Goleta Valley Medical Building
Formal Name: Cottage Medical Systems: Goleta Valley Medical Building
Type: Rigid Frame structural steel system with composite poured concrete decks
Building method: Structural steel and Concrete with Plaster facade and aluminum curtainwall system
Goleta Valley Medical Building
5333 Hollister Ave
Santa Barbara, CA 93111-2301
Description: This 52,000 sq ft, two story medical office building designed by SWA Architects from Pasadena is going to be the Class A medical office complex in the Goleta Valley. The $26,000,000 price tag includes the new, fully leased, office building with fourteen medical office suites. Once the building is complete the older Medical Office Building just west of this new building will be demolished after the doctors move out from the old building and in to the new building. The exterior facade is very modern and very “Goleta” in that it makes great use of local Santa Barbara sandstone veneers, metal sun screens and a modern curtainwall system with dual glazed, energy efficient glass that meets current State Energy standards.
The structure of the building is a rigid frame steel structure with composite steel deck and concrete floors at the second floor and roof decks. The foundation of the building is designed as a floating slab to spread the building load over the entire building footprint. The floating footing is a 36” thick slab under the entire building with reinforcing bar at the top and bottom of the slab. On top of that was placed 3’ of soil to accommodate plumbing piping and then the finish slab was poured on top of that for the finish floor. The Roof covering is a single ply rubberized roofing material that is heat welded at all seams to prevent leaks. The exterior walls are all framed with steel studs with a 1” layer of rigid insulation on the outside face of the studs and then 7/8” of plaster with a finish coat reinforced with glass fibers to minimize cracking. The surface was painted with two coats of acrylic laytex paint. The curtainwall system consists of dual layers of 1/8” glass with infra-red absorbing coating. The combination of glazing and plaster brings the interior sound levels down to less than 65 db for a comfortable working environment. All of the light fixtures in the building use light emitting diodes (LEDs) to reduce the overall electrical load. The building has two elevators and two sets of exit stairs.
