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FOOTHILL COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: Ciaremont, CaliforniaThi; project consists of three single story buildings, adding a 5,000 sq ft. Pre -School to the existing K thru 8 Foothill Country Day Schoo campus of 200 students. The buildings include classrooms, home -style kitchen, and bathrooms. Further designing the project primarily for the children, FCDS opted to have the window size: and heights at the children's scale, as is the casework inside the buildings. We think that this further reduces the scale of the buildings in keeping with the children fostered there. The wonderful deep red color of the existing building was kept anc used for the new buildings, but we felt that if used on all surfaces, it would visually overwhelm. Inverting the figure -ground colorE (red walls with white trim vs. white walls with red trim) adds a measure of pre-school whimsy reminiscent of child's crayon colored drawing. This color juxtaposition invites the viewer's eye around the project and tease-, the mind to explore the unpredictable. Gillis & Associates Architects, Inc. was honored wilfi an Award of Excellence from the ArrMectural Commission of the City of Claremont for the design of this project, Contact: Dr. Mark Lauria, Headmaster, 909.626.5681, Extension 16. JURUPA COMMUNITY SERVICES : Mira Loma, California Jurupa Community Services District was faced with the task of determining the viability of two different options to satisfy their current and burgeoning future needs. Gillis & Associates Architects, Inc. was asked to provide architectural services to assist the District in evaluating a purchase of an existing built project or buying a new site and constructing new facilities. Gillis & Associates worked with the District to evaluate their needs and came to the conclusion that the existing property was far and away the more valuable option. Once the option was selected, Gillis & Associates was asked to provide modifications to the existing buildings to more specifically accommodate The District needs and to modify the aesthetics of the Administrative Buildings and its surroundings. The project bid under the Architect's estimate and finished with a change order percentage of less than four percent (4%). Contact: Carole McGreevy, General Manager JCSD,.909.685.7434. BALDWIN PARK SENIOR CENTER: City of Baldwin, California This project converted an almost derelict building into an active Senior Center, extreme care was exercised in designing the project around people whose ambulatory skills were often lower than those around which ADA guidelines are designed. The project was finished on budget within an impossibly tight time frame. Contact: Jim Dart Public Works Supervisor, 818.960.4011 Gillis 0 Associates Architects, Inc. City of Santa Ana — Jerome Center Renovation Page 14 — May 12, 2006