Daedalus Structural Engineering
UCSB Activities Center

This Recreation and Aquatics complex is an assemblage of integrated outdoor and indoor spaces including two major linking courtyards, garden court, 2 swimming pools, and playing fields outdoors and an entrance lobby, corridor/gallery, two multi-court gymnasiums, six racquetball courts, two squash courts, two weight training spaces, locker rooms, 2-story athletic department offices and support spaces indoors. Buildings utilize steel concentric braced frame lateral systems integrated with timber framed roof systems that expose T&G wood deck ceilings and glue laminated beams. The large size of the overall wood framed structure, variable roof elevation and complex plan layout led to uncommonly large gravity and seismic forces for a largely timber-framed building.

Project by Doug Robertson as Associate and Project Manager with Rutherford & Chekene


Innovations & Features

Exposed six-foot deep, 105-foot span timber glue laminated beams support the main gymnasium roof.

Developed custom blind connections in glue-laminated beams for large seismic collector load transfers between different height building wings.

Detailed exposed glue laminated arches define the vaulted gallery roof.


Architect |Sasaki Associates, Inc. with Grant Pedersen Phillips Metsch Sweeney
Contractor |Viola Contractors

This Recreation and Aquatics complex is an assemblage of integrated outdoor and indoor spaces including two major linking courtyards, garden court, 2 swimming pools, and playing fields outdoors and an entrance lobby, corridor/gallery, two multi-court gymnasiums, six racquetball courts, two squash courts, two weight training spaces, locker rooms, 2-story athletic department offices and support spaces indoors. Buildings utilize steel concentric braced frame lateral systems integrated with timber framed roof systems that expose T&G wood deck ceilings and glue laminated beams. The large size of the overall wood framed structure, variable roof elevation and complex plan layout led to uncommonly large gravity and seismic forces for a largely timber-framed building.

Project by Doug Robertson as Associate and Project Manager with Rutherford & Chekene


Innovations & Features

Exposed six-foot deep, 105-foot span timber glue laminated beams support the main gymnasium roof.

Developed custom blind connections in glue-laminated beams for large seismic collector load transfers between different height building wings.

Detailed exposed glue laminated arches define the vaulted gallery roof.


Architect |Sasaki Associates, Inc. with Grant Pedersen Phillips Metsch Sweeney
Contractor |Viola Contractors

This Recreation and Aquatics complex is an assemblage of integrated outdoor and indoor spaces including two major linking courtyards, garden court, 2 swimming pools, and playing fields outdoors and an entrance lobby, corridor/gallery, two multi-court gymnasiums, six racquetball courts, two squash courts, two weight training spaces, locker rooms, 2-story athletic department offices and support spaces indoors. Buildings utilize steel concentric braced frame lateral systems integrated with timber framed roof systems that expose T&G wood deck ceilings and glue laminated beams. The large size of the overall wood framed structure, variable roof elevation and complex plan layout led to uncommonly large gravity and seismic forces for a largely timber-framed building.

Project by Doug Robertson as Associate and Project Manager with Rutherford & Chekene


Innovations & Features

Exposed six-foot deep, 105-foot span timber glue laminated beams support the main gymnasium roof.

Developed custom blind connections in glue-laminated beams for large seismic collector load transfers between different height building wings.

Detailed exposed glue laminated arches define the vaulted gallery roof.


Architect |Sasaki Associates, Inc. with Grant Pedersen Phillips Metsch Sweeney
Contractor |Viola Contractors

This Recreation and Aquatics complex is an assemblage of integrated outdoor and indoor spaces including two major linking courtyards, garden court, 2 swimming pools, and playing fields outdoors and an entrance lobby, corridor/gallery, two multi-court gymnasiums, six racquetball courts, two squash courts, two weight training spaces, locker rooms, 2-story athletic department offices and support spaces indoors. Buildings utilize steel concentric braced frame lateral systems integrated with timber framed roof systems that expose T&G wood deck ceilings and glue laminated beams. The large size of the overall wood framed structure, variable roof elevation and complex plan layout led to uncommonly large gravity and seismic forces for a largely timber-framed building.

Project by Doug Robertson as Associate and Project Manager with Rutherford & Chekene


Innovations & Features

Exposed six-foot deep, 105-foot span timber glue laminated beams support the main gymnasium roof.

Developed custom blind connections in glue-laminated beams for large seismic collector load transfers between different height building wings.

Detailed exposed glue laminated arches define the vaulted gallery roof.


Architect |Sasaki Associates, Inc. with Grant Pedersen Phillips Metsch Sweeney
Contractor |Viola Contractors

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