Newhall Ranch Sheriff's Station, Santa Clarita, California
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 | Newhall Ranch Sheriff's Station |
| Designer | West Edge Architects, Peter M. Mitsakos & Associates, Marina del Rey, California, USA |
| Location | Santa Clarita, California, USA |
| Date | to 2007 |
| Building Type | Public Safety |
| Climate | Moderate - mild winters, warm-hot summers |
| Context | Foothills |
| Architectural Style | Contemporary |
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| Notes | Sheriff's station designed in conjuction with Newhall Ranch housing project, a 12,000 acre, 25,000 home development north of Los Angeles. |
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Site Plan |
 Main Entrance |
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| Building Details | |
| Client | Newhall Land / Newhall Ranch |
| Cost | $18 million (estimated) |
| Area | 32,000 Square Feet |
| Stories | one |
A series of covered breezeways and open courtyards connect blocks of discrete programmatic elements, shade the east and west flanks of all occupied spaces, and provide filtered daylight and natural ventilation through clerestory windows that open to the breezeway spaces. The main entrance lobby, public counters and primary building circulation are housed in the central east/ west oriented space which is enclosed by shaded glass walls. The V-shaped roofs that cover this space and the breezeways deflect sunlight and channel rainwater for collection and use as irrigation.
The mass of the exterior CMU walls, which surround all the program spaces, leverages the significant diurnal temperature swing of the project location through their inherent thermal lag, to moderate the effects of the outside air temperature on the conditioned spaces of the building. The flat roofs of the program areas are planted with native grasses to further shelter the building from direct solar heat gain.
The building’s main entrance faces the planned commercial center across an access drive (created by the planning and placement of the buildings). This drive provides access to both the commercial development and the sheriff's station and creates a sense of civic engagement for both projects. Community spaces within the station are housed in the portion of the building closest to the drive and are accessible from both the exterior entrance plaza and the station’s internal circulation.
