LOCATION

Buena Park, California

DATE

Current

TYPE

Community Center

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The existing 30,000sf facility is composed of a campus of Community Buildings, Senior Citizens’ Center, and Banquet Facilities that is currently a major community gathering place.  Built in the 1960s, the facility had a great deal of deterioration including dry rot along with deferred maintenance and was in need of updating. It also had issues of security and homeless accessing private courtyard areas of the facility. Many of the Mid-century modern exposed wood details needed to be repaired and protected.   

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GPa was selected to provide a strategic design to enhance security while also giving the facility a restoration and architectural update. Details were developed to repair and prevent future dry rot and deterioration.  We provided design schemes and renderings as a part of an interactive process to design the Center with the City and the Community's input and collaboration while staying on a restrictive budget.