Northwestern Division Police Substation by Safdie Architects
Del Mar, California
Photo © Brian Lima Photography
Photo © Brian Lima Photography
Photo © Brian Lima Photography
Image courtesy Jeff Katz Architecture
Architects & Firms
Completion Date: May 2009
Owner: City of San Diego
Program: A 22,000-square-foot police station and a 5,500-square-foot vehicle maintenance facility set on six acres.
Design concept and solution: The architects wanted to design a police station that would not appear institutional, contrasting displeasingly to the mostly residential context. To accomplish this, they designed the building to run parallel to the street to conceal the rear parking lot and vehicle maintenance facility. An eight-foot-high protective concrete wall was required for the building, so a central atrium was created to allow natural daylight into the structure. This natural lighting scheme and other sustainable features, such as photovoltaic power, contributed to the project’s LEED Silver certification.
Owner:City of San Diego Design Architect: Safdie Rabines Architects Ricardo Rabines, Principal Architect of Record: Jeff Katz, Principal Photographer: Brian Lima Photography CAD system, project management, or other software used: AutoCAD
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Consultants: Safdie Rabines Architects Consultants (Design Architect): Structural: Ray Flores, Flores Lund Consultants, 858.566.0626, www.floreslund.com MEP: Rahim Peyvan, Integrated Engineering, 213.736.6670, www.ieceinc.com Civil: Mike Wolfe, Fuscoe Engineering, 858.554.1500, www.fuscoe.com Landscape: Ming Hung, Wallace Roberts & Todd, LLC, 619.696.9303, www.wrtdesign.com Interiors: Designpoint, 619.697.0120 Green: Platt Whitelaw Architects, 619.546.4326, www.plattwhitelaw.com Hardware: Ronald E. Peterson, AHC, Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies, 619.447.3307, http://securitytechnologies.ingersollrand.com Specifications Writer: Bill Kelley Cost Consultant: Hanscomb Inc., 858.453.0224 Soils: Southland Geotechnical Consultants, 619.442.8022, Jeff Katz Architecture Consultants (Architect of Record): Mechanical: Jene Walsh, Walsh Engineers, 858-541-0788, www.walshengineers.com Electrical: Larry Zammit, ILA + Zammit Engineering, 858-279-0242, www.ilaz.com Landscape: Pat O’Connor, Parterre, 619-296-3713 Civil: Gordon Axelson, BDS Engineering, 619-582-4992, www.bdsengineering.com LEED Consultant: Drew George, Drew George & Partners, 619-818-3739, www.dgp-inc.com Energy Consultant: Beth Brummitt, Brummitt Associates, 619-531-1126, www.brummitt.com General Contractor: Marc Penick, TB Penick and Sons, Inc., 858.558.1800, www.tbpenick.com
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