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Commercial Design · Architectural Documentation

Medical Office Building — Colton, CA

Location
Colton, CA
Year
Completed 2026
Service Type
Commercial Design · Architectural Documentation
Project Type
24,000 SF Medical Office Building
Medical Office Building — Colton, CA — hero image
Fig. 01 · 24,000 SF Medical Office Building
— Overview
Project Summary

A 24,000 square foot, two-story medical office facility. Long Beach Designers supported the project with architectural and as-built documentation, clear drawing sets for a complex clinical layout, and a detailed physical study model used to understand and communicate how the building's many rooms, corridors, and volumes work together.

01 — The Project

A 24,000 SF medical office, finished and in use.

Medical office in Colton — front elevation with clay tile roof and entry stairs
Exterior · 01Front elevation and main entry
Medical office in Colton — corner view of the two-story stucco building
Exterior · 02Corner view along the drive aisle
02 — Existing Building

Documenting the building accurately before anything else.

Complex facilities start with reliable information. Long Beach Designers documented the existing building and produced the documentation that gives owners, consultants, and contractors one accurate base to work from.

For a medical office with dozens of exam rooms, work areas, and corridors, that documentation is what keeps planning decisions, coordination, and construction grounded in how the building really is.

Facade detail of the medical office — stucco control joints, ribbon windows, and wall lights
Detail · 01Facade detail — control joints, openings, and fixtures
03 — From Plan to Physical Model

From Plan to Physical Model

Understanding space beyond the drawing.

At Long Beach Designers, drawings are only one way of understanding a building. For this project, a detailed physical architectural model was developed to study the building's spatial organization and communicate its layout in three dimensions.

The model translates two-dimensional plans into a tangible representation of the building, allowing relationships between rooms, corridors, openings, circulation paths, and larger building volumes to be understood more intuitively.

For a complex medical environment, this additional layer of visualization helps the design team study spatial relationships from multiple viewpoints and provides a clearer way to communicate how individual spaces work together as part of the larger facility.

01 · Spatial Understanding
Transforms two-dimensional drawings into a physical representation that makes spatial relationships easier to understand.
02 · Design Communication
Provides another way for clients and the design team to discuss layouts, circulation, proportions, and relationships between spaces.
03 · Multiple Perspectives
Allows the building to be studied from above, from the exterior, and at an interior eye-level perspective.
04 · Design Development
Provides a tangible tool for evaluating the organization of the building as the project develops.
Physical foam study model of the medical office showing rooms, corridors, and openings from above
Model · 01Physical Study Model — three-dimensional exploration of the building's spatial organization
Overhead view of the physical foam study model showing the full floor plan of exam rooms and corridors
Model · 02Straight-down plan view — the full building layout read at a glance
Physical foam study model with the upper floor lifted to reveal the ground floor plan
Model · 03Plan + Model — both floors studied together, translating drawings into physical space
Eye-level close-up inside the physical study model looking across the cafeteria group room
Model · 04Eye-level close-up — room scale and openings experienced from within
04 — Inside the Facility

Corridors, work areas, and cabinetry as built.

Staff kitchenette with wood-tone cabinetry and open shelving
Interior · 01Staff kitchenette and storage
Clinical corridor with wood-look flooring and green doors
Interior · 02Clinical corridor and circulation
Work room with wood cabinetry, sink, and utility connections
Interior · 03Work room and utility wall
Scope of Work

What we designed and drafted.

  • 01Architectural documentation
  • 02As-built documentation of the existing building
  • 03Medical office space planning support
  • 04Physical architectural study model
  • 05Design communication and coordination
Deliverables

What the client received.

  • 01Existing conditions / as-built drawings
  • 02Architectural floor plans
  • 03Physical foam study model
  • 04Documentation for design and construction teams
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