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University of California Irvine requested through their modified design-build process, a multi-purpose Academic and dministrative Building attached to an adjacent parking structure. The office structure was to contain offices, a 24-hour study lab, and classrooms serving their MBA program. The unique aspect of this office structure is its requirement for a self-supporting concrete block exterior skin. The primary technical hurdle that had to be overcome was the UBC Zone 4 seismic requirement. This was accomplished with a freestanding steel frame building that provided lateral brace attachment points for the exterior skin at each floor. Large window openings with small vertical support legs required placing a full 4-story high, steel pipe column inside the vertical end of the concrete masonry blocks. A variety of finishes and integral colored concrete masonry blocks were used providing the building design with architectural interest. Smooth-face concrete masonry block was used in the recessed areas using a contrasting color from the two colors of split face concrete masonry block used for the primary building walls. The parking facility consists of seven levels, 1,819 spaces on 554,500 square feet in conjunction with the 45,000 square-foot office building. This facility was designed for a challenging curved site located on an existing parking lot. Grade changes between two roads resulted in a unique design that included tucking a corner of the facility into the hillside, while creating multilevel entrance and exit points that not only increased efficiency in vehicle flow, but reduced queuing along these important roadways. To integrate the facility into the surrounding area, painted shear walls were used to break up the visual appearance of the parking facility, while split-face concrete masonry spandrels and column cladding was utilized in three colors to group elements and reduce the visual height of the building. The use of concrete masonry block on the parking facility aided in blending the appearance of the office building and the parking facility by creating a visual synergy between the two buildings.
ARCHITECT OF RECORD, PARKING STRUCTURE: Choate Parking Consultants, Inc. Richard Choate Watry Design Group
ARCHITECT OF RECORD, OFFICE BUILDING: Ware Malcomb Richard Gonser, Architect, CSI EHDD OWNER:
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