The Pacoima Neighborhood City Hall will provide municipal outreach and create a grand public space for the citizens. The new complex will support the neighborhood with city services and a district council office, serve the expanding commercial district, provide civic spaces for community participation in governance and recreation, and offer additional neighborhood parking.
We believe the building should be visible, prominent,
and transparent; it should confer equal status on the city services and Citizen’s Hall; and the communal
public spaces must be a great attractor to all ages on a daily basis. In the tradition of public buildings,
the PnCH will be monumental, yet also informal
and populist— hence, the anti-monumentalism of its openness, accessibility, and transparency.
The construction is Type 3 above subterranean garage. The buildings are steel and wood frame with glass storefront/curtain wall, sunscreens and sarnafil roofing. The large central courtyard is a hard and soft surface. It is a 38,000 square foot site consisting of the 12,000 square foot building complex, public plaza and gardens, and the 21,000 square foot subterranean
parking. The project will be LEED certified. |
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principal
Michael Rotondi
PRoject team
kalin yordanov
john osborne
yip-yan tang
feng li
tenzin thoke (wangdu)
jim basset
assistants
alex san andres
roberto paz
jean-carlo carranza
raul aguilera
tatyana pankratov (Tanya)
limor nir-kraus
tyler Bornstein
makoto onishi
color / sinage / wayfinding
April greiman Made in space
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