Inside, strips of tilt-up concrete complement natural wood finishes.

The 25,000-square-foot Community Support Facility at Jackson Park was built under the design/build process that paired WPC with Architects BCRA-Tsang, AHBL and BCE Engineers.

The Community Support Facility is actually a chapel and school combined in one — with a large meeting area/chapel at one end and classrooms, offices and a small library at the other.

The Community Support Facility at Jackson Park was built on a steep slope that was leveled off with 16,000 cubic yards of fill. Photos courtesy of WPC

Inside the community facility, WPC was able to create an interesting complement to the exposed wood structure roof by using concrete tilt-up panels and pre-cast columns, which were selected with the help of BCRA-Tsang.

Part of the Navy’s plan for the community facility was to tie it into an existing child development center that sat at the top of a hill above the building site. To make that work, 16,000 cubic yards of dirt were moved to bring the new building pad up to the child center’s elevation. A circular courtyard was added to further tie the buildings.

Over 17,000 labor-hours were spent on the project with no accidents.