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ARCHITECT'S STATEMENT
The county jail expansion’s form and appearance are
drawn from its unique setting and overarching goal to improve
conditions for staff and inmates. The county’s decision to
jointly operate the new downtown facility with an existing,
adjacent jail was combined with an urban planning strategy that
created a multiple-block civic campus. The project’s overall
massing and details complement these public spaces. Key to the
design concept was a city zoning variance dictating the jail
expansion should not “look like a jail.” Its
fritted-glass curtain wall façade achieves this in two ways:
by obscuring typical concrete walls and narrow jail window patterns
during the day and creating ethereal and unexpected patterns of
diffused light from cells at night. By including video visitation
facilities and secure connections between the separate jail
buildings and courts, the facility offers safer inmate movement for
staff and increased inmate availability for attorney and family
visits.
OWNER
Snohomish County
Everett, Washington
DATE
Type of facility: Correctional, court, and
detention
Type of construction: Addition and renovation
Site area: 104,000 SF
Area of building: 278,000 GSF
Capacity: 640 beds
Total cost of construction: $86.5 million
Status of project: Completed 2006
CREDITS
Architect
NBBJ
Seattle
Design-build architect
Mortenson
Bellevue, Washington
Structural engineer
MKA
Seattle
Mechanical engineer
CBG Consulting Engineers
Portland, Oregon
Electrical engineer
Abacus Engineered Systems
Seattle
Civil engineer
Reid Middleton
Everett, Washington
Security consultant
Detention Solutions
San Antonio
Electronic security consultant
Latta Technical Services Inc.
Plato, Texas
Food service and laundry consultant
Clevenger Associates
Puyallup, Washington
Acoustics and audiovisual consultant
The Greenbusch Group
Seattle
Landscape design consultant
Site Workshop
Seattle
General consultants
Omni Group Inc.
Los Angeles
Shockey/Brent Inc.
Everett, Washington
Photographer
Frank Ooms
Denver
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