The Stockton
The Stockton, originally a 252-room hotel built in 1910, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, lay vacant for 20 years due to cost-prohibitive and function-prohibitive rehabilitation designs by other engineers. Miyamoto’s High Performance Earthquake Engineering approach made this adaptive re-use project viable, preserving the integrity of the historic structure, while providing new office and retail spaces along with affordable senior housing units. The seismic technology employed by Miyamoto provided over a 20% reduction in story drift, protecting existing brittle materials and reducing member stresses to nearly elastic levels. In other words, the building performance was upgraded from potential collapse to near immediate occupancy after a major seismic event. Miyamoto performed nonlinear dynamic analyses and designed seismic shock dampers and fiber reinforced polymer composites at the first story level to reduce seismic demand, producing a very economical rehabilitation cost of $9/SF.
Location
Stockton, CA
Year
2004
Project Cost
24 Million
Size
145,000 SF
Market
Commercial
- Awards
- 2007 California Preservation Foundation Design Award for Rehabilitation
- 2005 Certificate of Recognition of Preserving and Restoring the Historic Landmark, California State Assembly
- 2005 Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards, Special Use Structures, SEAOC (Structural Engineers Association of Central California)
- 2005 Best Historic Rehabilitation, Affordable Housing, National Housing & Rehabilitation Association
- 2005 Honorable Mention, Affordable Housing Tax Credit Coalition
