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STEPPING STONE CENTRAL RESIDENTIAL RECOVERY FACILITY SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA
A workshop involving staff, alumni and residents of the existing inadequate and deteriorating facility, generated a framework for the design solution. These goals were addressed by creating a central courtyard to provide organization, focus and comfort, two serenity gardens, offering opportunities for retreat and healing through scale and choice of plant materials, a central stair shaped as a “pump”, providing the setting for “shows” and playfully addressing the residents. In addition, there are six separate buildings of varying materials, colors and textures, articulated wood decks connecting buildings with a residential scale and detail and parking accessed from an alley and underneath the building. In the design of this facility, concrete masonry block was selected to add hierarchy and scale. Split-faced concrete masonry block is offset with bands of precision concrete masonry block on the exterior of the stair tower and commons building. Split-face concrete masonry creates depth and shadow, while the precision concrete masonry bands reduce the scale. The block is exposed on the interior of these spaces as well, with a single score precision face concrete masonry block that reads as 8x8 tile and helps create a residential scale and feeling. In addition, concrete masonry block was used for site and retaining walls, because of its durability, ease of construction, scale and texture.
ARCHITECT: Zagrodnik + Thomas Architects,
LLP Jean Zagrodnik, AIA
OWNER: Stepping Stone of San Diego, Inc. |
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JURY
COMMENTS:
The Jury
was impressed with the overall layout of this project. The
massing of the buildings shows the various functions of the
program well and creates a courtyard sanctuary with areas
for planting. The building also protects its inhabitants
from the community and vice versa.
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