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Active ProjectsEl Cariso Regional Park Gymnasium and Community CenterArtist:
Cliff Garten Studio
Date:
2011
Region:
San Fernando Valley
District:
Third
Location:
El Cariso Community Regional Park Gymnasium and Community Center
13100 Hubbard Street Sylmar, CA 91342 Department:
Parks & Recreation
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Project DescriptionThe El Cariso Community Regional Park was named for the El Cariso Hot Shots, a firefighting crew that lost ten members while fighting the Loop Fire of 1966. The 79-acre park, located in Sylmar, includes a golf course, swimming pool, tennis courts, picnic tables, playground, sports and baseball fields. In 2008, the pool and pool house were renovated, including replacement of 1,000 linear feet of chain link fencing surrounding the pool. In partnership with Pedersen, Beckhart, Wesley, and Stice Architects (PBWS), artist Rod Baer developed a custom fence design. In addition to the pool and pool house renovation, the County is building a 15,000 square foot facility that will include a gymnasium, multi-purpose room, classroom, full kitchen and outdoor courtyard that can be rented for special events. The project will be implemented using the design-build method and will be silver certified by LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), a program of the U.S. Green Building Council. The project is scheduled to be complete in 2011. About the ArtistLocated in Venice California, Cliff Garten Studio has over twenty years of public art experience specializing in sustainability, integrated art and landscape design and master planning. Familiar with LEED certification, Cliff Garten Studio recently completed a public art master plan designed with LEED standards for landscape sculpture for Moffett Towers in Sunnyvale, CA. The master plan included earthworks, granite and bronze fountains and lighting sculptures. Founder Cliff Garten received his Masters in Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design and a Masters of Landscape Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He is the recipient of the Jerome Foundation Traveling Artist Grant and two artist fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Bush Foundation Fellowship for Individual Artists and the Bush Foundation Leadership Fellowship.
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