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Project Data:
Completion Date: 6/30/2017
Square Footage: 55000
Building Use: Art Exhibition and Performance
Location: Laguna Beach, California
Project Description:
The Festival of Arts, Laguna Beach, commissioned the Firm to design replacement facilities for the Festival’s 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, new Junior Art Exhibition area and new Wine Bar and Food Service areas. The Art Exhibition areas are located under new tensile roof pavilions covering six exhibition terraces. The new Performance Green provides park and performance space for music and other events – 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 – providing at grade and stepped access to all artist designed 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. The Exhibition Pavilion Roof forms allow views through to the surrounding Laguna Canyon and hillsides - while encouraging cooling ocean and canyon breezes for ventilation.
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 Gift 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 Landscape Architects |
Owner / Developer: |
Festival of Arts, Laguna Beach, California |
Engineer: |
Fuscoe Engineering - Civil Engineer MHP - Structural Engineer Henrikson Owen - MEP Engineer |
General Contractor: |
Turner Construction Company FabriTec Structures |
Consultant: |
Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design O'Connor CM |
Photographer: |
Tom Lamb |
Festival of Arts Exhibition Grounds
Category
Commercial