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City of Hope Northeast Parking Structure
TRC Parkitects is part of the design-build team selected to complete the new Northeast Parking Structure (NEPS) located on the City of Hope main campus in Duarte, California. The parking structure will provide 1,000 new parking spaces for patients, visitors, and staff and will serve the future Duarte Outpatient Clinic (DOC), adjacent Graff Park, as well as other campus medical and common event venues. Valet parking and retail spaces are provided as well. The stunning parking structure's architectural façade was designed to mitigate the appearance of an open parking structure and to echo what the City of Hope stands for through its aesthetic design.
The parking structure is three bays wide, with 6 levels of parking with a perimeter canopy on the top level. There is also retail space provided at the south end adjacent to the new DOC facility. The large mass of the structure provides the opportunity to express the healing design philosophy of CoH in unique ways on each building face as outlined below.
The complexities of the site influenced the design of the structure. Working with PCF master-plan architects for the Irvine Company, the structure was placed on the horizontal diagonal through the site being center on the office tower. The evolving design was perfectly symmetrical about this axis and afforded two identical primary entrances to the parking structure from the adjoining streets.
West Façade:
The West elevation facing the campus interior is clad with a unique and expressionistic façade comprised of a kinetic panel system that showcases a myriad of wind-driven, slow-moving thin rectangular metal elements in various colors that beautifully represent the “wishing tags” used on campus for patients and visitors to express their wishes to overcome cancer. These tags are inscribed and hung on the lower branches of existing campus trees. A unique architectural staircase on this façade provides an opportunity for patrons to experience the façade and exit into the new Graff Park adjacent to this side of the structure and pathways to the campus.
East Façade:
The East façade faces the 605 Freeway which is visible to the public from a distance. Drivers can easily spot the dark bronze and champagne-colored structure, with the City of Hope logo in view. The structure is behind a series of vertically oriented and painted perforated structural metal deck panels, allowing the parking structure to be seen behind it. The lowest level sits behind a gabion wall along this façade.
South Façade:
The South façade, painted in dark brown, faces the Amini Transfusion Medical Center. The stair from the West wraps around to the North façade. This façade also continues the kinetic façade from the west, above the ground-level retail space.
North Façade:
The North façade faces across Duarte Road, welcoming employees and visitors with clear and direct access. The adjacent 100-parking space surface parking lot accommodates parking for those visiting the gardens, gathering spaces East of Hope Drive, or valet parking. The kinetic façade also wraps this elevation and a gabion wall along the ground level. The primary parking structure entrance is highlighted by a large City of Hope logo sign panel above.
In addition to the special façade design of the parking structure, a roof-level cantilevered canopy provides shade on the top-level parking level and aesthetically, helps mitigate the perceived structure height by strengthening the horizontal plane.
Construction of the CoH NEPS parking structure was completed in January 2022.
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