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General Project Information

Architectural Credit:

Principal-in-Charge: Lorcan O’Herlihy
Project Director: Ghazal Khezri
Principal: Ian Dickenson
Project Lead: Joe Tarr, Abel Garcia
Project Team: Morgan Starkey, Kathryn Sonnabend
Project Assist: Kevin Murray, Wentao Guo

Photography: Eric Staudenmaier

Location: Orange, California, United States
Project Substantial Completion Date: 3/1/2023
Program type(s): Education - College/University (campus-level), Public Assembly - Entertainment/Culture
Total Site Area (gross sq. ft): 215892
Total Building Area (gross sq. ft): 57655
Project substantial completion date: 3/1/2023
Climate zone: 3B
Project site: Previously developed land, Historic structure or district
Project team: 
Engineer - Civil: KPFF
Consultant - Theater Consultant: Auberbach Pollock Friedlander
General Contractor: R.D. Olson Construction
Engineer - Structural: Structural Focus
Engineer - MEP: Buro Happold
Engineer - Acoustical: Veneklasen Associates

Project Overview:
Originally built as a headquarters for the Santiago Orange Growers Association in 1918, the post and beam heavy timber frame building is representative of the industrial vernacular style of its time. LOHA’s adaptive-reuse strategy opens the structure with a calculated cut through the original floor, allowing a reorganization into three levels and forming a new circulation. The Sandi Simon Center for Dance houses studio spaces for one-on-one and small groups instruction, performance spaces, and a faculty studio and offices. The center addresses not only the studio and classroom needs of the dance program, providing spaces for students to socially engage.

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