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PDD COMMERCIAL BUILDING
SAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIFORNIA
Photography:
Russ Kissinger, Erik Geil, Eric Amber
The PDD Commercial Building in San Luis Obispo, California, is a 40,400 square-foot commercial/retail development located in an industrial park behind two large volume grocery stores. The 500’ - 0” long x 59’ - 0” deep building actually spans six separate properties consisting of five 80’ - 0” wide lots and one 116’ - 0” corner lot. The design challenge was to create a completely separate building on each property and still make the group of buildings read as one project.
A typical 80’ - 0” lot can divide into two separate lease spaces each with a two-story retail/commercial area adjacent to two floors of office/retail space. All the tenants share a common parking lot. The building’s tenant mix has created a small “design center”.
Masonry was the obvious choice for a building that sits on six different lots and requires fire rated “zero lot line” walls at each property line. The building also has a relatively flat front facade and masonry allowed us to undulate the exterior very efficiently both in plan and in elevation on a very tight site. The tan colored, vertically scored split faced block “columns”, combined with the forest green standing seam metal canopies help to define the separate tenant spaces and gives the long building a comfortable, human scale. A tan colored “combed” block is used on all of the recessed surfaces. The smoother face of the combed block facilitates the ease of attaching the metal canopy roofs to the wall, while still giving the building face a rich texture.
ARCHITECT:
Kornreich
Architects
1135 Marsh Street
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
Garth
Kornreich, AIA
Principal
STRUCTURAL
ENGINEER:
Structural Analysts
GENERAL
CONTRACTOR:
Chad Pankey
MASONRY
CONTRACTOR:
Craig Lane
Masonry by Darin
BLOCK
PRODUCER:
Air Vol Block, Inc.
CLIENT:
Kimo Pankey
