Robert Livermore Community Center

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Robert Livermore Community Center

Location: Livermore, CA
Architects: BSA Architects
Photography: Tom Rider

The ambitious 76,000 square foot Robert Livermore Community Recreation Center is an extensive and important community resource. The Center includes a senior center, a community center with a divisible multi-purpose room and administrative offices for district staff. There is also a recreation center with large gymnasium; an aquatics center, with two separate pools - one for recreation, one for competition - and administration offices, an aerobics/dance studio, teen center, childcare facilities, and a cafe. All of which provides the facility with multiple diverse areas, spaces and functions.

To bring cohesion to the varied spaces and functions, a "family of fixtures" was developed for all interior and exterior areas. Using readily available and inexpensive fixtures, along with custom, perforated sheet metal, acrylic-lined shrouds to mount over otherwise standard indoor and outdoor pendant and sconce fixtures, our lighting design studio created a custom, decorative family look at modest, standard fixture pricing. The result is an inexpensive and easy to maintain lighting system that brings visual organization and continuity to the expansive facility.

Illumination Design Award of Merit
IESNA Golden Gate Section

Excellence in Design Award
California Park & Recreation Society