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Pacifica High School
Oxnard, California
Photography:
Daly Architectural Photography
Surrounded by new residential development, Pacifica High School’s 50-acre campus supports 2,250 students with 205,000 square feet of concrete masonry construction. Major design elements include a 600 seat theater, 25,000 volume library, 2,500 student gymnasium, and a multi-purpose student union and amphitheater. Community, student union, and academic functions are connected by a series of outdoor rooms that foster academic identity, promote educational excellence, meet student and faculty needs for safety and security, and achieve effective learning environments.
Adaptive architectural features resulting from open-plan building design and technology infrastructures allow for future expansion and change. A strong commitment to energy efficiency, environmental quality, permanence, and the desire for a distinguished architecture inspired the use of contextual masonry forms and features, and produced a model for green building design. Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS) design considerations were widely implemented to create energy-saving thermal mass, employ natural daylighting and cross-ventilation features, and to preclude the need for air conditioning in most academic areas. Masonry building strategies insured timely delivery and conformance with State allowable building costs.
The civic minded, university setting encourages students and staff to meet the challenges of economic and cultural diversity, technology, and globalization with new attitudes and thinking by the creation of integrated instructional neighborhoods, encouraging cross curriculum teaching, and by the robust use of interactive learning technologies, Seen as a community focal point, the campus responds with a clear and open plan that invites optimum use and community participation, integrates education and design, optimizes available funding resources, and produces optimum efficiency, flexibility, and facility use.
Architect:
WLC Architects,
Inc.
10470 Foothill Blvd., Tower Suite
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
91730
Larry Wolff, AIA
Principal
Structural
Engineer:
K. B. Leung and Assocites,
Inc.
General
Contractor:
C. W. Driver
Contractors
Masonry
Contractor:
Reyes Masonry
Block Producer:
Angelus Block Company,
Inc.
Owner:
Oxnard Union High School District
