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AMERICAN CANYON
COMMUNITY
AQUATIC CENTER
AMERICAN CANYON, CALIFORNIA
Funded as one of 25 State Joint Use Facilities, the American Canyon Community and Aquatic Center provides a recreational facility for the community of American Canyon and students of the Napa Valley Unified School District. The School District entered into a joint use agreement with the newly formed City of American Canyon to locate the facility adjacent to a new middle school. The City overwhelmingly supported the opportunity to provide the community with a much-needed recreational facility and to create a civic center for this new city. As a bedroom community for the San Francisco Bay Area, American Canyon lacked community and civic spaces.
The new community and aquatic center was planned and designed with considerable community and school district participation. Several community "town meetings" attended by hundreds of citizens and facilitated by the architect brought clarity to the types of needed recreational spaces. The facility provides a gymnasium with a stage, locker rooms, and coache spaces, a 25 yard six lane pool with a wading pool, changing facilities, showers and a concession stand.
Gestures to the aquatic center include the use of broad wave-like colored concrete bands on the ground plane. These "waves" are supported by varying colored turf as the bands make their way through the landscaping. Concrete block columns at the fences are capped in wave formed colored concrete cast stone. The use of varied colored concrete block is a gesture to bubbles in water, and provides an interesting exterior finish
ARCHITECT:
Quattrocchi Kwok Architects
636 Fifth Street
Santa Rosa, California
95404
Mark Quattrocchi, AIA
Principal In Charge
Lisa Palmer, AIA
Project Architect