Mark Cavagnero Associates Architects

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    Orinda Park Pool

    Status

    Completed, 2006

    Size

    10,000 sf

    Client

    Orinda Park Pool

    Scope

    Concept Design, Schematic Design, Design Development, Construction Documentation, Construction Administration

    Project Team

    Mark Cavagnero
    Laura Blake
    Joseph Gabriel

    Project Collaborators

    General Contractor: Webcor Builders
    Owner’s Representative: ProPM
    Geotech: Treadwell & Rollo
    Civil: Moran Engineering
    Structural: Tuan and Robinson
    Electrical: O’Mahoney and Myer
    Pool: Aquatic Design Group
    Acoustics: Charles Salter Associates
    Cost: Davis Langdon
    Architectural Photography: Steve Whittaker

    Description

    The project includes replacing the existing outdoor pool and surrounding landscape with a new pool and new site work. The Orinda Park Pool membership treasured their existing pool – an old pond that was given a concrete lining in the 1920s. The pool is located on a neighbor hillside site surrounded by heritage oak trees. The members liked the pool’s unique shape and wanted to retain the pool and surrounding site’s character while making safety, accessibility and technical upgrades. The membership also wanted to preserve the heritage oak trees on the site.

    Mark Cavagnero Associates worked closely with the membership to develop a new pool design that retained the character of the existing pool as much as possible while including a series of safety upgrades required by code. The sloped concrete deck around the pool--which sloped more than 3 feet from one end of the pool to the other--was carefully leveled to seamlessly align with the surrounding landscaping, trees and buildings. A new wood deck, wood retaining walls and wood fencing were designed to complement the pools organic shape and integrate into the surrounding hillside setting.

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