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Unbuilt Architecture
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| # 276 |
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| Completion |
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| Specific Use of Building |
Police Station |
| Project Location |
Victorville, CA |
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The Victorville Civic Park and Police Station are designed as the new social heart of the city, fostering a safer, more equitable, and healthier Victorville. Located directly across from City Hall and visible from Interstate 15 (historic Route 66) the project is an inviting destination that brings people together through play, culture, and community life.
Inspired by its Mojave Desert context, the Civic Park offers flexible, shaded spaces for gathering, recreation, and year-round celebrations, including: a splash pad, children’s playground, fitness trail loop, elevated stage and outdoor amphitheater, and pickleball courts. The park is anchored in the northwest corner by a relocated historic sheriff’s building from the 1800’s, and an existing mature Joshua tree that has been preserved from the previously undeveloped site. An interpretive Heritage Walk creates a procession to the historic building, weaving Victorville’s story into a connected experience designed to educate and inspire residents and visitors for generations. A welcoming Community Plaza at the northeast corner of the park creates an inviting entry experience to the Police Station and allows for indoor-outdoor connections at the building’s Multi-purpose Room.
The Police Station building layout focuses on efficient planning and operations to create a great workplace environment for law enforcement. State of the art functions, such as the Real-Time Crime Center, Briefing and Multipurpose Room, Evidence Processing, and Investigative areas are balanced with amenity zones that focus on officer health and wellness and create restorative connections to the outdoors, including: Break Room, Fitness Room, and Sleep pod Area. The program elements are organized by an experiential corridor: “The Route”, that allows for a large, north-facing monitor skylight at the roof to bring natural daylight deep into the floor plate. Pitched roof overhangs reference the local vernacular and provide shade and protection from the desert sun.
The building is connected to its surroundings with materials that embody the local ecology. The concrete masonry walls at the base of the building and around the secure parking area provide security and ballistics protection while referencing the color and texture of the desert landscape. The upper volume of the building is clad in metal panels that reflect the sky and seasonal changes. Where the building volume soars at the Public Entry and Multi-purpose Room a perforated metal graphic art panel works as both shade screen for the southern exposure and illuminated billboard to the community, visible from the rest of the Civic Center campus and the adjacent Interstate.
As an essential services facility, the building is designed for passive survivability in case of natural disaster. Onsite renewable energy generation, through photovoltaic parking canopies, takes full advantage of the abundant desert sunshine, while protecting the Department’s investment in patrol vehicles. The project out-performs its baseline EUI by 88%, currently designed with a pEUI of 10. |
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