstaff, Arizona proved a suitable canvas for the task.
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The design team set forth to design a small single family residence which allowed the owner to commune with the natural surroundings but also provide space to tinker. The resultant living space is modest in size (under 1000 s.f.) but with a large feel. Large folding glass door systems on either end of the elongated studio like space blurs the limits of the house with the forest which surrounds it. Where living space is modest tinkering space is abundant via the attached and detached garages (1,200 s.f. and 1,600 s.f. respectively).
Though some of this space sits on grade, most of the living space rests in the best spot on the property – the treetops. The long, narrow house capitalizes on the site’s steep terrain and utilizes significant structure, effectively a large truss, to cantilever over an onsite gorge to put the house and it’s inhabitant some thirty feet up into the trees.
The project recently received approval for its building permit and is waiting to commence construction
- Residential
- Flagstaff, AZ
University City High School
University City High School
Detailed scope regarding the upper athletic fields includes new dedicated fields for baseball only, softball only, soccer/lacrosse/field hockey, and a multi-purpose practice field. Additionally two new storage buildings, a restroom/concessions building, and a small parking lot are planned. At the baseball and softball fields, new scoreboards, dugouts, bleachers, bullpens, batting cages, and perimeter fencing will be provided. A new accessible path of travel will be provided to all fields.
Scope of work in the stadium includes the removal of two existing ticket booths and one storage building. New accessible seating will be provided at the home and visitor bleachers and new accessible athletic services buildings with new ticket offices, restrooms, and concessions will be provided for both home and away patrons. A new accessible pedestrian path of travel to the main stadium entry and entry plaza and a new small parking lot will also be provided via the reconfiguration of the existing outdoor tennis, basketball, and multi-purpose hard courts.
St. Patrick’s Catholic School
St. Patrick’s Catholic School
The Master Plan analyzed existing facilities and proposed renovations to existing and new facilities to support the defined needs of the congregation and school. The Master Plan was designed to be implemented in phases.
The first phase of the Master Plan is to improve the existing K-8 school portion of the campus. The solution replaces existing modular buildings with a new two-story classroom, library and computer lab building. Also included in this phase is a new Chapel. The viable portions of the existing buildings are proposed to be renovated to modernize and re-organize the spaces to work with the new building. The new school campus will have logical spatial adjacencies, a secure controlled point of entry, safe on-site pick up and drop off procedures, centralized administrative, faculty and staff facilities and new sports and play areas.
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