This facility serves as a centralized dispatch center for all of Arizona State University’s existing and future campuses and includes an emergency operations center, temporary suspect holding facilities, evidence processing storage facilities and on-site secure parking. Expressing a contemporary institutional character drawn from the attributes of its regional urban setting and system of concrete/metal panel construction, the design incorporates an appropriate level of complexity, mediating between a regular pattern of panels and openings and the security needs at ground level.

The building responds to the environment on a larger scale through sustainable building design, and is LEED Gold certification. The main entrance is clearly established through the introduction of an external void on the corner that virtually allows the sidewalk to enter the building. A large, suspended shade trellis extends from the entrance above an intimately scaled landscape courtyard, creating an inviting public square. Perforated metal screen walls and open wire fencing with climbing plantings surround the secure parking/operation area.

LEED Gold certified >>