<%@LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%> Pump Station 'Q'
WET WEATHER PUMP STATION "Q"
East Bay Municipal Utilities District
Oakland, CA

Client
G.S.Dodson, Civil Engineers (prime)

Scope
Architectural Design, Code Evaluation, Construction Document Review

Cost
$750,000 (bldg. only)
$11,300,000
(entire civil engineering project)

Completed
1995

Pump Station Q, situated in an industrial neighborhood that is increasingly gentrified, demanded a more architectural solution to housing a pumping station than a concrete box.

PROJECT DETAILS

The North Interceptor Wet Weather Facility Pump Station Q is a sewage pumping station to be operated only during peak storm seasons. The Utility District was open to something new, even if it looked like something old.  We used the District's 1920's classical style watershed headquarters as an aesthetic starting point, but added touches reminiscent of 1980's post-modernism to place the building in-the-now. The colored cast-in-place concrete walls have an aged quality to them, and the false windows (closed for security) are the color of aged copper.