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
1101 Washington Place
San Diego, CA 92103
Tel: 617.297.6153
www.safdierabines.com

Ricardo Rabines, Principal
Taal Safdie, Principal
Fred Besancon, Designer
Colin McCroskey, Designer

Architect of Record:
Jeff Katz Architecture
6353 Del Cerro Blvd.
San Diego, CA 92120
Tel: 619.698.9177
 www.jeffkatzarchitecture.com

Jeff Katz, Principal
Jeff Zubik,
Robert Kingery
Anthony Damon
Bret Wilkes

Photographer: Brian Lima Photography

CAD system, project management, or other software used: AutoCAD

 

  

Consultants:

Safdie Rabines Architects Consultants (Design Architect):
Public Facility Design Consultant: TL Craig Architecture and Planning, 415.479.0616

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):
Structural: Simon Wong, Simon Wong Engineering, 858-566-3113, www.simonwongeng.com

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