Challenge Description
Workplaces ought to enrich individuals’s work life, irrespective of their career. The office improvements which have improved non-public sector workplace environments—collaboration, stress-reduction, social connectivity—must also enrich public security workplaces. Regulation enforcement and emergency operations environments are dynamic and high-stress, they usually can profit enormously from modern emphasis on worker well-being, team-building, adaptability and resilience.
SOCIAL TERRITORIES DEFINE OPERATIONAL SPACES
This venture builds upon modern office analysis by creating an modern, versatile and user-centric public security work setting. This design prioritizes operational social territories to make structure out of the particularities of social engagement. Every social territory is designed with a novel technique for accommodating flexibility, daylighting, know-how, group interplay, and its relationship to the outside. Inside this new 38,200 sf headquarters constructing, every of the constructing’s social territories perform like a smaller building-within-a-building, prioritizing the flexibility to focus, collaborate, collect, and join.
The design options these social territories as discreet architectural volumes, sculpted to the operational wants of their packages. The critical-facility emergency operations middle thrives as an armature for collaboration, with a technology-rich, versatile open ground ringed by break-out rooms. The multi-use coaching and occasion corridor facilitates social gathering by an indoor/outside, adaptable house anchored by a redwood grove. Daylight and views of nature improve office focus within the administration and command workers areas, using mushy ambient daylight and an introverted workplace quantity to optimize solo work. To attach, a shaded-plaza entry trellis pinpoints the confluence of website and constructing circulation, participating the shared eating and health areas, and functioning as a campus crossroads.
New public security tasks that incorporate modern office improvements can validate the distinctive wants of officers, command workers and emergency responders. By prioritizing productive connectivity between individuals, and between individuals and nature, the general public security work setting will see instant operational and personnel advantages.
Particulars:
The brand new Contra Costa County Workplace of the Sheriff Headquarters and Emergency Operations Middle (HQ/EOC) is a 38,200 sq. foot, two-story LEED Gold headquarters constructing inside a bigger reconfigured 4.46 acre campus grasp plan.
The HQ/EOC homes the Workplace of the Sheriff’s command workers, the County’s Emergency Operations Middle (EOC), the Sheriff’s Administration workplaces, in addition to a versatile occasion house, a industrial kitchen, a shared break space, and a health room. The constructing is a necessary companies facility, designed to for instant post-disaster occupancy. It’s a metal second body construction, with ballistic resistant, profiled and clean precast concrete panels, and ballistic home windows; the white shade constructions are laser-cut painted metal plate.
The general redesign campus is 4.5 acres, and the venture included the adaptive reuse of the present EOC constructing as a brand new coaching facility. The location is configured for public parking, excessive safety workers parking, photo-voltaic panel arrays, stormwater retention and bio-filtration areas, a redwood grove, and improved entry to the array of present operational buildings within the space.
Design Challenges:
One key venture problem was to reconcile a sturdy safe technical facility with a collaborative mild crammed operational setting. Employees advantages from private interplay and stress mitigation, whereas safety required hardening and segregation. As well as, the ability was to have a public element, including a brand new layer of problem. The ultimate design reconciles these seemingly conflicting calls for by an strategy the place safety is clear and understated, and the social connectivity emphasised. One other design problem was that the venture was to be constructed utilizing a Design/Construct procurement methodology, with bridging paperwork clearly defining each the quantitative in addition to intangible qualitative points of the constructing and website design. Via a well-developed design/bridging set, continuity between design/bridging and design/construct was seamless and ongoing.
Bodily Context:
The context for this venture is an present County Authorities Middle campus, with a fragmented array of present buildings organized randomly on the multi-acre website. The Workplace of the Sheriff occupied just a few of the buildings, however with inter-building connections tenuous at finest. The up to date grasp plan technique cleared the present campus litter with a dramatic new east-west connector, demolishing unhealthy buildings, slicing/preserving these value restoring and anchoring the campus with the social facilities of the brand new HQ/EOC. This new connector hyperlinks the brand new constructing with the present buildings/operations, and extends the HQ social territories with a concentrate on coaching, dispatch, and implementation. Because the County Authorities Middle is in a suburban context surrounded by giant, industrial parcels, and a freeway, a key contextual amenity turns into the venture’s relationship to nature. To foster this relationship, entry to open air is prioritized with every division having a safe, devoted roof deck instantly adjoining to it. As well as, the central gathering space for employees and guests—a multi-purpose occasion house and lecture corridor—has a 30’-wide operable glass wall that lifts to open this huge room to a dramatic restored Redwood grove, providing a regenerative social attractor an outside amenity on the coronary heart of the venture.
Collaborators:
• Dreyfuss + Blackford Structure – Architect of Document
• Hensel Phelps Building Co. (DB-E) – Basic Contractor
• Vanir Building Administration, Inc. – Building Administration
• IDA Structural Engineers, Inc – Structural Engineer
• BKF Engineering – Civil Engineer
• WSP – Mechanical, Electrical, Lighting & Plumbing Engineer, LEED Marketing consultant
• Cummings – Price Estimating
• TS Stuido – Panorama Architect
• TRC Corporations, Inc. – Geotechnical
• Stansen Specs – Specs Author
• Kyle Jeffers Pictures – Photographer
