Project Details
- Project Name
- Hollenbeck Police Station
- Location
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CA ,United States
- Client/Owner
- City of Los Angeles
- Project Types
- Industrial
- Size
- 179,000 sq. feet
- Shared by
- Hanley Wood
- Consultants
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Construction Manager: FTR International,General Contractor: FTR International,Structural Engineer: AC Martin,Civil Engineer: AC Martin,Electrical Engineer: TMAD,null: TMAD,Plumbing Engineer: TMAD,Landscape Architect: Melendrez Design Partner,Jay Farbstein & Associates,EASI,Curtain Wall Design & Consulting,Delta Structure,CSI,Miralles Associates,Iskander Associates,Selbert Perkins Design
- Certifications & Designations
- LEED Gold
- Project Status
- Built
- Cost
- $31,100,000
Project Description
The Hollenbeck Police Station routinely responds to gang violence and drug problems in the neighborhood, and the brutal design of the old building matched the area’s toughness with a hard, unwelcoming exterior. With the replacement station, AC Martin sought to change that.
Instead of unyielding brick walls, the design team made liberal use of glass. The entrance is located in an undulated glass façade featuring roughly 70 bent frosted-glass panels. Each panel consists of two pieces of bent clear glass laminated together with a translucent interlayer, creating a semi-opacity that obscures what’s going on inside, but still allows light to filter through. The pieces attach to a curtain wall system with a custom aluminum bracket designed in-house at AC Martin, and then further engineered by Dallas-based Curtain Wall Design & Consulting. While the glass panels on the façade are not bulletproof, the glass behind them is. The effect is a sculptural, staccato display that serves Martin’s idea of literal and figurative transparency, an important tool in building trust with the community. Fully operational since July, the station is on its way to earning LEED Gold certification
Read the full article: http://www.architectmagazine.com/institutional-projects/hollenbeck-police-station.aspx
