Rendering of the Gonzales Family Community Hall with an angled roof, glass-walled interior, and a flowering vine-covered accent wall, surrounded by red and green landscaping, with visitors including a wheelchair user gathered on the walkway outside.

Gonzales, California

Gonzales Community Center

Bilingual Voices, Unified Vision

Project type

Donor Recognition Signage Design Wayfinding Signage Design

Project sector

Civic Design Cultural Design
Rendering of the Rubbo Pura Family Amphitheater at the Gonzales Family Community Center, a grassy sloped lawn beside a modern community building, with families relaxing, watching a performance, and playing with a dog on the grass.

Project info

Client WRNS Studio

Designed for health, honoring community

RSM Design partnered with WRNS Studio to create the signage program and donor recognition for the Gonzales Community Center. The City of Gonzales is located in the Central Valley of California with the unique honor of being chosen as one of five from nearly 200 communities for the National Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 2019 Culture of Health Prize. This honor is given to communities who pursue innovative ideas and bringing partners together to rally around a shared vision of health. The community has pursued this through youth engagement, economic development, health care access and sustainability. The signage design and donor recognition harmoniously works with the architectural vision of the center through modern design utilizing honest materials. The signs were executed with bilingual applications to communicate with the community’s primary and secondary languages.

Rendering of a stone monument wall reading 'Dennis & Janice Caprara Community Center Complex,' framed by tall ornamental grasses and trees, with two blurred people walking and biking past on the sidewalk.
Close-up angled view of dimensional black letters reading 'Dennis & Ja...' mounted on a textured concrete block wall, with ornamental grasses partially visible in the foreground.
Close-up angled view of the corner edge of a textured concrete monument sign reading 'Center Complex' in black dimensional letters, surrounded by dense green foliage
Donor recognition wall for the Dennis & Janice Caprara Community Center Complex, made of geometric wood and white circular, triangular, and rectangular tiles engraved with individual donor names and the words Love, Care, and Connect, as a man walks past.
Bilingual wall sign reading 'Teen Lounge' and 'Salón para Adolescentes' with braille text, mounted on a wood-edged white panel
Close-up detail of the geometric wood and white donor wall, showing individual tiles engraved with names including The Carter Family, Laura Foster, Tom & Mary Gutierrez, Collin Parker, and Emily Bailey.

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