Matt Ackerman
10 | San Luis National Wildlife Refuge Administrative Headquarters & Visitor Center
The San Luis National Wildlife Refuge is located approximately 100 miles southeast of San Jose, CA, and will serve as the Administrative Headquarters and Visitor Center for the San Luis National Wildlife Refuge Complex. Designed by my company– CATALYST ARCHITECTURE of Prescott Arizona, this state-of-the-art facility features a 55Kw roof-mounted photovoltaic array, SIPs (structural insulated panels), a wheathered steel skin, timberframed lobby, and operable clerestory windows for natural daylight and ventiliation.
To help 'tell the story' of the San Luis Refuge, our multi-disciplinary design team sought to integrate several key concept themes (design references) unique to the San Luis Refuge into the new facility's architectural design and site development. These include: the wood framed and and metal-clad agrarian structures of the California Central Valley- expressed in the building's Main Lobby and its weathered steel skin; the shapes of birds in flight- symbolized by the upward reaching roof-lines of the Administration Wing's seven 'roof monitors'; and by the broadly curving shapes of the facility's site development- referencing the 'oxbows' (those arch-shaped water remnants, evidence of the San Joaquin Rivers historically changing course over time).
Our design and engineering team is currently preparing documentation for an anticipated LEED-Platinum certification through the USGBC. When certified, the building will be the highest performing facility within the USFWS operations. The 17,000 sq.ft. Administrative HQ & Wildlife Interpretive Center is expected to be a Less-Than-Zero structure– meaning the facility has been designed to contribute more energy than it consumes.
Contact me for more information at: (928) 778-3508
10 | San Luis National Wildlife Refuge Administrative Headquarters & Visitor Center
The San Luis National Wildlife Refuge is located approximately 100 miles southeast of San Jose, CA, and will serve as the Administrative Headquarters and Visitor Center for the San Luis National Wildlife Refuge Complex. Designed by my company– CATALYST ARCHITECTURE of Prescott Arizona, this state-of-the-art facility features a 55Kw roof-mounted photovoltaic array, SIPs (structural insulated panels), a wheathered steel skin, timberframed lobby, and operable clerestory windows for natural daylight and ventiliation.
To help 'tell the story' of the San Luis Refuge, our multi-disciplinary design team sought to integrate several key concept themes (design references) unique to the San Luis Refuge into the new facility's architectural design and site development. These include: the wood framed and and metal-clad agrarian structures of the California Central Valley- expressed in the building's Main Lobby and its weathered steel skin; the shapes of birds in flight- symbolized by the upward reaching roof-lines of the Administration Wing's seven 'roof monitors'; and by the broadly curving shapes of the facility's site development- referencing the 'oxbows' (those arch-shaped water remnants, evidence of the San Joaquin Rivers historically changing course over time).
Our design and engineering team is currently preparing documentation for an anticipated LEED-Platinum certification through the USGBC. When certified, the building will be the highest performing facility within the USFWS operations. The 17,000 sq.ft. Administrative HQ & Wildlife Interpretive Center is expected to be a Less-Than-Zero structure– meaning the facility has been designed to contribute more energy than it consumes.
Contact me for more information at: (928) 778-3508