Los Angeles

Huitt-Zollars was the prime architecture consultant for the new student services building at Santa Monica College. The three-story building, with three subterranean levels of parking, consolidated the various Student Services departments into one building located on SMC’s main Pico campus. The goal was to provide centralized access and a one-stop service delivery location to more effectively serve the approximately 35,000 students per year in attendance.

The scope of this project included the remodel of the control room (shared by an adjacent CT Scanner room), the CT Scanner Suite, a patient restroom, and a patient changing room. The design team had to insure all areas remained accessible and operational during the project. This required a phased approach. Design features such as a Sky Factory virtual skylight located in the ceiling of the procedure room, new finishes such as wood plank resilient flooring, and accent paint were all added help promote a calm and healing environment.

Our team worked with stakeholders in each of these three departments to develop a move management strategy in order to complete the necessary remodels and allow each of the three departments to remain open during the remodel process. The diagrams below outline our approach to, first of all, identifying an underutilized portion of the existing medical office building to serve as swing space where each of the three departments would be relocated to while their home location underwent the necessary remodel effort. We identified underutilized space within the medical office building which could

Kaiser Permanente purchased an existing two-story concrete tilt-up industrial-type facility to expand its rapidly growing membership in Orange County. Morris, a Huitt-Zollars company, provided architectural and engineering services for the first phase tenant improvements which encompassed 71,000 SF for 42 medical providers and staff. Design challenges addressed multiple building deficiencies. A point-cloud model (3-D scan of existing conditions) was created and compared to the BIM model in order to distinguish discrepancies.

Design services were provided for the renovation of a 10,841-SF portion of the Campus Library and a new 14,060-SF addition for the Media Center, Information Technology, and supporting services. Design considerations incorporated function and adjacencies, departmental identities, entries and circulation, operating hours, data center expansion, daylight and views, campus identity, open space, sustainability, phasing, and schedule effects.

Set in gently rolling hills of the North San Diego coastal community Cardiff-by-the-Sea, Belmont Village offers its senior residents options for assisted and independent living as well as a dementia wing for increased care. The facility was designed to conform to the hillside and reflect the surrounding natural environment. There are 147 units and such desired amenities as landscaped courtyards and gardens, a pool, spa, sports lounge, beauty salon, and library.