Category: Projects

  • Samuell-Grand Recreation Center

    Samuell-Grand Recreation Center

    The City of Dallas Parks and Recreation Department put bond funds aside for the renovation and improvements to Samuel Grand Recreation Center located at 6200 East Grand Avenue, Dallas, Texas.

    Once the Tennis Center was built and moved out of the Recreation Center, the renovation began with a construction budget of $1,762,500.00 which included a new expanded Commercial Kitchen; Multipurpose rooms; new Computer Room; and a new Fitness/ Weight room, upgrade Restrooms and Gym Control Booth; replace HVAC & Controls; and install new basketball goals. This improvement and expansion project increase the building footprint to 14, 000 sq.ft. The original structure was built in 1958 and design by architect George Dahl.

  • Samuell-Grand Tennis Center

    Samuell-Grand Tennis Center

    The City of Dallas Parks and Recreation Department is building a new pro-shop for the Samuell-Grand Tennis Center. This facility is approximately 2500 square feet and contains restrooms, office space, storage, retail space and areas for vending and small group discussion. The orientation of the building allows for day lighting opportunities to the northeast, and southwest. The interior circulation is centralized around the front desk.

    The Northeast windows look out onto the neighboring courts and the Southwest windows look toward the parking lot, teaching court and entry to the tennis center. We created a garden entry and courtyard area with the remaining area of Court 14. The center is the equivalent of two courts or 13,200 sq.ft. The building itself is 2251 sq.ft.

  • MARTA 10th Street Station/Midtown Transit Station

    MARTA 10th Street Station/Midtown Transit Station

    When Charles McAfee examined it according to their criteria, he realized that it was incorrect. When he mentioned this, they became upset because they had been paid for doing the preliminary design. But when Charles showed them what was wrong, they had to agree. They said, “Ok, if you do it and it goes over budget, you’re going to have to pay for it.” He went ahead and revised the preliminary design of the building so that it could be seen from the street in Atlanta, ultimately saving them $5,000,000 of their budget through the way he designed it.The station is a gray board from poured-in-place reinforced concrete structure which was designed to accommodate a patron concourse at grade level. A station support facility at an intermediate level, a passenger platform, plus a future pedestrian plaza on the roof. The patron concourse and the bus loading/unloading area share a common roof canopy which covers approximately 120 ft by 200 ft. The canopy is constructed by intersecting reinforced concrete beams which are structurally designed to support a pedestrian plaza The openings formed by the interesting beams will be covered in skylights. This will allow natural light to enter and provide shelter for the area below.

  • COTPA/Oklahoma City Transit Center

    COTPA/Oklahoma City Transit Center

    The new Oklahoma City Transit Center is a $4.8 million facility that accommodates 17 buses internally, express and trolley buses with an off-street depressed lane, and a kiss-n-ride drop off lane. The site layout and accessible circulation pattern provide customer friendly directions and public safety enhancements. The bus platform amenities include landscaping, benches, interactive signage, and Public Art and advertisement panels. The canopies provide ample shelter, generous illumination, and serves as a Symbolic Gateway for patrons. The Transit Center houses restrooms, public telephones, vending machines, a concierge area, and the interior seating is surrounded by a glass enclosure. The views allow patrons to observe arriving buses. Materials used throughout the facility are polished and rough faced “Trendstone” masonry units, wood glue-laminated beams and ceiling, terrazzo flooring, brushed aluminum storefront and windscreens, standing seam roofs, and “Supersky” translucent panels. The design is organized, simple and deliberate, promoting user-friendly movement.

  • Brown Residence

    Brown Residence

    This is Kansas, Big Prairie, Big Sky; With a touch of water fifty feet below. This site consists of six other family structures, each constructed at different times to satisfy the requirements of various generations of the same family. Children, grandchildren, friends and relatives within one space, this was the program. The space must be defined as all that can be associated with the senses possessed by each and every person. Both within and without the living family unit.The design utilizes the sites in such a way as to give views in two directions toward the lake, across cottonwood and elm trees and green then gold Kansas wheat, and an ever changing sky of blue and orange. Designed around a tortured mulberry tree, that had not borne fruit, both levels have grade entrances. The materials inside as well as outside are warm-tone board formed concrete, rough sawn cedar siding and bronze glass. Natural light controlled by orientation or a system of shed forms. Warmed by interior cedar and fir columns, beams and decking, brings the space into the balance with other materials.

  • Owens Residence

    Owens Residence

    This is a unique site in a residential neighborhood. The home is built around the existing trees left undisturbed and along the edge of the Arkansas River. The floor plan parallels the river. The east facing windows have a spectacular panoramic view of the river. The west facing windows have an amazing view of the sunset. The lower level includes bedrooms, a family room and a painting studio. The stairs and the hallways in the home are designed in such a way that as you ascend or descend into the space it is tantamount to gallery wall in a museum. The contemporary residence elegantly nestled along the river provides efficiently in assembled living spaces that gracefully meet the needs of the clients in their creation of art, areas for display and exhibits, and to entertain their guests.

  • Modular

    Modular

    The new Secretary of HUD came from an automobile company, his name was George Romney, and didn’t know anything about building housing, but he made a statement one day, and in his speech, he said, “We need to learn how to build houses like we build cars in factories.” Charles McAfee started designing boxes. He built 4 modules, two on the first floor, and 2 on the 2nd floor, and two stair modules that were 8 x 10 or 8 x 12 and got them built. Across town where the site was located, he built footings and foundation walls and let them dry for a week, and then he moved these six modules across town on trucks

  • Technical College System of Georgia

    Technical College System of Georgia

    Atlanta Technical College Student Success Center supports and enhances student academic growth and success by providing superior academic advisement assistance, delivering outstanding supplemental learning services and exposing students to useful resources. This 4,000 sq.ft. complete renovation is an existing library conversion to a computer lab, administrative offices, consultation and advisement rooms, conference rooms, resource areas, restroom, storage, reception and student waiting areas.

    There are two 55inch information monitors that are wall mounted and one mobile smartboard. Mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems were placed including low voltage wiring and new 100 amp electrical panel. The renovation also includes replacement of ceiling tiles and carpet.

  • El Centro College

    El Centro College

    El Centro is an urban campus in the heart of downtown Dallas and was the first campus of the Dallas County Community College District. Based on the relocation of the Nursing and Health Services programs moving to the Paramount Building as apart of the 2004 DCCCD Bond program, this project’s scope of services was to take 44,000 sq.ft of abandoned classrooms and miscellaneous space and renovate into new classrooms; reconfigure departments, offices and waiting areas associated with Student intake services; Admissions, Financial Aid, Counseling, Testing and Assessment; and a new Biology and 3 Chemistry Labs will be added.

  • Morehouse School of Medicine

    Morehouse School of Medicine

    McAfee3 provides planning and design services for the School of Medicine including redesign of laboratory facilities and administrative offices. Additionally, McAfee3 has created a gateway and streetscape into the campus complex. The gateway reflects the heritage of the institution and complements the existing campus structures. The streetscape project incorporates redesign of traffic flow and street beautification. In addition, McAfee3 was tasked with renovating the Dean’s Office and two research laboratories.