Santa Barbara City College

The Luria Conference and Press Center (2010)

The project consists of the construction of three small separate buildings with associated flagged and landscaped upper plaza with integrated drainage system, utilities and paving in the Santa Barbara City College La Playa Stadium. Each building is approximately 400 SF in size with an aggregate total of approximately 1,000 SF. All buildings have steel structural frames, steel roof decking with composition roofing and rigid insulation on two buildings and a liquid applied rubber decking system over light weight concrete infill on one building. Major components include light gauge metal infill studs, cement plaster wall finish with manufactured stone wainscot, extruded aluminum storefront, doors and windows with tinted dual glazing and aluminum roll-up doors on the exterior. Interior finishes include color stained concrete floor, painted gypsum board wall finish and soffits, suspended acoustical ceiling system with recessed lighting, granite countertops on bamboo base cabinets, and wood interior doors. One of the conference rooms has a movable partition installed. Building insulation includes fiber batts in walls and spray on insulation under roof decks. New storm drainage piping shall be installed to receive new paving and roof top rainwater runoff. Completed 2010.

(All images are post-construction)