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Nanometer Technology Park - Phase I
Paso Robles, California
Photography:
Insight Architectural Photography,
Josef Kasperovich
The program for Nanometer Technology Park consisted of both client-specific and speculative technological, commercial and industrial space set on a rural 7.39 acre parcel. The project encompassed three individual parcels build in three phases, of which this project is phase I.
Given the “high-tech” nature of the clients’ needs, as well as the rural, undeveloped nature of the site with its historically agricultural use, the design objective for the campus was to conceive a nexus of three components:
1) An industrial/agrarian construction sensibility
2) The adoption of common materials
3) The incorporation of urban “loft-style” interior spaces.
These components create an analogous representation of the seemingly incongruous “fiber optic cable end polishing” manufacturer located in a non-urban context.
The project is intended to invoke a sense of immediacy and purpose, respectful of the agrarian vernacular of the area. It endeavors not to ignore basic rules of design for congruency, harmony, unity, so much as to extend those rules to include serendipity and spontaneity as well. In much the same way that a farmer might build with materials immediately available on hand to create continual additions to his constructions throughout the years, this design vocabulary lends a sculptural collage of quality to the Nanometer campus as well.
Construction materials used to achieve the design objective include cement plaster, concrete masonry block, both split face and precision, “color fin-ply” plywood panels, painted wood siding, galvanized corrugated metal panels, exposed structural steel, natural and stained concretes, internally illuminated coroplast panels, stainless steel cable railings, and expanded catwalk gratings.
Architect:
garcia architecture +
design
1037 Mill Street
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
George F. Garcia,
AIA,
Principal Architect
Tom Di Santo
Project Architect
Clint Iwanicha
Project Manager
Structural
Engineer:
PCSA, Inc.
General
Contractor:
JW Design and Construction
Masonry
Contractor:
Masonry by Darin
Block Producer:
Air Vol Block, Inc.
Owner:
Nanometer Technologies
