Schools and Institutions

Parking Structure, Riverside Community College, Riverside, CA

IDLA prepared a schematic design that required coordination with an arborist and, a conceptual landscape master plan, and construction documents including planting and irrigation plans, for the new construction of a multi‐level parking structure for the RCC Riverside Campus. Because the highly anticipated parking structure is surrounded by steep slopes on two sides, IDLA included options for slope stabilization and maintenance.

Ramona High School

"The landscape renovation work done by IDLA at Ramona High School has change the culture of the campus. Ramona is now a beautiful place to learn and grow. The design is not only beautiful, it is sustainable. I look forward to renovating many other campuses in the same way."

-Ken Mueller, Director, Maintenance and Operations, RUSD

When Riverside Unified School District decided to rehabilitate this aging high school, a large advisory committee consisting of school district personnel, school administrators, parents, and community leaders was assembled. The committee's wish list caused costs to spiral out of control, well past the $5 million budget that had been set by the district.

IDLA was able to work closely with the committee and through value engineering open communication, and close construction monitoring, was able to keep the school under budget by $600,000, and, more importantly, keep all committee members satisfied with the end product.

IDLA provided schematic design, design development, construction documents and construction assistance for the landscape improvements, which include: 

  • Walkways and seating areas around trees
  • Parking Lot reconfigurations
  • Improvements to security, including fencing and lighting
  • New drought tolerant planting and irrigation
  • Kiosks for posting student announcements
  • Addition of a lunch area
  • Addition of site furnishings

Elementary Schools, Riverside Unified School District, Riverside, CA

Riverside Unified School District (RUSD) has retained IDLA to provide landscape architectural services to several of its campuses in the district. Currently, IDLA is providing landscape renovations, landscape standards, and district‐wide landscape planting and irrigation design standards. RUSD schools include:

  • Magnolia Elementary School
  • Castleview Elementary School
  • Pachappa Elementary School
  • Emerson Elementary School
  • Mountain View Elementary School

East Campus Infrastructure, University of California, Riverside, CA

Underground multi‐utility upgrade

Telecommunications Upgrade, California State University, San Bernardino, CA

IDLA provided landscape architecture services to the school when inter‐ and intra‐building telecommunications infrastructure was upgraded throughout the campus.

School for Performing and Media Arts, Riverside Community College, Riverside, CA

Once built, this new addition to RCC will provide a space in which to learn about the principles of physics and math in the context of the arts with computer‐generated visual effects, interactive media, drawing, film, design, music composition, sculpture and/or metal fabrication.

The Riverside School for the Arts is unique in that it merges six educational systems – Riverside Community College District, University of California, Riverside, University of Redlands, La Sierra University, Riverside Unified School District and Nuview Union School District.

IDLA provided landscape architectural design services for the new RCC building that will house the School for Performing and Media Arts in downtown Riverside. IDLA prepared a Preliminary Design, Conceptual Landscape Master Plan, and Construction Documents for this project that is currently awaiting funding.

Parking Lots #14 and #30, University of California, Riverside, CA

This parking expansion project added 200 spaces to existing Lot 14, and demolished 500 existing spaces and replaced them with over 2,130 spaces at existing Lot 30. Included in the Lot 30 design was the parking lot layout, paving design, parking lot drainage including four on‐site detention basins and a storm drain connection to the City of Riverside storm drain system, signing and striping, sidewalks, curb and gutter, a 28‐foot wide concrete and masonry stairway, lengthening a left turn pocket on Canyon Crest Drive, widening 1,375 linear feet of the north side of Martin Luther King Boulevard (a City of Riverside street) including the widening of a pretensioned slab bridge over the Gage Canal, covering 580 linear feet of the Canal, a new traffic signal on Martin Luther King Boulevard immediately west of the Gage Canal, and signing and striping plans for the widened segment of Martin Luther King Boulevard. Incorporated will be the Landscaping and irrigation design along with the lighting/electrical design