Project Data:

Completion Date:     9/1/2021

Square Footage:      3700

Building Use:           Community Park

Project Description:

In today’s new home communities, everything is about hospitality. As they would with an award-winning boutique hotel, developers must consider the deeper narrative and life affirming ethos of project amenity spaces. Every space must tell an authentic and compelling story. Confluence Park accomplishes this goal with elegance and creativity. Confluence Park is the central park of a visionary master planned network of 4,000 new homes connected by trails and hallmarked by state-of-the art amenities. When tapped for the interiors of the “Community Lounge” building that is at the heart of the park, the team dove into the details. The team immersed in looking for ways to make the experience one that reflects the nature of the 21st century net-zero planned community, its sustainability goals, and the desire to create an environmentally conscious design that would remain relevant in decades to come. The interiors team worked to make a place that offers comfort, respite and delight for casual resident visits and larger special events, while framing the mountain views and acknowledging the nature of the local area. The interiors scope extended to the triple pool complex and community garden. Our team's Interior Design and Procurement Studios worked in tandem to take the idea of aspirational luxury and apply it to every detail in an environmentally sustainable manner.

The community lounge interior features soft textures, natural hues, intriguing geometries, and lush hanging gardens wrapped into custom millwork provide the setting for guests to enjoy the expansive views to the mountains. While, brass and wood finishes, custom metal elements, and uniquely hand-selected pieces elevate the space and fit the design inspiration provided by Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park, a local geological feature formed by ancient plate tectonics. The entry features an inspirational wall of 5,000 oranges, an art piece that greets guests with the subtle scent of oranges. Lastly, a hospitality bar and hanging gardens were used to bring the space together and further support the connection to nature.

The outdoor space showcases a 28’ slab of salvaged, windfallen Giant Sequoia was sourced to design a custom community table that will preserve and celebrate the beauty of the old growth redwood, evoking a story and inspiring new memories. Staying in theme, large artist murals and a 40’ abstract wall breathes life and movement into the outdoor amenity spaces. The neighborhood gathering space, the “Garden Home” is designed to be a working co-op headquarters equipped with precise tool storage and educational space. The space converts to a speakeasy-style hospitality space with a built-in service bar and under-counter equipment. A curated tool storage and video art wall was built to practically store daily use tools but also be a reminder of projects completed and memories shared. This is accomplished through an integrated media system using insert tables.

Firm Name:              RDC-S111

Completion Date:     9/1/2021

Square Footage:      3700

Building Use:           Community Park

Location:                 Valenica, California

Project Description:
Design for Equitable Communities, Design for Well-being
Providing welcoming, accessible, high-function amenities for a diverse range of ages, group sizes, and occasions -- Confluence Park aims to provide a community-building space with soft textures, natural hues, and refreshing greenery to complement a picturesque view of the outdoors. Confluence Park offers indulgent, yet approachable, amenity spaces designed to bring people together. Designed as a dual-purpose area, the community lounge offers a professional hospitality bar, a catering kitchen, circular bar, and indoor and outdoor seating for guests. Additionally, the entry experience includes a 12' wide, 6' tall piece with the wafting scent of oranges as a tribute to the oranges of the city of Valencia. Taking the theme of community into consideration, the neighborhood gathering space includes a gardening shed and speakeasy designed to be a working co-op headquarters equipped with precise tool storage and educational space. After work is completed, this space is converted into a speakeasy-style hospitality space with a built-in bar and under-counter equipment. The pool area is surrounded by high luxury style FFE along with elevated furnishings that evoke ideas of respite and relaxation usually only found at scheduled gateways.

Design for Change, Design for Integration
To create an eco-conscious design that will remain relevant for decades to come, the team immersed itself in exploring how the experience could reflect the nature of this century's net-zero planned community. A sustainable approach was achieved through bespoke furniture such as repurposed custom gathering tables created from weathered 1920’s flat storage cabinetry. Utilizing a RFI access system for residents, Our team created dual purpose tables sitting on top of geo-thermal heated stone slabs, to warm residents on cool summer evenings. The tables also have integrated drink wells to serve as planters or ice buckets depending on the event.

Design Architect:
RDC (Interior Architecture) AO (Building Architecture)

Associate Architect or Firm:

Landscape Architect:
Brightview Design Group

Owner / Developer:
FivePoint and the Newhall Land & Farming Group

Engineer:
Hunsaker & Associates

General Contractor:

Consultant:
Lighting design by Illuminate Lighting Design
Construction by Consolidated Contracting

Photographer:
RMA Photography