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AVE Santa Clara building, an eight-story residential mid-rise with over three hundred homes including a parking garaga, down the street from Levis’s Stadium. The open parking façade is covered with a Dedots screens, an artwork created in collaboration with a local artists Roan Victor. In her words: “It makes me smile to know that I get to show you these giant, larger than life scrub jays hanging out around the silhouette of a grand Coast Live Oak tree. I always relish these opportunities to share something about our California native flora and fauna.”
Developer:
Ensemble Investments
Architect:
Photographer:
Artist:
Roan Victor
Open parking façades often feel utilitarian, sterile and visually disconnected from the neighborhood. They typically offer no identity or storytelling, making them background infrastructure rather than architectural elements. Without design intervention, a parking garage can detract from the appeal of the building rather than enhance it.
By applying Dedots, the parking façade transforms into a vibrant and expressive surface. The 3D dot system allows the artwork to emerge from the mesh, giving depth and motion to the imagery of birds and trees. The collaborative design with Roan Victor ensures the work resonates locally, making the façade welcoming, recognizable and contextually meaningful.
Dedots is a modular, architectural dot-panel system where colorful 3D “dots” are affixed to steel mesh bases. It supports large-scale graphic imagery while retaining structural performance, UV resistance and durability. In this project it was used to turn the parking facade into a piece of public art—integrating function (screening, enclosure) and aesthetic expression in one system.
Facade
Hospitality
Room divider
Hospitality
Room divider
Public
Railing
Infrastructure
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Railing
Housing