Completion Date: 6/30/2017
Square Footage: 50000
Building Use: Art exhibition and music performance park
Location: Laguna Beach, CA
Project Description:
FESTIVAL OF ARTS - ART EXHIBITION GROUNDS
SHORT
The Festival of Arts, Laguna Beach, commissioned the Firm to design replacement facilities for the Art Exhibition Grounds. The design extends the newly completed Façade Replacement in reimagining the Festival as a nexus between the Village of Laguna and Laguna Canyon; between landscape and the built environment; between nature and art.
The Art Exhibition Grounds – consisting of new Art Exhibit Terraces, new public park and Performance Green, new public Restrooms also serving the 2,500 seat Pageant of the Masters Theater, a new Gift Shop and new Junior Art Exhibition area. The Art Exhibition areas are located in new tensile roof pavilions covering six exhibition terraces. The new Performance Green provides park and performance space for music event – covered by a seasonal shade structure. The reimagined Grounds are brought into compliance with all current accessibility standards and incorporate progressive sustainability features including storm water bio-retention, LED lighting, day lighting and natural ventilation and the use of rapidly renewable and recycled materials.
LONG
The Festival of Arts, Laguna Beach, commissioned the Firm to design replacement facilities for the Art Exhibition Grounds. The design extends the newly completed Façade Replacement in reimagining the Festival as a nexus between the Village of Laguna and Laguna Canyon; between landscape and the built environment; between nature and art.
The Art Exhibition Grounds – consisting of new Art Exhibit Terraces, new public park and Performance Green, new public Restrooms also serving the 2,500 seat Pageant of the Masters Theater, a new Gift Shop and new Junior Art Exhibition area. The Art Exhibition areas are located in new tensile roof pavilions covering six exhibition terraces. The new Performance Green provides park and performance space for music event – covered by a seasonal shade structure. The reimagined Grounds are brought into compliance with all current accessibility standards and incorporate progressive sustainability features including storm water bio-retention, LED lighting, day lighting and natural ventilation and the use of rapidly renewable and recycled materials.
The design organizes the Grounds around a new main walkway linking the new Façade entry to the Pageant of the Masters Theater in the Irvine Bowl. Art Exhibition Terraces flank both sides of this new main promenade and walkway – providing at grade and stepped access to all artist exhibition “booths”.
The Art Exhibition Terraces are under tensile fabric pavilion structures – providing sun and moisture protection. These light weight fabric over steel structures allow for controlled day lighting and increased natural ventilation and breeze through the exhibition areas. The tensile fabric structures also provide for many off season uses – including public and private gatherings, holiday events, car shows and the like.
A new Performance Green – at the lowest, flattest location on the site along Laguna Canyon Road – is flanked by the serpentine rammed earth wall of the Façade. This new park area is covered seasonally with a tensile shade structure – removed in the Festival off-season. A new stage creates a visual and acoustical terminus for the Green – while also housing a Green Room, Festival Kilns and Seasonal Storage.
Flanking the new Façade Entry is an expanded Festival Shop and Arts Sales area – with a new street front glass wall providing high visibility to the sales area from outside the Festival Gate.
The planning also developed a new Art Booth prototype for the artist booths. This modular system is demountable in the off-season allowing significant savings of material resources. The system includes built in power harnesses and supports the conversion of Artist Booth lighting to energy and resource saving LED lighting.
New paving and landscaping enhance the exhibition area and includes several new large caliper native trees replacing the invasive and diseased existing ones.
A new public restroom building – serving the Grounds and the Pageant Theater - doubles the women’s room fixture count while enhancing water use efficiency.
C.O.T.E. | Committee on the Environment
Submitted By: |
BAUER Architects |
Design Architect: |
BAUER Architects |
Associate Architect or Firm: |
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Landscape Architect: |
Spurlock |
Owner / Developer: |
Festival of Arts |
Engineer: |
FabriTec Structures - Tensile Roof Engineers Fuscoe Engineering - Civil Engineers MHP, Inc. - Structural Engineers Henrikson Owen - MEP Engineers |
General Contractor: |
Turner Construction Company - General Contractor FabriTec Structures - Prime Tensile Roof Contractor |
Consultant: |
Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design PlanNet Consulting - Low Voltage Consultants Webb - Food Service Consultants McKay Conant Hoover - Acoustical Consultants O'Connor CM - Cost and Schedule Consultants |
Photographer: |
Tom Lamb |
Festival of Arts Grounds
Category
Commercial
Description
The jury noted that this project exhibited a good continuity from concept to execution and they looked forward to seeing the project completed.
Congratulations Bauer Architects.
Winner Status
- Citation Award