Del Mar Civic Center

The Del Mar Civic Center was designed to reflect its community, a laid-back beach town known for intimately-scaled Coastal Craftsman wood architecture. The warmth of the wood structure creates a welcoming and comfortable interior for the city’s main civic gathering space, which includes both a Town Hall and City Hall offices. Inspired by the needle pattern of the Torrey Pine, the iconic cupola-shaped roof over the Town Hall is spanned by a kingpost truss that includes glulam top chords and steel-tension members. Glulam beams and open-web wood trusses frame the City Hall roof while glulam columns provide support at curtainwall areas. To manage sound, designers chose a wood acoustical panel grille system. Where glulam beams and wood trusses extend to the exterior, they attached wood eave tails for added durability. The one-story structure sits above a Type 1A concrete parking garage. 12,893 sf/Type VB construction