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TED
AND RAND SCHAAL
AQUATICS COMPLEX
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS
DAVIS, CALIFORNIA
Photography:
Whittaker Photography
Doug Braun,
Calstone Company
The Schaal Aquatics Complex helps define a new plaza at the arrival point for the west side of the UC Davis campus. The first phase of the complex consists of the locker and shower rooms, restrooms, pool equipment room, and the pool. The pool is used as a venue for men’s and women’s competitive swimming, diving, and water polo. A second, future phase is planned to house the front office, coaching offices, team room, and an entry canopy. The two buildings, together with landscaped berms, are arranged to buffer the pool area from wind, noise, and views of the adjacent street.
Concrete masonry block was chosen for its aesthetic look and feel, durability, and ability to stand up to moisture and pool chemicals. Walls facing the pool area are precision block, and walls of burnished block with glass block insets face the exterior of the complex. The building spaces are either not conditioned or provided with fan coil heating units for the coldest months, so the block also provides thermal mass to help keep the buildings cool in summer and warm in winter.
Skylights in the shower rooms and translucent clerestory windows in the locker rooms provide natural daylight. Two long west facing walls of burnished concrete block provide privacy for the locker and shower rooms and protection from the afternoon sun. Obscure glass blocks interspersed with the concrete block let pockets of light into these spaces.
ARCHITECT:
Carrier
Johnson
275 B McCormick Avenue
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
John
Beck
Design Architect
STRUCTURAL
ENGINEER:
BFL Owen
POOL
CONSULTANT:
Aquatics Design Group
GENERAL
CONTRACTOR:
Brown Construction
MASONRY
CONTRACTOR:
G. L. Mertz
BLOCK
PRODUCER:
Calstone Company
OWNER:
University of California, Davis
