For the past ten years the University of California, Davis Medical Center campus in Sacramento has been transforming itself from a sprawling suburban-like campus to a compact and efficient urban medical center. A key support element in that transformation is structured parking.

Dreyfuss & Blackford Architects was selected along with International Parking Design, Inc. to design a new garage that will be economical and efficient, plus a graceful addition to the medical campus and good neighbor to the adjacent residents.

Suspended over the precast concrete structure, a louvered shade screen veils the building from the street and creates privacy for the adjacent patient rooms. Made of over four thousand extruded aluminum fins, each blade is rotated at a distinct angle designed to reflect light inside the structure and create a gentle textured facade above the street.