Judges' Comments
- N/A
Project Data:
Completion Date: 11/30/2016
Square Footage: 421375
Building Use: High Density Multifamily
Location: Aliso Viejo, CA
Project Description:
This multi-family community completes Aliso Viejo’s latest ambitious master plan, a 21st century urban village more than two decades in the making. The project represents the missing link in a mix of new offices, live-work units, and a hotel, which together, establish the city’s burgeoning technology and biomedical engineering hub.
The creation of an expansive spherical public park between the project’s oasis pool and the amenity deck of the adjacent hotel forges the recreational centerpiece of the master plan. The tiered site offers many design opportunities, from angled corner units that pocket public art and landscaping, to the Sky Lounge, which captures breathtaking valley and mountain views. In scale and architecture, the 435-unit community projects the contemporary crispness of its adjacent uses, with a sophistication befitting of housing for top talent. It overlooks the valley with the city’s major lifestyle center, with entertainment, dining and shopping just a short walk away.
Interior to the project, the Oasis pool deck flows into a Mega Cabana, which leads to the discovery of an Outdoor Living Room in an adjacent courtyard. The four and five-story building surrounds a series of seven cascading courtyards, each uniquely programmed. Indoor-outdoor connections are also established between the pool deck and the Fitness Center, Game On Lounge and Zen Lounge. Spectacular visual connections are afforded to the second story “work from home” Connect Lounge and the top floor penthouse units.
The visually captivating community results from varied massing, building heights and color/material applications, including metal panel siding, glass balcony partitions and wooden brise soleil features. It embodies the aspirations of a young city for its future.
C.O.T.E. | Committee on the Environment
Submitted By: |
Architects Orange |
Design Architect: |
Architects Orange |
Associate Architect or Firm: |
Architects Orange |
Landscape Architect: |
Urban Arena |
Owner / Developer: |
Shea Properties |
Engineer: |
Civil Engineer: RBF Consulting Structural Engineer: VCA Structural Mechanical/Electrical/Plumbing: Green MEP Engineering Consulting, Inc. Geotechnical Engineer: Geocon |
General Contractor: |
Snyder Langston Residential |
Consultant: |
Interior Designer: H. Hendy Associates |
Photographer: |
Stephen Schafer, Schaf Photography Jeff Smith, Smith Photography |
Vantis Apartments
Category
Residential Planned Development