SRJC PETALUMA CAMPUS PHASE I & II
Petaluma, CA | Complete
Herold Mahoney Library Makes the
Cover of American Libraries
Full Article on page 38 - Online Issue
The completion of Phase II of the Petaluma Campus of Santa Rosa Junior College fulfills a 20-year dream to transform a cluster of relocatable buildings at the fairgrounds into a full service community college campus. Phase I completed in 1995 provided the first permanent facilities on the forty-acre campus. Phase II builds-out the campus to provide a full range of collegiate services.
The design links in a series of quadrangles to form an academic village that cascades down the gently rolling 40-acre site. The heart of the campus is the new 35,000 s.f. Herold Mahoney Library complimented by the new 56,000 s.f. lab and office building, physical education, bookstore and food service.
Designed in a collaborative charrette involving faculty, administrators and design professionals and facilitated by the Energy Studies in Building Laboratory at the University of Oregon, the campus and building design offers many sustainable features including bio-swales, daylight monitors, highly efficient raised floor and displacement HVAC systems and building placement derived from wind tunnel studies.
