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High Park Pool in Baldwin Park

Baldwin Park Community Center

The Baldwin Park Community Center is the first room and exercise facility. The building also
community center planned for the Baldwin Park features oculus windows in the locker rooms
neighborhood in Orlando, Florida. The facility looking out on to the pool.
houses a meeting hall, kitchen, exercise facility, Several challenges arose as the design ensued
locker rooms, pool area, and children’s play area. It including maintaining a residential scale and
is located on Fern Avenue in the Southwest corner character, security and maintenance of a high-use
of the development. The facility opened in 2003 multi-purpose facility, and financial realities.
and is already a focal point and gathering place for Precedence for the design came from clubhouses
the growing community. and other small community buildings in the
surrounding downtown area and the residential
True to the design principles of Palladio, the designs of Edwin Lutyens, a British architect. A
building is divided into two symmetrical wings that one-story plan was necessary to take advantage of
are joined by a classical arcade, cupola, and clock. the large site as well as remain within the given
The façade of the building houses screened budget.
porches while the rear of the building supports the
locker rooms and storage for the pool facility. The
building is constructed of concrete block with
lapped cementitious siding, mitered at the corners.
Eyebrow eaves with exposed rafter tails accentuate
the entrance. Two dramatic bay windows flank the
building and allow ample light into the meeting

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