Riverside Metro
Honda & Nissan Dealerships
Showroom and Parking Structure
Riverside, California
267,000 total square feet
Nissan Dealership
18,200 sf showroom, parts & office
21,300 sf service
Honda Dealership
22,500 sf showroom, parts, & office
31,000 sf service
105,000 sf parking (levels 2 and 3)
This project is unique in that it combines 2 auto dealerships, Honda and Nissan, into one facility. Each dealer has separate showrooms and service areas on the ground floor separated by individual service drive aisles for the facilities centered between the 2 showrooms. 2 levels of shared parking occur above the service and drive aisles.
The structural design was complicated by one manufacturer's corporate requirement that their building be separate from their competitor even though they shared storage parking and ramp access to this parking. To meet this requirement, an expansion joint was added that split the building along the drive aisle. This joint required careful layout of the building framing to maintain parking access and efficiency as well as coordination of the post-tensioning layout and the concrete pour and stressing sequences.
The service and parking areas are framed with post-tensioned concrete slabs and concrete block perimeter walls that also serve as the building shear walls. The showrooms, parts, and mezzanine level office areas are framed in structural steel. A common CMU wall separates the showroom from the service and garage areas. Steel moment frames along with the common CMU wall resist seismic loads in the showrooms.