Northwest Vista College Parking Garage

Designed with strong vertical articulation at the circulation to capture the style of other new structures on the campus, the project features glass, metal, and a masonry stair towers capped by a metal clad roof. For the parking bays a deceptively simple set of curved perforated screens mask the horizontal parking levels and add color, scale, texture and rhythm to the structure. Parking bays are laid out in the most efficient two-bay module with ramped parking along the south side and flat bays on the north side. The structure is sited to comfortably fit in the existing Northwest Vista campus and nestles next to a reserved natural area.  Locating the structure sitting on an existing parking field minimizes the environmental impact and no trees needed be removed from the campus to accommodate this new parking.