FPD Portfolios
In the 40 years of occupying the campus, La Jolla Country Day School reached a point of self-introspection. The school determined it was time to readdress the learning environment to best serve the needs of current and future students. The campus environment and facilities form the basis of appeal for students, faculty and staff who… Read more »
La Jolla Country Day School retained FPBA to provide programming services to define the spatial and design requirements for two new campus facilities consisting of a Campus Commons and a Middle School Campus Complex on the existing La Jolla Country Day School campus. FPBA and La Jolla Country Day resolved to integrate the school’s six… Read more »
This 3,300 SF dine-in restaurant and grill at San Diego Zoo is a key component of the overall Elephant Odyssey project. Strategically located, this full-service dining venue includes a large (4,500 sf) open-air seating plaza designed to accommodate large gatherings including weddings. The site, on a mesa overlooking the main exhibits, offers unobstructed views of… Read more »
This 1,400 SF merchandise retail store at San Diego Zoo shares guest support functions with the adjacent Sabertooth Grill and offers a range of themed merchandise in an open-air, bazaar-like setting. Products from around the world reinforce the Zoo’s commitment to education of guests of all ages. A significant portion of the shop’s retail income… Read more »
Project SHORE (Shire Operations for Regenerative Expansion) was master planned to be a new build-to-suit campus for Shire’s Regenerative Medicine Business Unit and provide increased commercial production capacity of Dermagraft, a dermal substitute approved for treatment of diabetic foot ulcers, along with future capacity for other products. The master plan includes an ultimate build out… Read more »
FPBA and C.W. Driver joined forces to design and construct the School of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences at San Diego State University. Through the design-build process, the team assisted the university in meeting its LEED goals by identifying components of the existing building able to be reused during the renovation. Existing classrooms and lab… Read more »
Gilead Sciences commissioned this project to further its commitment to advancing therapeutics in the quest to improve lives. With over 23 acres in an industrial and manufacturing park in Southern California, Phase 1 is designed for 320,000 usable square feet in five buildings with generous vertical clearances to accommodate manufacturing equipment. The complete campus build-out… Read more »
In this project completed for the University of California, Irvine, FPBA sought to evoke the facility’s mission of providing a better quality life to people. Common areas and amenities provide balance to the important, focused research work in the laboratories areas. Working with the existing constraints of the low-clearance basement proved to be the biggest… Read more »
This 10-acre park was designed for the City of Poway to coincide with the character of the “Old Poway Park.” FPBA designed the public amenities around old growth trees to achieve a rustic style. The park includes a Snack Shack building, a 2,400-square-foot-facility located in the flood plane of Aubrey Park, and four ball fields… Read more »
The La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology is a private biomedical research institute located in UC San Diego’s Science Research Park. The South Shell Lab Build-Out project consists of 6,000 square feet of flexible laboratory space for biomedical research, including a tissue culture lab, principal investigator offices and a lab technician office area. The project… Read more »