Orange Memorial Eco Park Springs Up in South San Francisco

<a href="http://www.ssf.net/index.aspx?nid=377" target="_blank">Orange Memorial Park</a> in South San Francisco is a new recreational venue for area residents that includes a soccer field, a picnic area, basketball courts, a playground, and other outdoor amenities in addition to a brand new recreation building. Designed by <a href="http://www.wonglogan.com/" target="_blank">Marcy Wong Donn Logan Architects</a>, the recreation building serves as the focal point of the park and a place for cultural, recreational, celebratory, and educational activities. Airy, light-filled and sustainably built, the Orange Memorial Park Pavilion will serving as an extraordinary <a href="http://inhabitat.com/2010/10/01/renderings-released-for-park51-mosque-and-community-center/" target="_blank">community and recreational center</a> for years to come.

Orange Memorial Park is a 21-acre urban park filled with a soccer field, basketball courts, a playground, a picnic area, and a recreational pavilion.

The pavilion was designed by Marcy Wong Donn Logan Architects to house a number of different activities inside.

Sustainably designed and built, the park was sited in the center to avoid an existing Magnolia tree grove and oriented to take advantage of solar passive design.

Large overhangs and sun shades protect the interior from the hot summer sun, but still let in ample daylighting.

The building is composed of two different volumes. The first is the open, airy, and light-filled pavilion with a timber beam roof, and behind it is a square volume clad in basalt that houses offices, kitchen, storage and bathrooms.

The pavilion was left with an open floor plan in order to be a flexible space for education activities, cultural programs, and community and private events.

Stained concrete floors keep material use to a minimum and provide a non-toxic flooring option.

Light from outside streams in through large windows in the pavilion and reaches all the way back into the rest of the building.

The building also features bioswales to collect stormwater runoff, a cool roof to minimize heat gain, and energy-efficient design.

The Pavilion is composed of two volumes: a large activity room, and service rooms in the back.

Orange Memorial Park includes many outdoor recreational amenities for area residents.