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ST. MARY'S INTERFAITH
DINING ROOM
AND MEDICAL CLINIC
STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA
The newly expanded St. Mary's Interfaith Dining Room facility was added to an existing site already offering a variety of medical, educational, and social services to the homeless and indigent population in downtown Stockton, California. The construction was designed to offer a new dining hall and kitchen, restroom building, and medical clinic on a site located under a major elevated freeway interchange soaring overhead.
The dining hall serves daily hot lunch meals to over 400 patrons. In response to this volume, the 9,340 S.F. dining hall/kitchen and the 560 S.F. public restroom building incorporate concrete masonry units at all locations vulnerable to the heavy public exposure; particularly at the queuing areas. The masonry units provide a durable, functional, and easily maintainable building material. The CMU is left exposed and painted on interior faces. In addition, the 8x8x16 scored units offer a design texture and sense of permanence relating to the adjacent building finishes. Concrete masonry units were the most cost-effective solution responding to all the program requirements.
ARCHITECT:
Lesovsky Donaldson
Architects
4 S. Central Court
Stockton, California
Brent Lesovsky, AIA
Principal In Charge