DUBLIN CIVIC CENTER by Ar.

George Miers & -21,000 SF of Administrative offices

Associates (Dublin, CA
-19,000 SF Police Facility

-150 seat Council Chamber

concrete masonry units, eastern US limestone
-1,500 SF Regional Meetingroom /w a cable TV
studio

-home to city's administrative offices and police -

services

-53,000 sqr. ft. (16,154.4 sqr. m.)

Rental facilities
-two semicircular wings around courtyard
-1,250 sqr. ft.(381 m.) rectangular room
housing the Police Dep. & municipal
offices(offset along east/west axis to w/ kithenette, drop down screen, overview
window of Civic Center grounds.
accomodate future expansion in both buildings/

-steel framed structure

**fountain
-Arizona sandstone exterior

-lanscaped int. couryard **covered parking with solar panels(not sure)

**nearby sports ground, auto parts shop, fire

-68ft. (20.7264 m.) clock tower
department,
-inludes
http://www.e-smasonry.com/Dublin-Civic-
--performing arts theater, library & Center.html
Gymnasium facility https://www.swattmiers.com/dublin-civic-
center
West Wing(via google maps) http://www.ci.dublin.ca.us/Facilities/Facility/De
-Dublin City Economic Development tails/18
http://www.ci.dublin.ca.us/24/Economic-
-City of Dublin Fire Prevention Bureau Development
http://www.ci.dublin.ca.us/24/Economic-
-Dublin City Recycling
Development
-Dublin City Planning & Zoning http://www.ci.dublin.ca.us/21/Finance-
Administrative-Services
East Wing(Via Google Maps)

-City Clerck
Vaughan Civic Center Resource Library by ZAS -movable book collection stacks(as needs for
Architects+Interiors (Vaughan, ON, Canada) community evolution daily or annually)

**transparent public areas attracts passerbys

*dedicated to community learning, gathering,

creating and celebration

*translucent form
https://www.archdaily.com/793618/vaughan-
*pattern shifting glass panels represents civic-centre-resource-library-zas-architects-plus-
overlaps of ideas interiors

*the library’s marketplace café, and open https://www.canadianarchitect.com/features/v

reading area welcome visitors as they enter aughan-resource-library/

*monochromatic exterior facade helps viewers

focus on the shape

*colorful interior establish distinct zones

*open meeting areas w/ places for private study

*dynamic natural lighting

-outdoor garden courtyard and symbolic red

maple "Tree of Knowledge"

-teen-only lounge

-large study hall

-public-access comps

-children activity area in circle representing

"circle of community"

-extensive public activity space

-maker's-spaces(3d printers, media suite, sound

recording and video studio, green screen

-multi-generational and diverse spaces