Tucker Sadler Architects Inc. designed a ticket booth and two concessions buildings at San Diego Symphony’s Bayside Performance Park with translucent wall panels that have custom graphics of trees. The graphics were produced with photographs of trees that were removed from the site for the project.
“You are actually looking at the trees on the building that used to be in the park. You are still sitting in between those trees, and it’s a kind of celebration of what was there before, but in a new, modern expression,” says Sal Villanueva, AIA, architect at Tucker Sadler. “We wanted to seek out a material that would allow us to create that image on our pavilions.”
Primary Glazing installed Kingspan Light + Air LLC’s UniQuad translucent wall panels with custom graphics. Building corners are rounded with polycarbonate corner conditions that minimize the amount of visible metal, thus creating a smooth appearance.
The ticket booth has a double-panel translucent assembly that acts as a wall; the concessions buildings have single-panel assemblies with walls on the insides and light fixtures in between to create a light-box effect. From the exterior, both the single- and double-panel assemblies appear identical.
