Terranea Resort

Rancho Palos Verdes, CA

PACE designed aquatic components for the five-star Terranea Resort project, including hotel pools, interactive splash pad, Pacifica Club, Spa Club, and golf course. The hotel pools consist of one 4,500-square-foot freeform pool, one slide pool with a 120-foot by 20-foot slide, two 200-square-foot spas, and one interactive waterplay fountain with 25 jets and color-changing lights with a fogging effect. The Pacifica Club design includes a 960-square-foot two-lane lap pool. The Spa Club has two hot tubs, two cold plunge pools, and one 1,940-square-foot lap pool with three lanes for swimming. The golf course features two golf course irrigation / stormwater quality lakes totaling 1.5 acres. PACE also provided the design components for the resort expansion, which included a 1,681-square-foot swimming pool and a 112-square-foot spa with spa emitters to add to the resort ambiance.

PACE designed a 21-foot-diameter circular interactive splash fountain with 17 water nozzles and color changing light-emitting diode (LED) lights for each nozzle. The fountain nozzles and LED lights are controlled individually by sequenced programmable logic controllers (PLCs). The jet display height varies from 0 to 7 feet in height by use of a variable frequency drive (VFD) motor for the recirculation pumps. PACE also designed a surge tank, which is required for proper water treatment for user safety. The tank was divided into two compartments, one that receives surface water from the fountain area and one that receives filtered water from filtration system, to accommodate local Health Department requirements. The flow rate for each nozzle is 9 gallons per minute, and the velocity of water out of the nozzle is less than 20 feet per second for the safety of the users. The fountain equipment includes a 5-horsepower water jet pump coupled with an additional cartridge filter to ensure water quality from the nozzles, one sand filter with a 1-horsepower filter pump, an automatic chlorine monitoring and dosing controller, chlorine feeder, and pH adjustment system. All of the fountain and pool equipment is installed in a main building.

Key Features:

• Hotel Pools:
  • One 4,290-square-foot freeform pool
  • One 315-square-foot slide pool with a 120’ x 20’ slide
  • Two 170-square-foot spas
  • One interactive waterplay fountain with 17 jets
• Pacifica Club:
  • One 16’ x 60’ two-lane lap pool at 960 square feet
• Spa Club:
  • One 24’ x 75’ three-lane lap pool at 1,940 square foot pool
  • Two 85-square-foot hot tubs
  • Two 30-square-foot cold plunge pools
• Two golf course irrigation / stormwater quality lakes totaling 1.5 acres
• Resort Expansion:
  • One 1,681-square-foot swimming pool
  • One 112-square-foot spa with emitters