Architects Design Group provided programming, master planning, and full design services for the new 15,000-SF Windermere Town Campus. The campus consists of a consolidated building for town administration and the police department, a separate structure for public works, a pre-engineered metal building for public works storage / workshop, and the central utility plant. The building’s hardened design incorporates redundant systems, allowing it to remain fully functional to ensure continued operational capability.
This facility was designed to be community-friendly in keeping with the town’s commitment to the premise of community policing. The main building utilizes its public lobby space as the front porch for the community and acts as an environmentally controlled connector between town administration and police functions, as well as to the front plaza and rear courtyard. The facility incorporates a separate community meeting room, doubling as the training / conference room within the non-secure area of the building. As a sustainable asset to the Town of Windermere, careful consideration was made during the design process to preserve the existing trees on-site to remain intact, especially the large live oak trees at the entrance. This tree preservation goal, in addition to keeping with the scale of the immediate town context, is what ultimately drove the concept of a campus format with smaller buildings as opposed to one larger building on site.
