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Urbandale, IA

Recreation/Safety Shelter

5,580 SF

City of Urbandale

Cameron Campbell,
Integrated Studio

"Uniquely Urbandale"

This project serves a need for both a recreational building and a storm shelter for the City of Urbandale. It provides a large meeting area, kitchen, storage, restrooms and an office at the Walker Johnston Park. It complies with FEMA standards as a protective facility against tornadoes and is designed to resist the highest destructive winds.

Upon approach, steel columns create a rhythm that then support a covered entry and align with the structure of the building. The landscaped area adjacent to the entry helps to frame the path to the building while also creating a contrast to the strong, clean lines of the simple building. The building, made of precast concrete panels, steel, and wood siding, has a low, rectangular silhouette to enable it to flow with the surrounding landscape.