Gwinnett County Animal Welfare Center - Lawrenceville, GA

Pond provided full design services from master planning and programming through the construction of the new facility. The facility is more than double the size of the previous facility and is equipped with state of the art technology and the latest innovations in animal care. The shelter is the most modern facility of its kind in the state. It is large enough to house 232 dogs and 309 cats, several more exotic animals and has space for reptiles. The new shelter features isolated living areas to decrease cross-contamination and also has areas for spaying/ neutering.

Specialty animal shelter design services were provided by Connolly Architecture. Needing to accommodate a large volume of animals with a relatively small staff created the opportunity to design an unusually large facility which has a major presence fronting on a busy highway.

The shelter houses all administrative and animal care spaces under one roof, which both eases the burden for staff and allows simplified access control for security purposes.  The design featured rows of storefront windows both inside and out to allow natural light to flow into the “landlocked” spaces in the building core.  Interior glass also created visual sightlines for staff to monitor activities in other rooms from a distance.  Light monitors or clerestories bring even more sunlight to interior spaces.

The exterior materials, color palette and building’s U-shape breaks down the shelter’s institutional scale.  Red brick, which complements the nearby police training facility, defines the animal support areas while metal and store front commercial windows define the public administration and adoption areas.  To complete the campus, Connolly designed outdoor animal play areas and a grazing pasture, livestock barn and a K-9 facility to house and train police dogs.

The shelter houses all administrative and animal care spaces under one roof, which both eases the burden for staff and allows simplified access control for security purposes.  The design features rows of storefront windows both inside and out to allow natural light to flow into the “landlocked” spaces in the building core.  Interior glass also creates visual sightlines for staff to monitor activities in other rooms from a distance.  Light monitors or clerestories bring even more sunlight to interior spaces.

The exterior materials, color palette and building’s U-shape breaks down the shelter’s institutional scale.  Red brick, which complements the nearby police training facility, defines the animal support areas while metal and store front commercial windows define the public administration and adoption areas.  Outdoor animal play areas, a grazing pasture, livestock barn and K-9 facility to house and train police dogs completed the facility.

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