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 challenge, as the space receives almost no natural light. To counteract this, uplifting colors are applied throughout the space, and the general ambience is greatly enhanced with the high ceilings and direct/indirect lighting that bounces off ceilings. The resulting facility maximizes research space, including bench, shelving and equipment. BIM enabled FPBA to realistically model the space and utility coordination before the first construction activity occurred, saving the entire team time, money and rework. Should future changes need to be made, they will be designed with the benefit of an accurate 3D model of all existing conditions.
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 with backstops and dugouts for the Poway Girls Softball League. Site amenities include play structures, jogging trails and foot paths as well as public parking.
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 improved upon the existing building lab standards by testing multiple laboratory layouts and implementing lessons learned from past projects. The space’s open lab environment encourages a collaborative work environment.
With continued growth and demand, the City of Poway elected to move its library and sheriff station from storefront facilities to a new community service center to accommodate significant expansion of safety personnel in the growing Poway Community. FPBA created a high visibility civic center in an area designated for redevelopment with a flexible learning environment that responds to evolving information technology and print and electronic media. FPBA visually linked the style and architecture of sheriff station with the library, as the community wanted the facilities to be designed using consistent, regional architecture. After the project was completed, community use of the library increased tenfold.
The Carlsbad City Library serves the entire community, providing quality information, resources and evolving technologies to meet ever-changing community needs. This library creates a welcoming environment that supports the needs of the diverse citizenry as well as the city’s growing business community. Carlsbad Library creates a flexible learning environment that responds to evolving information technology and print and electronic media. It features multipurpose facilities that accommodate competing activities, such as a town meeting and a quiet reading area. Described as a library unlike any other in the county, the facility became a model to make libraries the community center of the 21st century.
Gilead Sciences opened its new site in Oceanside by purchasing an existing clinical-scale manufacturing building. Ferguson Pape Baldwin Architects was tasked with creating a campus environment when Gilead acquired the adjacent building to house laboratories and office space. The new site improvements created accessible pedestrian access and landscaping to tie the two buildings together, and the new glass storefront at the lobby entrance provided more natural light. The interior space was master planned to create a mezzanine for utilities and to preserve critical space for a future pilot plant, more labs and offices. Conference rooms, multi-purpose space, a cafeteria and fitness center were added to provide the amenities that had previously been lacking.
Gilead Sciences opened its new site in Oceanside by purchasing an existing clinical-scale manufacturing building. Ferguson Pape Baldwin Architects was tasked with creating a campus environment when Gilead acquired the adjacent building to house laboratories and office space. This parcel had limited parking and site area for utilities, so FPBA utilized its past experience in Oceanside to negotiate entitlement approvals with the local Business Park Association and obtain a Conditional Use Permit from the City for a reduced parking count. The new site improvements created pedestrian access and landscaping to tie the two buildings together and new glass storefront at the lobby entrance provided more natural light. The interior space was master planned to create a mezzanine for utilities and to preserve critical space for a future pilot plant, more labs and offices. Conference rooms, multi-purpose space, a cafeteria and fitness center were added to provide the amenities that had previously been lacking. The project was executed on an accelerated schedule in compliance with Gilead’s design standards. This project strengthens Gilead’s portfolio for research and development in Southern California with a strong base for recruiting of new staff and space for expansion to accommodate new functions. This project was a collaborative effort with BN Builders and a design-build team of engineers and contractors.
Ferguson Pape Baldwin Architects, along with C.W. Driver and Architect Manuel Oncina, were selected to design and construct a new 13,500-square-foot branch library for the County of San Diego to serve the community of Alpine and the surrounding areas. The facility not only acts as a vibrant learning center for its users but also creates a busy hive of activity and cultural exchange. Alpine Library is the first County-owned zero energy facility. It has achieved both LEED Gold Certification through the USGBC and Zero Energy Certification via Living Future Institute. The project is also the first library to achieve certification through the Zero Energy program. Alpine Library pays a significant tribute to the town’s rich history, from its ancestral settlers to today’s residents, by integrating architectural forms, art and details inspired by surrounding elements and culture, creating an exceptional gathering place that respects the local landscape and synergy with the neighboring park, Alpine Community Center and Veteran’s Wall of Honor. The building includes a marketplace – featuring popular books, media and a computer lab – an expandable resource room for flexible programming, dividable study rooms, family homework center, distinctive areas for adults, teens and children, outdoor reading niches/patio that overlook the park, support spaces and the Alpine Library Friends Association bookstore. Alpine Library strives to provide a “Third Place” to the community, committed to promoting literacy, lifelong learning and social capital. Alpine Library was featured for its high energy performance within “Building Catalog: Case Studies of High Performance Buildings,” a database developed by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. The International Living Future Institute also featured Alpine Library as a case study for energy efficiency.
ViaSat, a leader in innovative satellite and wireless communication products for commercial and military markets, expanded to a seven building campus. FPBA were hired to relocate the Operations Group into a new facility that enhances their Operations’ efficiency, teamwork and cooperation. An newly upgraded entrance and lobby is the portal to and from the existing campus where manufacturing flows were utilized to organize an efficient, logical layout in as large an open manufacturing area as possible. FPBA developed 3D views and animations to enable the design team and users to create, understand and refine the all important physical aspects of the facility. An overhead modular grid system organizes the power, grounding, compressed air, phone and data to supply a multitude of possible manufacturing configurations. A meandering circulation path takes visitor and employees through an exciting open office area to conference rooms and other common areas while maintaining secure zones for ViaSat’s intellectual property.
As a 7,500-square-foot program component for the design of a larger cytology and oncology diagnostic facility, Genoptix required a certified CLIA (Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments) laboratory. Criteria included conformance to CDC’s Standards and Certification: Laboratory Requirements (42 CFR 493) issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), with particular design attention to criteria in Section 493.111, Facilities Administration. The design solution was coordinated with laboratory managers to ensure sample flows were uni-directional within the CLIA labs, that space planning segregated this function from other testing operations to avoid cross-contamination and that relative air pressurization and filtration was appropriate to the diagnostic procedures. CLIA inspections and subsequent certification were completed and achieved in Q4 2013.
