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COMMON THEMES VOICED BY OUR GJPS COMMUNITY (as of 1/24/2021) Build one new high school on the current site Design a state-of-the-art campus style structure designed for 21st century learning Include excellent performing arts and athletic spaces with an athletic field house Incorporate more vocational learning options on the high school site Integrate safety and security enhancements that also eliminate the need for students to cross Hamilton Road for classes at Clark Hall
Design Achievement - The Gila River Indian Community District 1 Wellness/Multi-Purpose Center is part of the social safety net designed to care for community members in their time of need. DLR Group's design brings healthcare services into a single space to support people of all ages by providing a healthy gathering place. The center offers space for performances, community learning and activities, training and instruction and exercise opportunities. The convenience of the facility at one location allows all family members to participate in diverse activities together under one roof. Scope Summary - The new 28,000 SF center includes a full gymnasium, performance and assembly area, arts and crafts room, computer training and smaller instructional rooms. Amenities include a full-service kitchen, aerobics and weight room, youth recreation space and full locker/shower facilities. The building also includes office space for the District One Service Center with a nursing and exam area. An outdoor swimming pool and exercise trail rounds out the services of this complex. The center also includes a back-up generator and can function as an emergency shelter. DLR Group provided architecture services.
Design Achievements Beginning with a facility originally built in the early Sixties, this new facility reorganized the entire complex around several new buildings, including 24 skilled nursing beds, 96 assisted living apartments and memory beds, complete replacement of the food service facilities and mechanical systems. Design and construction was phased to allow for relocation of residents to existing spaces, then moving them back to new facilities as each area was reconstructed. Scope Summary Master Plan and Concept Design The firm created a $9.7 million master plan for expansion and renovation of the existing campus. The facility originally provided 146 skilled nursing beds and 15 independent living units. The master plan proposed the renovation of 42 beds, the construction of a new 80-bed skilled nursing unit, and the addition of 60 assisted living units. Expansion and Renovation Implementation of the master plan grew to a $13 million project involving the renovation of 40 existing SNF beds, expansion of the SNF, introduction of 96 new assisted living apartments, plus a complete replacement of the food service facilities and mechanical systems. All new and renovation work was done with minimal disruption to residents and operations.
Design Achievements This Psychiatric Hospital facility is organized around a central activity "street," available for a variety of group and individual activities. Circulation between patient areas, activity spaces and administration is through the street. In addition, therapeutic occupational and physical activities are organized on the periphery so that passage and interaction can become part of the daily routine of patients seeking treatment. Scope Summary In addition to the indoor activity areas, the entire facility is organized around a series of courtyards, fully enclosed and heavily landscaped, allowing for convenient visual access to the outside from virtually every part of the hospital. In addition, the window locations and quantity allow for access to spectacular views to the Santa Catalina Mountains and visual connections to the outside community.
The school was originally programmed to combine the best of the three most recent K-8’s constructed for the District. All buildings were arranged around a circular plaza, a concept carried over from Legend Springs, to be used by both the school and community. The Legend Spring’s administrative and multipurpose layout was implemented with cost cutting and operational refinements. From the Stetson Hill and Paseo Hill sites, DLR Group carried forward the notion of the three-courtyard arrangement of the classroom layout with the kindergarten area separated with dedicated student drop off area. This plan separates the student population into smaller learning communities. Also from Paseo Hills, the locker room layout was integrated into the Legend Springs multipurpose plan to create a new layout for Gavilan Peak. The challenge was to create a harmonious layout of these pieces that was functional and cost effective. The project’s most challenging aspect was the design and construction time to achieve the school’s opening August 22, 2002. DLR Group designed and prepared bid documents in less than three months for the first Regulatory Review and the contractor obtained regulatory approval to occupy in less than 9 months. DLR Group provided program verification, schematic design, design development, construction documents, bid negotiations and construction administration services.
Design Achievements Designed to meet the needs of a burgeoning client base in the Oro Valley area, this outpatient imaging center can accommodate up to nine imaging modalities within its 7,500 SF plan. The site and plan configuration was developed several years before a specific use was determined, which required an internal plan configuration that is highly efficient. Since imaging technology changes constantly, the building’s components were designed for flexibility, allowing changes in layouts, air conditioning and power to be accommodated with minimal disruption to patient services. Scope Summary This new radiological imaging center includes MRI, PET scan, CT scan and X-ray facilities. Since completion, several internal modifications have filled the building to its capacity for procedural necessities. The firm has provided ongoing services since 1995 to facilitate Radiology Ltd.’s expansion in the Tucson area. These multi-phase remodeling and expansion projects include the integration of new CT scanners, Magnetic Resonance Imaging units, support systems for the new PAX digital radiographic information exchange system, and associated staff support and patient areas.
Design Achievement – Banner Baywood Medical Center is located on a tight, urban campus in Mesa, Arizona. The design of the seven-story bed tower and new imaging wing maintains an intuitive path of circulation for patients, visitors, and materials despite the zoning and parking limitations of the site. The inpatient units create a patient and user-friendly environment, incorporating a triangular-shape floor layout which offers the most efficient flow for staff, keeping corridor travel distances to a minimum. The Baywood Medical Center implements Banner Health’s new finish and color standards to enhance the patient experience and eases wayfinding and orientation throughout the healing environment. Scope Summary – The 170,000 SF bed tower, interior remodel, and central plant expansion of Banner Baywood Medical Center followed the completion of a new 640-space parking garage and a 3,000 SF material management building. The first floor of the 7-story bed-tower accommodates a new entrance to the hospital including main lobby, registration, discharge, gift shop, dining room, and drop-off canopy. The second through fifth floors include a new 28-bed CCU/ICU unit, a 26-bed medical-surgical nursing unit, a pharmacy expansion, and cardio pulmonary unit. Floors six and seven are shell space for a future medical-surgical unit. Renovation to the existing hospital included diagnostic imaging, an operating room addition, Pre-op/PACU, laboratory, dialysis unit, pharmacy,and staff support spaces. All of the central plant’s chillers, cooling towers, associated piping, and emergency power generation were renovated and expanded to meet the utility needs of this growing campus. DLR Group provided master planning, architecture, mechanical and electrical engineering, and interior design.
COMMON THEMES VOICED BY OUR GJPS COMMUNITY (as of 1/24/2021) Build one new high school on the current site Design a state-of-the-art campus style structure designed for 21st century learning Include excellent performing arts and athletic spaces with an athletic field house Incorporate more vocational learning options on the high school site Integrate safety and security enhancements that also eliminate the need for students to cross Hamilton Road for classes at Clark Hall
The master plan began with understanding the site’s location within the Community as well as its relationship to the sacred Red Mountain lying to the northeast. The site plan was organized to establish a direct connection to this landmark that is a symbol of the community. The high school master plan designed the curve of the overall building form to embrace this visual relationship and in its radial pattern suggests recurring themes in the culture’s basketry designs. This project represented the first comprehensive educational master plan for the District. This plan included the DLR Group designed components of the Community’s new high school facilities, early childhood education center and their new auditorium. It also required and involved extensive coordination with the Education Department, Education Board and Community Representatives.
Outpatient Design Achievements 35,000 SF building addition for clinic, clerical and office space including restorative services, G.I. lab, specialty clinics and a pain clinic. Scope Summary This project was completed while Gresham & Beach was a regional office of NBBJ.   Emergency/Urgent Care Design Achievements At the time of completion, TMC’s emergency department was one of two Level 1 Trauma Centers serving all of Southern Arizona. Expanding from 9,000 SF to over 26,000 SF, the project allowed for an increase in patient visits by nearly 200%. Scope Summary The design effort for this 24-hour Level One Trauma Center required careful planning to ensure that the construction process and phasing caused minimal disruptions to the extremely sensitive and always hectic schedules of this major medical center. The project’s success relied heavily on the close working relationship established with emergency department staff, facilities management, contractors and designers - no patient treatment was delayed or hindered during nearly two years of construction.
Design Achievements The 75,000 SF, 40-bed expansion to the existing hospital raised the total bed capacity by one-third. Scope Summary Two floors of the five-floor addition are dedicated to general medical/surgical nursing. The ground floor includes a new cafeteria and expanded kitchen/servery, as well as several new meeting and conference rooms. The expansion includes approximately 15,000 SF of basement in an area where the water table is at 6’ below the surface.
Design Achievement - Yavapai Regional Medical Center (YRMC) is a locally owned, locally operated, not-for-profit hospital system serving the Prescott and Prescott Valley area. DLR Group's design for the East Campus Hospital aligns with the client's desire to immerse patients contemporary concepts of healing environments. In addition to meeting current needs, the facility can adapt to changes in protocols, procedures and technologies over time. Scope Summary -  This East Campus facility is located on a 27- acre parcel of grassland in Prescott Valley. It comprises a 50-bed hospital offering 24-hour emergency care and emergency physician coverage; a family birthing center, breastcare center, inpatient and outpatient surgical services, and intensive care units. As the area's population grows, the facility will expand and is designed to expand both horizontally and vertically up to 250 beds. The site's master plan also includes the ability to accommodate future medical office buildings and structured parking. DLR Group provided planning and architecture design services.
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DLR Group team members have designed a total of four new elementary schools for the J.O. Combs School District over the last five years, including Kathryn Sue Simonton, our first for the District. This 69,263 SF facility was designed to accommodate the tremendous growth that occurred in the District. It also served as a successful prototype for an additional school for the District, site adapted by DLR Group. The adaptation of Kathryn Sue Simonton (Jack Harmon Elementary) enabled the District to save on design costs, come in under budget, and improve on its completion schedule. A later DLR Group design for the District, Ellsworth Elementary, also became a successful prototype for the District, with DLR Group designing a site adaptation of that facility also (Ranch Elementary). All of the site adaptations allowed the District savings in costs, time, and incorporated improvements from each previous project.
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Design Achievement - The Agribusiness and Science Technology programs at the Chino Valley campus are intimately linked to natural resources. As a result the College desired a project with a building-as-teacher philosophy that also minimized environmental impact. With the College staff as vital members of the integrated design team the Chino Valley Agribusiness + Science Technology Center is a project that sets a new precedent for academic facilities in Arizona. The project not only was built for energy efficiency, but actually restored disturbed site areas with native vegetation and collecting site stormwater run-off into an engineered wetlands area. The end result was a natural, creative design that earned a Silver LEED Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. Scope Summary - Located on an 80-acre site, the 15,871 SF Chino Valley campus Agribusiness + Science Technology Center includes administrative office spaces; three agribusiness classrooms; a construction classroom, construction/agribusiness joint-use shop; distance delivery classroom; science lab; and computer commons.
Design Achievement – The design intent of Boulder Creek High School is to thoughtfully integrate desert conditions to create a unity between building and environment. Boulder Creek High School is designed around an academic house concept, offering a school-within-a-school atmosphere, the first model for the Deer Valley Unified School District. Each house has its own classroom science lab, computer lab, restrooms, and teacher planning center. DLR Group's design includes eight academic houses which subdivide a 2,000-student population into small learning communities so students can change classes within the house, rather than walk across campus from one building to another. The buildings are located around a student courtyard, and the more public facilities rotate around the public plaza. The public plaza area features a performing arts auditorium, an open air amphitheater, an outdoor reading garden, and a joint-use library shared with local community. Scope Summary – The scope of work for this 306,858 SF high school included academic buildings, a library, and administration buildings. Expansive glass, larger space volumes, open steel structures, and exposed mechanical systems lends a character and quality of design that elevates the spirit of education. DLR Group provided integrated architecture; structural, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineering; landscape architecture; interior design; and construction administration services for this project.
Scope: Scan full interior of the Rock Hall and produce a Point Cloud model in 3D format. Scope: Scan full exterior of the Rock Hall and produce a Point Cloud model in 3D format. Scope: Scan full existing Rock Hall site and Project site between Rock Hall and Great Lakes Science Center and produce a Point Cloud model in 3D format.
Design Achievement – Cultural and traditional values are the focal points to the San Carlos Apache Tribe and holistic health is tied directly to community and nature. DLR Group's design of this adult and juvenile detention center focuses on enabling the process of integrating the offender back into native population with extensive programming and educational opportunities. The public entrance honors the Apache custom of entering from the east. A modern, architecturally rounded shade reflects the traditional domed stick wikiup built by Apache and oriented to the four points of the compass. Earth toned colors, natural materials, and cultural motifs tie the building to the community and create a welcoming pedestrian entrance. Budget and staffing needs led to a solution combining juvenile and adult populations within one structure, taking advantage of sharing services such as visitation, food service, main control, and administration.Strict sight and sound separation between the adult and juvenile populations maintains focus on their distinct rehabilitation and safety needs.Scope Summary – This new 48,168 SF facility houses 108 adult inmates and 48 juveniles. A two-level dayroom adjacent to the cells serves as multipurpose and dining space. Each housing unit has an outdoor exercise yard adjacent to the dayrooms, covered with security mesh. Both the adult and juvenile units have classrooms, multipurpose spaces and workrooms to accommodate program and educational needs. The large multipurpose rooms are wired to accommodate video arraignment. DLR Group provided programming, architecture, and engineering services.
Scope: Scan full interior of the Rock Hall and produce a Point Cloud model in 3D format. Scope: Scan full exterior of the Rock Hall and produce a Point Cloud model in 3D format. Scope: Scan full existing Rock Hall site and Project site between Rock Hall and Great Lakes Science Center and produce a Point Cloud model in 3D format.
Design Achievements Situated on the campus of Yavapai Regional Medical Center, this ambulatory surgical center includes four full-sized operating rooms and three minor procedure rooms. Licensed as the first Residential Recovery Care Center in Arizona, four short-stay, private recovery rooms also provide an essential service to the surgical practice. Scope Summary With the capacity to provide any type of surgical specialty, the 20,000+ SF Center includes healing gardens viewed from patient rooms and the lobby, as well as natural daylighting throughout the building making it "very light and open". The project was challenged by a limited site and the necessity of maintaining operations and access to the existing outpatient surgical center while construction was completed on the new building, a mere four feet from the existing center. Because the site was further challenged by significant groundwater issues, the structural foundation and floor slab were isolated to allow for drainage and to mitigate migration of water into the building.
Design Achievement - The Arizona Department of Public Safety Southern Regional Crime Laboratory was housed in an aging, cramped former warehouse facility. Outdated and inefficient facilities slowed the turn-around time of evidence submitted to this state laboratory. The new facility, which is four times larger than the previous outdated lab, provides much-needed space for AZ DPS’s employees. DLR Group’s design optimizes the building floor plan and adjacencies to enable faster turnaround of test results. New spaces for updated, state-of-the-art equipment allow the agency to conduct tests that previously couldn’t be performed in Southern Arizona. Additionally, the thoughtfully planned integration of offices and labs used for analyzing criminal evidence and information provides a comfortable, controlled, and secure work environment. The building architecture is contextually appropriate to the desert surroundings and an arched metal roof references the nearby hangars at the Tucson International Airport. Scope Summary - This new LEED Silver certified two-story, 42,000 SF facility was completed in multiple phases. The facility contains a DNA/Serology lab, administration office, evidence warehouse, evidence receiving, walk in refrigerator and freezer, firearms lab, latent prints lab, toxicology lab, controlled substances lab, trace evidence lab, exam rooms, two instrument labs, a clean lab, an indoor firing range, and vehicle exam bay. Security measures in the design and construction include materials to withstand a Level 3 ballistic attack. The building incorporates diverse sustainable design strategies, including: abundant daylighting; use of low-VOC materials, and regional materials containing recycled content; water-conservation measures reducing consumption by 30 percent; and a steel frame structure using solar reflectance materials to mitigate the heat island effect. DLR Group worked in association with McClaren Wilson & Lawrie providing needs assessment, master planning, architecture, engineering, and landscape architecture services.
This new 69,263 SF, K-5 facility was the District's first site adapt of their successful prototype Kathryn Sue Simonton Elementary (K-8). The adaptation of the previous school enabled the District to save on design costs, come in under the $5,400,000 budget, and improve the completion schedule. The site adaptation was also able to include improvements from the previous project. Kindergarten classrooms are configured for easy, safe, parent pick-up and drop-off with oversight of the administration area. Classrooms are identified by dominate colors that enable children to easily find and relate to their learning spaces. A separate kindergarten play area is provided that also allows the children to enjoy the pleasant interior courtyard.   The site adapt also provided for the most optimal placement of the school facilities, with nearly all of the classrooms provided with natural light, and the interior classrooms with interior windows. High performance glass and high insulation values keep energy costs down and interior spaces comfortable. Efficient, cost-effective construction was also made a priority.
Design Achievements This design-build project involved 30,000 SF of new construction and the renovation of a small historic structure for low income retirement living. The new construction includes 64 bedrooms (48 with shared bathrooms and 16 with private baths), central dining room and multipurpose/TV/reading rooms that can be opened up to create one large space, kitchen, laundry rooms and sitting areas. Scope Summary The historic building was renovated for reception, consultation and administration office. The facility is planned around two large courtyards with resident rooms grouped into eight-room clusters. Each cluster is arranged around a common sitting area that opens into a courtyard.
This new 700 student, 63,000 SF elementary school for Queen Creek is based on the design of Desert Mountain Elementary School, an earlier DLR Group project for the same district. The design of the previous school had worked well for the district, so it was selected as the basis for a new prototype. The design of the previous school had worked well for the district, so it was selected as the basis for a new prototype. District priorities for the new school included repeating the all-masonry construction and the central plant mechanical system. The design team took on the challenge of providing these features within a modest budget. To meet the budget, the new design took on a more volumetric, contemporary architectural character than the previous design. Exterior volumes and elements of masonry and stucco are differentiated with a rich combination of desert-inspired colors that harmonize with the surrounding neighborhoods. Working with the Desert Mountain staff, floor plan revisions were made for the new school in response to their observations of how Desert Mountain ES was actually used and their experience of "living" with the design. The multipurpose room was enlarged, more display space was incorporated throughout the school, and specialty spaces were added for special education needs. The administration area was also redesigned to improve access to the health center and the staff workroom.
Yavapai College engaged DLR Group to provide planning and design services to transition an existing college center to a full-service campus in response to a rapidly growing enrollment base. The resulting master plan provided a scheme for an orderly development of the site over the next ten years.   The Yavapai College's Chino Valley Center provides educational opportunities for residents in and about Chino Valley, north of Prescott, in north-central Arizona. The unique curriculum (including programs for construction technology, agribusiness technology, biotechnology, equine studies, forestry management and golf course management) offered by the Center makes it an increasingly attractive educational venue for many students from outside the immediate area as well.   Central to the mission of the Chino Valley Campus, and at direction of the College Board, sustainability in as many aspects of the campus development as possible was mandatory. This meant that concerns of energy use, site utilization, water conservation and treatment and many other factors had to be considered at each step of master plan implementation, no matter how incremental the advance. The current leadership at the campus appreciates this conceptual framework and has consistently pursued the path of responsible stewardship of the land and its resources.
Design Achievement: Making a virtue of necessity, this project resulted from a June 2020 storm blowing in across Lake Erie and destroying the stagehouse of this 1928 former vaudeville theater. DLR Group worked with the insurer, contractors, and the owner to stabilize the building, putting in place new steel trusses and enclosing the structure to withstand the winter. At the same time, we collaborated with Sandusky State Theatre’s staff to reimagine an upgraded and expanded venue that will position the theater as the cultural anchor of downtown Sandusky, Ohio. Taking advantage of historic tax credits, the project rebuilds and enlarges the stagehouse to match the historic buff brick of the original while a contemporary addition of bronze colored metal and glass wraps the existing building on two sides. Scope Summary: The expanded stagehouse will allow for additional programming, including touring Broadway shows. Along with back of house support space, restrooms, and concessions, the new construction contains an art gallery, a multi-purpose gathering space, and a new black box theater. Raised above grade, a covered exterior terrace creates a quintessential “third space” that overlooks this flat floor flexible venue and will be open throughout the day for public use and/or rental events. The project includes upgraded theatrical, audiovisual, and lighting systems for both venues. A third of the auditorium was also destroyed in the storm so those original neoclassical finishes—including six murals depicting historic local events—will be restored and/or replicated. Finishes for all new spaces, including a bar within the historic building, are contemporary. DLR Group is providing architecture, engineering, interiors, acoustical design, audiovisual design, fundraising support, IT/telecommunications, lighting design, preservation, and theater design.
Design Achievement - Scottsdale Unified School District's new Coronado High School creates a fresh presence on an existing campus in a phased sequence of new construction and demolition. DLR Group's design respects the past history of the school and community while embracing the future. Design elements were taken from the 1962 campus, including the folded-plate roof and preservation of the large fine-arts mosaic on a prominent location of the new performing arts building. The buildings were designed for efficient, cost-effective construction, and nearly all of the classrooms provide natural light. Interior classrooms use interior windows to open up space. High performance glass and high insulation values keep energy costs down and interior spaces comfortable. The glass block perforations of the multipurpose space create a playful interior space while allowing natural light to filter through. Scope Summary - The new two-story 163,600 SF classroom building accommodates 1,500 students and wraps around a central courtyard. The circulation courtyard then reaches from the classroom building to the gym, cafeteria, auditorium/performing arts buildings and vocational classrooms, creating active and passive areas. The improved line of sight throughout the open campus creates a safe and secure environment for staff and students. DLR Group provided architecture, engineering, and interiors services.
Design Achievement - This multiple award-winning facility, featured in Architectural Record as one of its exemplary Schools of the 21st Century, embodies a District's vision for a small school learning environment on a large school campus. DLR Group's design respects the District's mission of providing all students with equal opportunities to succeed. Classes and services are clustered in small learning communities (SLCs), which serve as specialty schools with a different core curriculum. Having elective curriculum pieces focused at different schools lends an identity to each SLC and encourages socialization between students. All students use the shared library, performing arts, physical education and food service facilities, which also enhance the interaction among students. These locations provide large spaces for presentations and lectures, small spaces dedicated to group learning, and contemplative spaces to support individual learning and reflection. Scope Summary - The 345,000 SF high school serves 2,400 students and is flexible to easily change with evolving curricular delivery models. Each SLC consists of learning spaces, administration, counseling and resource and computer labs surrounding a large central, multi-use gathering area. The campus is connected by a meandering path for primary circulation. Student Services, located at the heart of the campus is where visitors enter and students gather at the Library and Cafe. Fresh air, daylight and expansive views are highlights of this project. Energy efficient features include a highly performing building envelope and an efficient central chiller system. Indoor air quality is enhanced by careful selection and use of low VOC emitting, low maintenance, and local/regional materials. DLR Group provided planning, architecture, engineering, and interiors services for this project.
Located below grade at the University of Arizona Mall, the new Integrated Learning Center (ILC) concept is the result of a planning effort devoted to a new direction in undergraduate education at the University of Arizona. The facility furnishes the necessary space and technologically advanced resources to deliver a common curricular experience, and will furnish at academic/intellectual "home base" for freshman students. An Information Commons, which is connected to the Main Library at its lowest level, provides a central technology resource with computers and computer access points for freshman use.   The project includes several large 150-seat lecture halls, a 300-seat auditorium and class/discussion rooms all with multi-media presentation capability. Administrative functions of the facility include freshman advising and tutoring. The project features a central courtyard open to the Mall above which provides abundant natural light to the Information Commons and administrative offices. The courtyard also functions as a flexible gathering space for faculty/student interaction and campus-wide functions. The entire design and planning scheme has been directed toward humanizing the environment and minimizing any psychological effect that a person might have being underground.
Project to be developed on 320-acre site in Eloy, Arizona, owned by Corrections Corporation of America. Project will be allnew construction and consist of 1,596 beds using a 360-bed prototype celled housing unit and , a special design 78-cell segragation/ 156 General Population (doubled) housing unit. All related support and program spaces, and overall utility infrastructure to support only 1,596 beds, utilizing on-site water and waster water treament systems.
The Saguaro High School project was part of a $217 million bond passed by Scottsdale Unified School District for extensive facility upgrades at the five existing high schools.The project consisted of new classroom and administration buildings, expansion and interior renovation of the gymnasium and auditorium lobbies, remodeled kitchen and servery, central plant retrofit, renovation of existing media center building and gymnasium locker rooms, new athletic fields and central courtyard, and a redistribution of parking areas to improve neighborhood vehicular traffic.   The project was built in a series of phases that allowed for the campus to be fully operational throughout construction. Construction began in 2006 with a new academic and administrative building in the existing parking area, then proceeded with demolition of several buildings to make way for the next phase of new construction. Renovation was completed after functions were relocated to new buildings. Only the Performing Arts department was relocated to temporary spaces until construction and renovation of their spaces is complete. New sports fields were phased in as early as possible to minimize impact on the athletics program.
Design Achievement - Hollywoodland development spans over 2 million square feet and aims to bring a dynamic mixed-use development to Middletown, Ohio. The riverfront destination will include retail, live music venues, amusement attractions, hospitality components, a convention center, and a waterpark. Located at the heart of the historic downtown, DLR Group’s design incorporates the existing Main Street buildings as part of the façade of the new development and becomes a connector into the new retail shopping center. The new development uses the river’s edge to draw inspiration from water with a fluid tensile roof structure forming an iconic landmark that will be lit with the magical energy of Hollywood to create an iconic gateway. The tent style structure is used to create an enclosed and functional year-round park. This also allows for graphic ceiling projection to create movement and versatility on the structure. Outdoor environment spaces connects the riverfront to the project, offering energy to spaces between that draws the traffic from the mall all the way to the river. Hollywoodland Middletown offers immersive elements to create a unique experience that serves as a premiere entertainment destination and the new social hub of the community. Scope Summary - Hollywoodland Middletown is a monumental mixed-use complex designed to bring unique and distinctive amenities and energy to Middletown Ohio. The project’s scope includes a shopping center, boutique and resort hotels, convention center, food + beverage options, live music venue, an indoor amusement park, residential, and filming sound stages. The goal for Hollywoodland Middletown is to create a best-in-class destination for southwestern Ohio attracting guests to this fantastical destination that maintains a contextual connection to the town and the river. Sitting on the Miami river, Hollywoodland is designed with the flow and movement of the elements in mind, defining a deep sense of place. The project is planned to be a sustainable destination with thoughtful landscaping and irrigation systems to preserve the community’s goals. The project is projecting for a completion by 2024. DLR Group provided concept design services.
This project entailed the addition of one floor to the West Pod of the existing, award-winning Main Library Building. The new floor adds 22,000 SF of space, while an additional 56,000 SF of renovated space on Levels 1 and 2 provide for the renovation and expansion of Special Collections and the Udall Congressional Archives. Freestanding, movable display cabinets and panels for the exhibits provide flexibility for the changing needs of the facility's ever changing collections.   The renovation of the first level of the Main Library connects to the Integrated Learning Center's Information Commons located below grade. The Main Library Technical Services addition on the fifth floor provides new office, conference/meeting and other ancillary support spaces that create an inspiring new, non-public work environment for library staff. Systems furnishings occupy virtually the entire floor with a central sky lighted core for both conference and discussion rooms. The Bookend Cafe was a later addition to the scope of work, transforming a formerly dark, unused section of the outdoor plaza between the Main Library and the Special Collections buildings into a bright and inviting self-service cafe.
In designing the J.O. Combs Unified School District's first high school, the design team was challenged to develop a creative and innovative campus on the restricted design conditions and budget of the Arizona School Facility Board guidelines. Our goal was to reinterpret these limitations as opportunities for creating a striking architectural character that would enhance the experience of learning and working.   This opportunity was developed in the architectural character of the new high school which takes inspiration from Mondrian art integrating the dynamic composition of simple planes with overlapping and interlocking volumes. Simplicity, proportion, color, light, shadow, views, nature and balance are celebrated throughout the design. The dominant orange grid-work wall caps off stairwells and anchors the campus in playful dimensions, establishing a framework of dynamic compositions that maximizes creativity on an SFB budget. The approximately 233,740 SF facility is designed to accommodate 1,700 students in grades 9 through 12, and is comprised of: a two story Learning Community Building, Gymnasium / Cafeteria / Performing Arts Classrooms Building, Library / Science / Life Skills Center, Administration Building, baseball and softball fields, soccer field, football stadium and practice field, tennis and basketball courts and amphitheater. The site was also master-planned for future buildings including a separate 1,200-seat Auditorium building, a separate public pool and restroom/concession/athletic fieldhouse buildings.
This design/build project involves a new parking garage structure for 1700 vehicles and a separate, freestanding 16,000 SF office building. The complex sits along Sixth Street, a major traffic artery directly south of the University of Arizona main campus. The project features an intermodal transportation plaza for public bus, bicycles, motorcycles, and the University shuttle systems. The office building houses workspace for the Parking and Transportation Services Department, including a customer service lobby for permits, registration, enforcement and fees payment. The structures have been carefully designed to enhance the urban context of Sixth Street, with an emphasis upon pedestrian amenities and human scale.
NFL Red Carpet Event:: DLR Group to provide structural review of the planned tent, ballast and installation equipment / machinery.
Design Achievement - This boutique hotel in Scottsdale, Arizona is a feat of vibrant modernization, as the existing 20-year old Hampton Inn hotel was transformed to give business travelers and guests a new and inspiring experience through a new Hotel Indigo brand.  DLR Group's design met the challenge of working with the dated, low-ceiling facility on a limited site by introducing creative and colorful renovations. Designers incorporated a sweeping balcony with breathtaking views of the mountainous landscape that overlooks the main entrance. Large-scale murals, an expression of local art, frame the hotel on either side while the interior continues the vivid color scheme. Interior wall murals, hardwood floors and refurbished guestrooms and public spaces with custom designed furniture create an inviting aura for travelers ready to enjoy the comfort of Arizona hospitality in the trendy Old Town Scottsdale. Scope Summary - This project encompassed exterior and interior renovation of a 4-story, 7,000 SF hotel. Interior improvements included 126 guestrooms and public spaces. A new 1,400 SF balcony addition with some windows enlarged into doors on the west side, gives human scale to the hotel and offers wonderful mountain views to guests.  The pool area was expanded, new site walls and landscaping were added, and there was also repaint of the exterior.  DLR Group provided architecture and engineering services.
This 739-space parking structure is located immediately adjacent to the main entry of the University Medical Center. The garage is kept low in height and the corner of an otherwise rectangular plan is chamfered to reveal the hospital entry to passing motorists. A screenwall on the chamfer conceals the cars. It was because of this wall, which plays the dual role of both concealment and dominance, that it seemed appropriate to make it a decorative piece of the landscape. It was first given an undulating form to capture shadow and then patterned to give it added interest.   The pattern is an intricate double pattern of white and dark red brick on a mid-toned reddish-colored field. The white brick is composed of evenly-numbered brick progressions, while the dark red brick is an uneven number of progressions. The result is a pattern which repeats each 47 courses; therefore, the pattern takes on a double scale, one which is perceived at thoroughfare speed an another which becomes clear while strolling. The garage is further enhanced by trellises on the upper deck which soften the deck’s otherwise sense of emptiness. Interest is also achieved by the superimposed walkways which connect the garage to the hospital.   This project was completed while Gresham & Beach was a regional office of NBBJ.
Desert Oasis is the second new school for the Nadaburg District within the last five years. Nadaburg Elementary, also designed by DLR Group, opened in 2004 and is a "Performing Plus" school as defined by the Arizona Department of Education. Desert Oasis is slightly larger than Nadaburg Elementary and serves 750 K-8 students with 34 classrooms including special education, science, art, music and a computer lab adjacent to the library. The entire facility is approximately 69,300 square feet and is fully funded by the State School Facility Board monies.
Design Achievement The primary materials are a custom-made galvanized siding and a galvanized corrugated metal panel. This skin covers an economical metal building structure that provides a large open space for the team’s workouts.  In contrast to the open flat floor required in the Wrestling facility, the Gymnastics team requires a series of recessed floor pits to accommodate mats, padding and other impact reducing equipment. This creates a complex floor system consisting of many below-grade retaining walls and customized column placement to avoid these pits. Scope Summary The facility also includes locker rooms and showers for the team, smaller locker rooms and shower for the male coaches, handicapped accessible restroom facilities, an office and a sports medicine office. The overall size of the facility will be 132’ x 80’ with a 20’ eaves height. A landscaped courtyard connects the two facilities allowing a place for social interaction among the athletes and also for fundraising events. During the summer when ASU hosts the high school wrestling summer camps this outdoor courtyard gives the camp directors an optional outdoor space for workshops, small study groups or social gatherings. Shade structures, barbecue facilities and seating options complete the layout. The new Gymnastics Facility was built through the Sun Angel Foundation for the ASU Athletics Department.
The primary focus of the campus renovation was to create two new classroom buildings having the learning environment needed to support a collaborative method of curriculum delivery. This revitalization projects a new image to students as well as to the surrounding community through creation of a consistent architectural character. Problem \| Classrooms and common area were designed with operable panels for subdividing rooms into various groupings of students, as programmed with the District. The installed panels were not smooth enough for easy operation and transition. Solution \| DLR Group worked directly with the manufacturer’s representatives to make no-cost changes to the overhead track system to enable greater ease of operation.
NFL Red Carpet Event:: DLR Group to provide structural review of the planned tent, ballast and installation equipment / machinery.
A new 970-seat sanctuary with a lower level for Christian education provides much-needed space for the growing congregation in northwest Tucson. Designed for both traditional and contemporary services, the sanctuary’s acoustics have proven to be excellent for all types of music including symphony orchestras. Adam Boyles, conductor of the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra, says St. Andrew’s is "... perhaps the finest venue for symphonic music in Tucson ..." State-of-the-art acoustical, sound, audio-visual and lighting systems support the extensive music programs offered by the church. The rectangular sanctuary features a balcony, timber framing and an extensive use of skylights to balance natural and artificial lighting. It is surrounded with a sky-lighted ambulatory that creates a beautiful ambient quality of light for the congregation. The 25’ high ceiling is supported by a timber truss work that divides the sanctuary from the ambulatory. Stained glass windows salvaged from another church are used to enhance the interior. Simplicity of concept has produced a building with outstanding performance characteristics and memorable appearance.
The master plan began with understanding the site’s location within the Community as well as its relationship to the sacred Red Mountain lying to the northeast. The site plan was organized to establish a direct connection to this landmark that is a symbol of the community. The high school master plan designed the curve of the overall building form to embrace this visual relationship and in its radial pattern suggests recurring themes in the culture’s basketry designs. This project represented the first comprehensive educational master plan for the District. This plan included the DLR Group designed components of the Community’s new high school facilities, early childhood education center and their new auditorium. It also required and involved extensive coordination with the Education Department, Education Board and Community Representatives.
Design Achievement - The logistical challenges of having departments scattered across the border town of Nogales, Arizona reduced the performance of public safety services provided by first responders in Santa Cruz County, including slow response times to the community as well as inefficiencies in operations and communication between departments. DLR Group's design fulfills the County's desire to optimize operations by eliminating the isolated and aging buildings located in the flood plain of the city. This facility literally and figuratively elevates the image and stature of the Santa Cruz County justice system through excellence in design, architectural identity, and functionality. The new Justice Complex now presents a unified front for the community to easily access public safety and justice services in one central location. Scope Summary - This multi-functional project combines a new sheriff's office, courthouse, adult and juvenile detention into a single 164,700 SF facility. The new sheriff's office and jail facility more than triples the space and beds available for the County, as well as potentially opening beds to be leased to other agencies including the U.S. Marshall's office. Adult detention now accommodates 348 inmates and juvenile detention houses 32 individuals. Five new courtrooms are located on the upper level of the justice building with public counters, administrative offices for the clerk of the court and parole officers located on the first floor. Sustainable design strategies make for an efficient operation and included day lighting techniques and high efficiency mechanical systems. DLR Group provided planning and architecture services.
Design Achievement - The University of Arizona Medical Center is recognized for teaching new health care professionals and conducting groundbreaking research through the physician-scientists of the University of Arizona College of Medicine. DLR Group's design for this expansion at the University Medical Center encompassed four floors and basement spaces to enlarge the imaging center, add a new emergency department, and completely re-oriented and reconstructed a surgical suite with 14 operating rooms. Scope Summary - The 479-bed, 167,000 SF project added a Level I and Level II recovery, sterile core, staff support space, new outpatient waiting room, a new central processing department, kitchen expansion, new heliport and support space for pilots and paramedics, and a 110-bed addition of acute care nursing units including BMT, ICU, telemetry and medical/surgery. DLR Group provided planning and architecture services.
The new Four Peaks Elementary School will be located on a net 7.3 acre site on the north side of the existing Four Peaks Elementary School campus. The 58,500 square foot facility is comprised of five buildings designed to accommodate 650 students ranging in grades K-5, and complement the Apache Junction Unified School District's curriculum. Four of the buildings will be constructed in Phase 1 and one of the classroom buildings will be constructed in Phase 2. An additional classroom building is masterplanned for future development. The site organization of the buildings and play fields lends itself to a controlled environment for security purposes, and is planned for community use of the playing fields on the east side of the site. The project is designed to exceed the minimum Building Adequacy Guidelines set forth by the State of Arizona School Facilities Board. The campus layout separates the 1st through 5th grade classroom buildings from the music/band classroom, Multi-Purpose room / Cafeteria, Kindergartens, play areas and similar activities, which can be very disturbing to the general classrooms. In this manner, the campus plan is organized into "passive" and "active" areas. The "passive" general classroom buildings are associated together and separated from the other "active" functions by the courtyard gathering space, so as not to disturb the classroom space. The campus layout and classroom building clusters facilitate an organized separation of grade levels while maintaining a very efficient net to gross building area ratio.   Grouping the buildings around a central courtyard, coupled with a simplified and strategically placed corridor system in the classroom buildings, allows good supervision of students as they move about the campus. Strategically located administrative and play areas also allow supervision of smaller increments of students. Fencing between the buildings provides a clearly defined and secured campus perimeter with limited access/egress points primarily at the north and west ends of the circulation axis, located between the Media Center and Administration Center. The site is designed to engage the activities of teachers and students, staff, maintenance personnel, community and parents, into one campus while providing everyone with a sense of place. Architecturally, the appearance of the site will be kept to a human scale, allowing buildings and landscape to become part of the surrounding environment. The location of the existing school campus at the south side of the new campus, and the desired placement of the bus loop on the north end of the site and the play fields along the east side of the site, dictates the locations of the campus buildings
Design Achievements The Artificial Kidney Center opened by the Dialysis Foundation of Southern Arizona is located west of St. Mary’s Hospital. Now operated by Gambro Healthcare, this facility primarily serves Native American and Hispanic patients. Scope Summary The 12,400 SF building includes 16 dialysis treatment stations with views of the inner courtyards, as well as a centralized business office for the Dialysis Foundation. Four dialysis stations operate on the patio when weather permits. The facility also features an innovative system for distributing chemicals used in the dialysis process to each individual treatment station.
Design Achievement – A growing fan base in Professional Baseball’s Cactus League spring training encouraged the City of Tempe and the Arizona Sports and Tourism Authority to fund significant renovations and improvements completed for the Diablo Stadium Complex, home of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. The most visible improvement that DLR Group’s designers completed to the outside of the stadium includes a new stadium entry with a grand staircase and landscaping. Player’s amenities were also part of the designed improvements and include a renovated major league clubhouse, a new minor league clubhouse, and additional practice fields and batting tunnels. Scope Summary – DLR Group’s renovations to Tempe Diablo Stadium include several seating areas. Renovations increased the area of berm seating and current bleacher-style seating was replaced with modern fixed seats behind home plate. Designers also inserted a new scoreboard to update the look and feel of the stadium as well as a new stadium entry. Four additional practice fields were added to the existing landscape in a clover leaf fashion. These fields can be used by the community as well as the players. Two major league half fields were also inserted into the same landscape to encourage more games to be played. Six new covered batting tunnels assist in the developmental skills of young aspiring players eager to make it in the spotlight. The existing Clubhouse also received an upgrade to service the visiting team. All of these improvements enhance the picturesque views of the mountainous desert terrain displayed at Diablo Stadium.
NOT TO BRAND STANDARDS Re-imagined the work environment by lowering workstation panels, adding adjustable-height desks, and introducing open collaboration spaces. Created a newsroom feel with the introduction of a media wall, assignment desk and work café. Refreshed all finishes, upgraded to Led lighting, and added sound masking in work areas. New furniture and finishes in lobbies. +/- 80,000 SF, $1 million total renovation budget
The logistical challenges of having departments scattered across the border town of Nogales, Arizona reduced the performance of public safety services provided by first responders in Santa Cruz County, including slow response times to the community as well as inefficiencies in operations and communication between departments. DLR Group’s design of this new facility fulfills the County’s desire to optimize operations by eliminating the isolated and aging buildings located in the flood plain of the city. This facility literally and figuratively elevates the image and stature of the Santa Cruz County justice system through excellence in design, architectural identity, and functionality. The new Justice Complex now presents a unified front for the community to easily access public safety and justice services in one central location. This multi-functional project combines a new sheriff’s office, courthouse, adult and juvenile detention into a single 164,700 SF facility. The new sheriff’s office and jail facility more than triples the space and beds available for the County, as well as potentially opening beds to be leased to other agencies including the U.S. Marshall’s office. Adult detention now accommodates 348 inmates and juvenile detention houses 32 individuals. Five new courtrooms are located on the upper level of the justice building with public counters, administrative offices for the clerk of the court and parole officers located on the first floor. Sustainable design strategies make for an efficient operation and included day lighting techniques and high efficiency mechanical systems. DLR Group provided planning, architectural, engineering, and landscape architecture design services.
Design Achievements Designed in association with ASCG of Albuquerque to meet the health needs of this very remote Tribe, this facility will include primary care, imaging, laboratory, pharmacy, dental care, and patient records management. Scope Summary It will also include space for Makah Tribal Health programs, as well as full Wellness and exercise programs. Since the existing clinic now sits at sea level, the new clinic’s site is situated well above the anticipated 40-foot elevation required to avoid tsunami flooding.
This replacement school was constructed on the current play fields of the existing site, and next to the Madison School District Administration Building. The architectural character of the new school was designed to harmonize with the existing district office by using similar massing, materials, masonry colors and textures. Goals articulated by the site-based design committee included an architecture that showcased the district's long history while projecting a timeless, contemporary image to the community. Opportunities were created throughout the new facility to showcase the extensive collection of historical memorabilia as well as current student work and achievements.   One of the primary determinants of the design concept was line-of-sight. The existing campus configuration, supervision, and security were a challenge for staff. In the new design, a courtyard campus concept maximizes line-of-sight from the furthest vantage points and provides a dynamic outdoor area for student gathering and recreation without leaving the building area. The courtyard works as an oasis for student gathering and socializing. Various levels of activities are accommodated in active and passive zones featuring a grass mall, play courts, and shaded seating areas.
Design Achievement: The BioMedical Engineering Complex Phase 2 project will mark the completion of a significant series of buildings for the College of Engineering. Located on Main Campus, the project includes the full renovation of MacQuigg Hall and an addition at the site of the former Watts Laboratory. Once complete, Phases 1 and 2 together will create a single, unified facility to meet the research and teaching needs of the College of Engineering. Phase 2 adds innovative, high-performance teaching laboratories for Biomedical Engineering, Material Sciences Engineering, and Electrical and Computer Engineering, as well as a new Dean’s suite, modern workplace environments for the College of Engineering Administration, faculty and post-doc offices, and study areas. Significant landscape improvements, including an entry plaza, and outdoor makerspace area, and an extended green space on the north side will be created as existing and new facilities are brought together. Scope Summary: The design for this 124,000 GSF project supports the concept of ‘Engineering on Display’ through the integration of public spaces to tell the story of business and engineering collaborations. Research laboratories and maker-spaces will optimize and enhance opportunities for research and education. Co-located engineering departments will facilitate interaction and resource sharing between disciplines, and maker spaces will provide opportunities for hands-on exploration and experimentation. Teaching laboratories will have modular and flexible furnishings and integrated technologies. The facility will be designed for future flexibility and to support engineering education in an adaptable and dynamic environment that meets the needs of students in the coming years. Ennead was the design architect through DD and DLR Group is the AOR, structural designer, audiovisual and lighting designer, and laboratory planners for this project.
Design Achievements The firm held an open-end services contract with the Southern Arizona Veteran’s Administration. During that time, there were two major projects completed. Scope Summary An addition to the existing Building 38 contained exam rooms and pre-engineered audiology booths for hearing examinations. The addition was designed to upgrade all existing mechanical, plumbing and electrical systems. Remodeling the existing Building 50 allowed for the relocation of specialty clinics such as orthopaedics, urology, oncology and pulmonology.
Investigation of concerns they have about the condition of the existing museum envelope as they continue to develop the adjacent expansion project.
Design Achievements and Scope Summary From 1996 through 2002 the firm has served this client as Registered Plant Architect, and has provided the design services to remodel a wide variety of spaces including clinical areas, treatment spaces, patient rooms, support spaces, staff offices, public entries and waiting spaces. Projects are often produced in a compressed time frame. Some have been constructed in-house and some were bid and constructed by outside contractors.
Investigation of concerns they have about the condition of the existing museum envelope as they continue to develop the adjacent expansion project.
This project consists of two new buildings added to an the existing Echo Mountain Elementary School site. The first building, a single story primary school addition, will house the new administration offices, multi-purpose room and nine kindergarten classrooms. The second building, a single story intermediate school addition, will house new administration offices, four general classrooms, a music room, and a physical education room. Existing portables on the site will be removed at the end of construction of the new buildings. The portables will remain in use during the projects’ construction. Echo Mountain Elementary School is split into two schools, Primary and Intermediate. The new design reflects the desires of the administration to have two distinct schools with their own entries and administrations. The buildings are consistent with existing schools by employing similar systems and materials found through out the schools of Paradise Valley Unified School District. The materials of the new buildings resemble the existing campus using stucco accents and masonry units resembling the brick in color. The use of metal canopies matching existing buildings are also used to unify the buildings. Programmatic design of classroom spaces and the multipurpose space reflect other prototype designs within the school district. Sustainable design/energy efficiency features include the buildings being places in an optimal orientation on the site, using solatubes for day lighting the classrooms and sustainable materials on the interior of the building.
Design Achievement - The Paradise Valley Community College Center for the Performing Arts is a striking assemblage of forms, materials, and colors that intentionally evokes the silhouettes, textures, and palette of its desert/mountain context in the north Phoenix area. The composition of shapes is expressive of the performing and visual arts functions clustered within the building. On the interior, cost-effective metallic painted surfaces of silver, gold and bronze also pay homage to the indigenous coloration of the Sonoran Desert. Designed as the college’s new hub for art, music, and theater, the new 24,870 SF facility is a gateway and focal point for the campus. Built on a flat site, the design introduces landscaping and artistic features that are both an amenity for the campus and a dramatic backdrop for the building. Aesthetics, flexibility, and sophisticated technology are fully integrated to provide a superb performing and visual arts venue for the students and faculty of Paradise Valley Community College and the greater Maricopa County community. Scope Summary - The building, which serves public audiences as well as three teaching departments, incorporates a state-of-the-art 281-seat theater. The proscenium theater offers a full stage, theatrical rigging, stage lift, orchestra pit, and adjustable drapery above the catwalk for acoustic control. Designed for dispersion of sound, the orchestra chamber’s curving walls contribute to acoustic quality while adding visual and aesthetic interest to the space. Flexible for both music and voice performances, amplified and non-amplified sound, the theater has state-of-the-art electronics and permanently mounted speakers above the proscenium. The theater is supported by dressing and makeup rooms, a full scene shop, wardrobe, and a greenroom that doubles as a small black box performing space. All of these rooms are slightly oversized with sufficient space for faculty to instruct. The building includes a music room with recording capabilities and full capacity for video and sound production. DLR Group provided architecture, MEP engineering, interior design, and theater technical design services.
DLR Group has provided architectural and electrical, mechanical and structural engineering services for this Transportation Administration Building comprised of two separate areas. The Driver area is a controlled area which functions to serve the bus drivers, allowing them access to the Dispatch area, lockers, restrooms and break/training areas without disturbing the administrative staff. The Administrative staff has its own entrance, restrooms and break area, private offices and copy/work room. There is an implied connection to the bus maintenance building, not only with the use of color, but also through the fan-shaped outdoor break area and alignment with the column bases of the existing building.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Federal Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and DLR Group, have completed this new Border Protection Station, serving U.S. efforts to secure our border and the numerous corridors utilized by traffickers to reach the rest of the United States. The 20.25 acre site includes a main administration building (30,303 SF), vehicle sallyport (3,735 SF), vehicle maintenance building (10,063 SF), and a dog kennel building (3 kennels, 1,784 SF). Within the administration building are offices, detention rooms and a fitness center. Additionally, the new facility includes a heli-stop, covered parking, an employee ramada, four-lane fueling station and two vehicle wash bays. The facility provides improved security and working conditions for the staff as well as improved holding cells for detainees.
Design Achievement – Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University is the only accredited Aviation University in the world. DLR Group's design of the Christine and Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Library and Learning Center embodies this prestigious institution's dedication to technological and academic advancement. The design concept for the library is a metaphor for flight. Composed of metal and glass, the building seems to hover above the ground. The library's main entry is defined by an internally illuminated staircase that evokes the technological underpinnings of aeronautical education. The staircase lifts students from the classrooms on the first floor to the resource center and commons on the second floor. The second level cantilevers in two directions; and with expanses of glass the space encourages informal learning surrounded by views of the horizon. Scope Summary – Designed as a 32,000 SF, 2-story structure, upper floor access is gained from the top of the hill, while the main floor is entered from the foot of the slope, near the student commons. Proper solar orientation introduces controlled daylight into the library creating a wonderfully positive study environment. A north-facing window wall allows daylight into the interior and a glimpse into the life of the library for evening passers-by. The interior incorporates a glass entrance feature to define circulation in a dramatic way. The book stacks stand in formation over black, tarmac-like flooring with lighting reminiscent of a runway. Playful furnishings keep this facility from becoming too heavy-handed in technology or aviation, welcoming students and visitors to sit and study, contemplate and collaborate while they explore information at their fingertips. DLR Group provided architecture design services for the library.
Design Achievements The Surgery Expansion and Remodel project provides three new state of the art operating rooms and support space in an existing interior courtyard. Scope Summary The second floor addition provides staff and physicians with new locker and toilet facilities, and new lounges. Administrative offices and conference rooms make up the balance of the second floor built over the operating rooms below and adjacent medical records department. This expand’s Tucson’s largest private hospital’s operating room capacity to seventeen.
Since the Arizona Diamondbacks' air-conditioned ballpark first opened its doors on March 31, 1998, Chase Field has become one of Major League Baseball's most recognizable landmarks. But with more than 15 million fans experiencing the stadium, it was time to renovate 19 Skybox Suites and the Owner Suite to exceed suite standards in stadiums across the U.S.   DLR Group, along with McCarthy Nordberg Interior Design, developed three alternate decor schemes to allow potential lessees some choice prior to leasing a suite. We replaced existing FF&E, including refrigerators, ice makers, TVs, and furnishings. Services also included replacement of existing cabinets and counter surfaces, wall coverings, and restroom fixtures. We also added new shelving, updated floor coverings, ceiling treatment, light fixtures and wall art. Upgrades to technology offers guests access to the Internet, WIFI connections, e-mail, TV, and phone lines to food service providers.   This project creates a top-quality product that markets well while setting new standards for luxury sporting suites.
Design Achievements This work began with a master planned, phased reorganization, expansion and reconstruction of Tucson Medical Center’s campus west side. Scope Summary It included the planned phasing of new vehicular/pedestrian paths, parking lots and two new parking structures; a new outpatient services facility; restorative serves remodel and expansion; new north east inpatient entrance; renovated and expanded emergency/urgent care facilities; new physicians-on-call building; plus planned site locations for two new medical office buildings. The planning of this work began in 1989 and was completed in 1997 with the opening of a new outpatient pharmacy. Design and construction on each project was planned to allow for a phased path of improvement, making room for each subsequent use, culminating in the Emergency Department expansion and remodel.
University Heart Center Programming, planning and design for remodeling existing space at the University Medical Center to accommodate the needs of heart transplant patients. This $1.5 million project included transplant team offices, exam rooms, an EP lab, testing and exercise areas, as well as public waiting spaces Imaging Center* New facility to house MIR, CT Scan and Ultrasound services. Pediatrics Wing* Master plan for 7500 SF pediatrics area. Transplant Center Renovation of 7000 SF of existing floor space for use by transplant programs. Includes exam rooms, procedure rooms, pheresis and infusion area and offices for support personnel. Completed through design phase. Wellness Center 7000 SF fitness and exercise facility for medical center employees. Includes aerobics room, stationary equipment, free-weight area, and locker/shower rooms. Various Renovation and Expansion Projects* Numerous renovation and expansion projects including Perinatal Department Remodel, Neonatal and Pediatric ICU Remodel, Nursing Stations remodel on six floors, Coronary ICU, Pathology Lab Remodel and Expansion, Ambulatory Surgery Reception Addition, Psychiatric Unit Remodel North Parking Garage and Pedestrian Bridges* New 1000-space parking structure and pedestrian connections to main hospital building East Parking Garage* New 740-car parking structure enhancing the main entrance to the main entrance to the campus. * Completed while Gresham & Beach was a regional office of NBBJ.
Design Achievements The firm provided programming, planning and design services to remodel existing space at the University Medical Center to accommodate the needs of heart transplant patients. Scope Summary This $1.5 million project included transplant team offices, exam rooms, an EP lab, testing and exercise areas, and public waiting and educational spaces.
This project was developed on the western portion of the 320-acre site in Eloy, Arizona, adjacent to the Red Rock Correctional Center. The property is owned by Corrections Corporation of America. The project was all new construction and consists of 1,896 beds using a 360-bed prototype celled housing unit and a special design 108-bed segregation / 156-bed S.H.I.P. housing unit and 300-bed Female General Population with a 30-cell Segregation component. This project includes all related support and program spaces, and overall utility infrastructure to support only 1,896 beds, utilizing on-site water well and treatment and on-site Waste Water Treatment Plant.
Design Achievements Responding to a rapidly growing community, this Prescott hospital undertook the reconstruction and expansion of its Emergency Department. The project includes over 11,000 SF of additions and 5,500 SF of remodeled and renovated space. Scope Summary The new facility provides 18 treatment rooms including 4 cardiac rooms with six new Fast Track beds in a separate treatment area. The project also includes reconstruction of the hospital’s main entrance, as well as a complete reconstruction and re-equipping of its west side central plant. This project was designed to be constructed in four phases, allowing for a sequential occupation of each completed area. The builder was brought in at the onset of the design and played a pivotal role, providing costing, value engineering and constructability reviews during the course of the design.
Design Achievements The firm worked with McKahan Planning Group to master plan, program and design a new full-service hospital facility in this growing community in North Central Arizona. Yavapai Regional Medical Center intended to expand from its existing campus to Prescott Valley in a new, state of the art, 50-bed health care facility. Scope Summary The firm led a study to determine the most appropriate method for expanding the existing hospital capacity and to determine quality of beds needed for future growth expectation. The study included alternative development schemes and cost estimates associated with each alternative. For their new East Campus, YRMC implemented the Planetree model of a "total healing environment" to support the excellent level of care in their existing facility. The master plan phase included several site visits to hospitals that have embraced this concept, as well as workshops with Prescott Valley residents, staff and council members to build support for the new facility.
The New District Office (DO) and Maintenance / Transportation (M/T) Facility is master planned to include a future warehouse building, and additions to the DO and the bus bays of the M/T Facility. The District office is a 14,600 SF stand-alone building that includes: Superintendent and administrative offices, lobby reception area, conference rooms, high density records storage rooms, open office area with landscape partition system workstations, copy / workrooms, and a 300 seat Board Room for school district's Governing Board meetings. The Maintenance / Transportation Facility is a 13,200 SF stand alone, pre-engineered metal building that contains 2 fully-equipped drive-through bus bays with mechanical lifts, a separate drive-through service bay for District vehicles, an exterior wash bay, Fluids and Battery Storage rooms, a tool / parts storage and diagnostic area, locker / shower rooms, Director’s, Dispatch & Transportation offices, Training / Break Room, Conference Room, Plans Storage room, and 5 building Maintenance Trades areas with secured equipment storage and adjacent open office area. The bus yard area will accommodate parking for 56 buses with growth potential to 80 buses. Bus fueling will be serviced by a 10,000 gallon diesel and 4,000 gallon unleaded gas fueling station that will be supplied by the District at a later date.
This 72,000 SF elementary school was planned for 770 K-6 students. It is a site adapt of the DLR Group-designed Wildfire Elementary, as a replacement for the previous school facility. Given the rise in construction costs, the design challenge was to maintain a functional elementary school, including features such as wireless technology, while staying within the tight budget. The project was completed through the use of phased construction, including the demolition of existing buildings and creation of new fields.
At the request of the City of Tempe, DLR Group was contracted to provide an assessment of the general condition of the City Hall Building, its associated structures and property located at 31 East Fifth Street, Tempe, Arizona. This building is an award-winning facility completed in 1970 to serve as municipal offices for the City of Tempe which opened in 1971. The unique inverted pyramid shape was designed to conserve energy by allowing less light into the building. Our project team recommended minor renovation and maintenance for the facility, as well as significant improvements particularly to the mechanical and electrical systems. An upgrade to the overall aesthetics would also return the campus to its award-winning stature deserving of a municipal building.
Design Narrative - Cochise College seeks to create environments that encourage students to be active members of the learning community and create personally meaningful learning experiences. DLR Group’s design for the science building updates and expands the existing science facility by creating a seamless addition that connects to the existing structure via a student commons plaza. In addition to the new, daylight infused classrooms, the new space includes centrally located support areas that are readily accessible from all the labs and adds a 48-seat lecture hall. Scope Narrative - A 17,800 SF expansion which includes physics, chemistry and biology labs, a computer lab, lecture hall, prep, storage, resource and office support spaces.
Arizona School for the Deaf and Blind is a year yound school campus with blind, deaf, multidisability students living on campus. This single story Student health center and vocational building addition with classrooms, an exercise room, health center and offices. New Construction on existing year round school campus with blind, deaf, multi-disability students living on campus. The school schedule was not affected by construction - the area was contained to protect special needs students.
This 87,000 SF new middle school includes classrooms, a gymnasium, administration, library and media center facilities. The project was designed to support an easy transition of learning from adolescence to adulthood through the academic environment, socialization areas, performing arts and athletic areas. The project involved extensive collaboration with the District and local community, and the design includes shared community use areas. Sustainable features include building placement to optimize natural daylighting, energy consumption, and long term operational costs. Consistency and responsiveness to the District and community and a regular on-site presence allowed our team to complete this project on budget and schedule, while still delivering creative design elements.
Design Achievements The major challenge of this project was to keep the existing hospital operations functional, while allowing for construction to proceed in adjacent areas. The design team worked closely with hospital staff and the CM/GC to organize and phase the work to minimize disruptions to patient care and safety. Scope Summary Renovations and additions to the Yavapai Regional Medical Center’s West Campus include a new LDR, new Medical ICU (8 beds), a second cardiac catheterization lab and prep space, new Rad/Fluor room, new CT scan, two new ultrasound suits, renovation of mammography suite, new surgical suite including two ortho, two cardiac and two general ORs, new surgical prep/recovery space, new endoscopy suite and related support, storage and public space. In addition, the work involved the relocation of the hospital’s Wellness and Rehab facilities to an existing freestanding facility on the campus.
Design Achievement - Our innovative engineering team corrected existing central plant conditions with chiller replacements and other measures to eliminate wasted energy costs. By replacing the existing chillers with new VFD centrifugal chillers and revising the plant sequence of operations, our team increases energy performance. Through diligent field investigations the designers provide a simple solution to convert the existing constant speed primary pumps to a variable speed primary pumping system. Our team performed an evaluation of the plant power factor and total harmonic distortion study to determine the effect of adding a large electronic load to the existing power distribution. The existing condition may have caused a system failure. The design team disconnects the Power Factor Correction Capacitors as the new electrical loads with the existing power factor no longer required correction. The design strategy was completed in construction without any chilled water interruptions to the hospital. These actions result in maximizing energy savings and reduces initial costs for the Phoenix Indian Medical Center. Scope Summary - Two existing 350-ton centrifugal carrier chillers were replaced by two 400-ton VFD centrifugal chiller in the Central Utility Plant of the Phoenix Indian Medical Center. The project includes replacement and upgrades of all piping, electrical and controls work. The existing de-coupler line was utilized with slight modifications and a new modulation bypass valve was installed to maintain the minimum required chilled water flow rates for the chillers. The sequence also incorporates the existing plate and frame heat exchanger utilizing an auto change over sequence based on ambient conditions. A thorough field investigation discovered that the existing primary/secondary pumping arrangement was not properly piped. The variable speed secondary pumps were in series with the constant speed primary pumps. Our team provided a simple, cost effective solution.
Design Achievement-The VA in Tucson, Arizona, wanted to maximize patient safety through the provision of an appropriately sized Sterile Processing and Distribution (SPD) for Building 57 The new SPD will provide adequate SPD throughput to support an increasing surgical caseload. A secondary driver is to assure that the Dental practice has adequate capacity to meet a slowly growing workload. Project Scope-The scope of work for this project included 19,914 SF total with 8,322 GSF of new Construction and 11,592 SF of renovation. This included dental OR's, surgeries, and hygienist treatment areas and a new SPD. Dental x-ray equipment was provided in all OR's and the oral surgery area and one panoramic x-ray. The existing SPD was 3,358 SF under the recommended area needed to manage the projected workload, caused by a previous Surgery Suite expansion that was designed by DLR Group increased the number of operating rooms to expand the surgical caseload capacity but the undersized SPD limited OR capacity. Previous to the expansions, the instruments were sterilized nightly because of the storage space limitations for additional instrument sets. Growth in cases would soon exceed wash and sterilization capacity. In addition, the existing SPD air handling system did not meet VA requirements. The Dental Clinic was also undersized according to recommendations. By constructing an addition to Building 57, the expansion provided space by relocating the Dental Clinic on the first floor under the Surgery Expansion on the second floor. The SPD was expanded by moving the sterile and nonsterile storage into the space formerly occupied by the Dental Clinic and Laboratory. Relocating the storage and distribution functions for non-OR support allowed for the expansion of decontamination and sterilization capacities for OR support in the current space. DLR Group provided medical programming/planning, architectural and interior design, mechanical/plumbing, electrical, and structural engineering, and low voltage and special systems design.
The Phoenix Day School for the Deaf and Blind supports middle and high school students who are blind, deaf and hard of hearing. The design focus was to ensure the needs of the special needs students were addressed in all aspects of planning, design, and the newly finished building. The Phoenix Day School project involved the design and phased construction of a new building on an active campus. This project required extensive stakeholder involvement in the planning and design process. Working with School staff and students, our designers achieved a unique understanding of the special needs of the school users. The completed school facilities include administrative offices, middle school classrooms, high school classrooms a science lab, computer labs, multipurpose rooms, a library/media center, and a student health center. The school was designed for flexibility and adaptability to changes in curriculum and other needs. Creative use of color, light, textures and patterns were used as cues for wayfinding, while social interaction and community interaction among students and teachers is fostered through a “commons” area that engages activity and movement throughout the rest of the facility.
The Lee Williams High School project for Kingman USD represents the second high school for the District, but is not a new facility. Due to the location, age and history of the campus, LWHS needed to capture the legacy of the people and community of Kingman, Arizona, with a focus on community gathering space while creating an environment where students take pride in their education. Originally, this facility began as a high school but later was converted to the White Cliffs Middle School. With the passage of their recent bond, the District was able to develop a new White Cliffs Middle School (also designed by DLR Group), and return this facility back into the needed High School.    The Design team worked with the District to save a majority of the existing structures for conversion to the High School, with the only completely newly constructed facility being an auxilliary gymnasium and an addition to the cafeteria. The campus includes administrative offices, classroom spaces, auditorium/gymnasium facilities, an auxilliary gym, cafeteria, and shop/arts area. The school will provide a variety of course studies and learning experiences, thus giving students in the district choices of field of education and career development.
Design Achievement - Cochise County initiatied creation of a new master plan for the Sierra Vista Campus of Cochise College. DLR Group's design and planning included extensive coordination with college staff, faculty, and user stakeholder groups to create a flexible new plan allowing the College to grow and compete today and in the future. As part of that successful master plan, we also provided design and construction administration services for several new construction projects, as well as renovations and additions for the campus. All of the projects were designed and implemented as part of multiple phased construction projects while the campus and buildings remained occupied, with minimal disruption to faculty and students. Scope Summary - The scope of work included creating a comprehensive campus master plan followed by design for new construction and multiple additions, renovations and remodels of existing campus facilities. Construction projects included the Student Union (32,000 SF, new construction); Learning Commons/Academic Building (25,000 SF, new construction); Science Building Addition and Renovation (17,800 SF, addition and renovation); Career Technology Center (15,000 SF, new construction); Nursing Building Renovation (8,000 SF, renovation); Administration Building Renovation, (5,600 SF); and Student Services Building Renovation (6,200 SF). DLR Group provided planning, architecture, engineering, and interiors services.
This new central kitchen and warehouse facility (Central Kitchen: 17,000SF Central Warehouse: 4,000SF) has resulted in huge reductions in costs for the District and added efficiency, as well as providing a more pleasant atmosphere with ample day lighting and lots of room to work. Kingman's new kitchen and storage facility allows the District to store all food in a centralized location and allows for bulk buying to reduce costs for the District. This has also allowed staff to be far more efficient, reducing the need for overtime for the District, which had been a regular occurrence prior to the new facility being built. The facility includes a main office and conference room for all staff training and administration, prep area, dry storage with walk-in freezer, cooler and staging cooler, and kitchen laundry. The District's central warehouse and printing facility is also housed there. The kitchen facility currently produces 100% of the District's Elementary School food, 75% of the middle school food, and all cold food for the high school - hot food is prepared at the high school due to the wider variety of choices provided to the students.
The College wanted to update and expand their existing science facilities, while creating a seamless addition to their existing science classroom facilities. The end product did just that, creating updated and expanded classroom and lab facilities while blending with the existing fabric of the original building and the campus. The 17,800 SF expansion includes physics/astronomy, organic chemistry, anatomy/physiology, biology and microbiology labs, a computer lab, lecture hall, prep, storage, resource and office support spaces. DLR Group provided architecture and engineering services on the project.
Design Achievement - Kingman Unified School District aspired to deliver White Cliffs Middle School to meet the changing needs of middle school students, complete with technology and collaborative learning areas. DLR Group's design features a contemporary flare and draws upon the community's roots as a stop along Route 66. Classroom wings are flexible to accommodate a variety of educational delivery methods. All classrooms benefit from natural daylight. The building is zoned to separate the active and sometimes noisy education spaces (physical education, performing arts, dining) from the quieter academic spaces of classrooms and media center. The media center exterior geometry and materials take cues from classic automobile design using slick curved surfaces, two-tone paint schemes and shiny metal accents. Circular walls defy traditional convention by eliminating corners to communicate the idea of thinking outside the box. Scope Summary - The 87,000 SF school supports an easy transition of learning from adolescence to adulthood for 1,000 students in grades 6-8. The design expresses three important considerations for middle school students: academics, socialization and community connections. Abundant windows give students incredible views to the mountainous horizon and surrounding landscape. A courtyard provides outdoor learning opportunities, and gives students a safe place to socialize and dine. DLR Group provided architecture, engineering, interiors, and landscape architecture services.
Design Achievement - The influx of veterans from Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF/IEF) required expansion of the women’s clinic to better serve the growth of women’s health and wellness. As part of the women’s health program, separate entrances for women and men were designed in shared imaging and waiting areas to provide privacy, dignity and respect for our veterans. The first floor of Building 81 houses an MRI facility. The neighboring Outpatient Clinic adjacent had an insufficient amount of space to accommodate these two highly visible programs for anticipated exponential growth within the VA. Building 81 was designed to expand vertically and horizontally to the south for Imaging services to free up space in the outpatient clinic. The expansion over an operating MRI required re-location of operations during construction due to the vertical expansion and the use of non-ferrous materials within the gauss field. Scope Summary- The first-floor expansion and second floor addition of Building 81, located on the east side of the Southern Arizona VA Health Care System complex, provides a new location for both Women’s Health Clinic and OEF/OIF programs. Ancillary services to the Women’s Health Center include mammography, ultrasound, bone densitometry, dressing, and waiting areas on the first floor. The women’s health center and OEF/OIF services are on the second floor and include ten exam rooms, one bariatric exam room, two procedure rooms, waiting that including a children’s play area, reception and triage. The existing building structure was designed to accommodate an additional ± 23,000 SF first floor area as well as a future second floor, to cover the first floor footprint. This project added approximately 3,175 SF to the first-floor footprint and approximately 13,200 SF over the existing first floor with 4,140 SF for the penthouse area. Alternates were designed to de-scope the project in the event of the construction cost being over budget. DLR Group provided architecture, interior design, structural, mechanical, plumbing, electrical, and low-voltage engineering.
Higley High School campus was designed on 50 acres as eight separate buildings to complement the District’s curriculum. Each classroom is equipped with technology to accommodate voice, video and data. Special systems include intercom, data link, satellite and energy management. The design for the Higley High School reflects the architectural imagery of the disappearing agrarian way of life in Higley, Arizona. The forms and materials are essentially utilitarian, yet have a dynamic presence inspired by the agricultural structures that have dominated the area for years.   The buildings are organized around an axial courtyard that terminates at a large canopy over the outdoor dining area. Roll-up doors open the cafeteria/commons to the outdoor dining patio and courtyard. This multi-purpose room serves as cafeteria, auditorium and gathering space for gym events. In addition, multiple athletic fields were designed for the site, including a football field, practice field, baseball and softball fields. The multi-purpose building contains the combined cafeteria and commons with a stage, full-service kitchen, two gymnasiums, locker rooms, music rooms and general classrooms. The gymnasiums and music spaces receive natural, diffused light through translucent wall panels. Most general classrooms have recessed windows that provide natural lighting. The central focus of the site plan is the student courtyard. The turf and trees create an inviting oasis for student gatherings. The simple site plan organizes the campus into distinct and separate circulation zones for visitor and staff, buses, delivery and student parking.   The new Higley High School is the first high school designed and funded solely by Students FIRST.
The 25,000 SF Learning Commons/Academic Building consists of classrooms, faculty offices, and learning support and computer commons areas. The Learning Commons is the premier space in the building, providing for 100 computers in both fixed and roaming positions. Tutoring areas also are featured, along with a variety of support spaces to round out the Learning Commons' program, including a help desk, group study rooms and faculty accommodation.   To facilitate flexibility, the learning commons space is clear-spanned with high ceilings and a floor free of built-in millwork. Roughly fifty percent of the perimeter walls of the Commons sport floor-to-ceiling glass through which controlled views of the courtyard, lawn and the dramatic Huachuca Mountains are found. Equally important to the College is the view from the entrance drive to the Learning Commons. The Commons' role as a welcoming, iconic structure is a significant part of its mission.
To create this new high-performance high school campus, this design emphasizes the development of several smaller schools within a larger school framework. One such facility was actually this childcare center for children of the students and staff who attend Betty Fairfax. The facility promotes a sense of community support, while adapting easily to changing needs for the space and children who are cared for there. The child care center is secured from the rest of the high school campus, and features it’s own outdoor play area for the small children.
Design Achievement – A core value of Phoenix College is its commitment to "Go Far, Close To Home," by offering a premiere education opportunity for Valley residents. The Fine Arts Building creates a landmark facility at the northern terminus of the campus, celebrating and reinforcing education in art curriculum. The structure creates an energy within the department and the community at large that will naturally open new doors to growth for students. The Fine Arts Program incorporates three art departments: photography, graphic arts, and media arts. These programmatic parts have been arranged to ensure interaction and interdependence between the programs and the surrounding community. Scope Summary – This 28,000 SF, 2-story facility surrounds a landscaped courtyard, with a highly visible public facade for exhibits held within the gallery. The facility includes ceramics, glass, and sculpture classrooms on the ground floor. Drawing, painting, computer graphics, and photography classrooms are located on the second floor. A multi-functional 75-seat lecture hall with digital media capabilities also provides opportunity for community and college interaction. An exhibition gallery is also included in the facility with a rooftop terrace above the gallery providing open-air space for post-exhibit celebrations. DLR Group provided architecture and engineering services for this project.
Master planning and design of the entire exterior at the complex. Designed all outdoor spaces and playgrounds.
Design Narrative: DLR Group worked with Cochise College to create a new student union designed to be an easily-accessed structure. Located in the central courtyard at the heart of the College's Sierra Vista Campus, the space was designed with all sorts of inviting spaces and easy-to-use qualities that accommodate and anticipate students’ needs. To compact the plan and bring the service points as close together as possible for convenience's sake, a two-story configuration was selected. Scope Summary: This new 32,000-square foot student union was conceived with the student experience was uppermost in mind, with the necessary progression from department to department made, if not intuitive, at least logical and uncomplicated. This complex space program houses: one-stop shop featuring registration, financial aid and cashier; student government and activities; ADA testing and assistance; office space for staff; career assistance; counseling and advising; testing; a Barnes & Noble bookstore; kitchen and student dining room; and a 400-seat community room.
Program and design an expansion of an existing charter school campus, renovation of 36,500 SF.
Cochise College needed a flexible space in which to house their technical vocations, with an open design and room to move and grow. The 15,000 SF Career Technology Center provides a facility for vocational studies, as well as high tech collaborative and distance learning. The facility features flexible new classroom spaces, faculty offices, welding labs, machining facilities, resource, storage and office support spaces.
Facing challenges with their Nursing program accreditation due to space constrictions, Cochise College asked DLR Group to quickly develop a complete space program and design a series of labs, classrooms, offices and student areas to meet their needs. The rapid turnaround on this project allowed the College to retain accreditation, meet their future enrollment goals and utilize construction crews already working on other projects on-site.   The 8,000 SF project features new classrooms, faculty offices, labs, lecture halls, resource, storage and office support spaces. The facility was designed with consideration to sustainability and energy efficiency, featuring natural lighting, orientation to minimize heat and glare, and natural materials such as concrete block, glass, and corrugated and perforated steel wall panels.
This new Multi-purpose and Wellness Center includes a full gymnasium, performance and assembly area, plus arts and crafts, computer training, and smaller instructional rooms. There is a full service kitchen, an aerobics and weight room, a youth recreation space and full locker and shower facilities. The building also includes office space for the District One Service Center with a nursing and exam area for health care staff visits. An outdoor swimming pool complex and exercise trail are also part of the overall complex. The Facility also includes a back-up generator and can function as an emergency shelter.
In danger of losing their Nursing program accreditation due to space constrictions, Cochise College asked DLR Group to quickly develop a complete space program and design a series of labs, classrooms, offices and student areas to meet their needs. The program and design sketches were used to provide a basis for construction budgeting by the CM at Risk, Sundt Construction. The project was designed and implemented as part of a multi-phased series of projects. The rapid turnaround by DLR Group allowed the College to retain accreditation, meet their future enrollment goals and utilize Sundt crews already working on other projects on-site.

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