Kim
Coleman
Associate Professor, University of Southern California School of Architecture
Associate Professor, University of Southern California School of Architecture
Project Intent Portia Wijatno
By creating a shared green space with classrooms and terraced science gardens, students will have opportunities to use the courtyard or science gardens while circulating on the ramps enclosing the outermost perimeter of the site. These ramps link all the green spaces together and at the same time divide these green spaces into different zones for different types of studies/purposes. The experience of moving along the ramp is thus both educational and informative. Pedestrians are able to see the ceremonial procession of students moving around the science gardens from Serrano Avenue and 6th Street. The last part of the ramp brings the students into the interior, moving along the innermost courtyard before entering into the planetarium.
Co-Use Program
EDUCATORIUM -- a high-tech based educational/entertaining "factory of learning" with four main programs:
1) the planetarium, seating 220 people, symbolizes the end of the students ceremonial procession along the ramps around the science gardens and courtyard; from grade to grade it also marks the beginning of the next stage of their future.
2) the web conferencing cells serve as links between all children in the universe as the students are able to utilize those spaces for student exchange programs with other students from different countries. Businessmen on the urban site can also use those cells to hold meetings with their counterparts in other countries.
3) the internet cafeteria is open 24-hours a day to serve the 24-hour fitness center next door and businessmen who use the cells at late hours with other businessmen in different time zones.
4) the exhibition ramps and spaces are educational and sybolize the passing of time while circulating around the planterium.
EDUCATORIUM -- a high-tech based educational/entertaining "factory of learning" with four main programs:
1) the planetarium, seating 220 people, symbolizes the end of the students ceremonial procession along the ramps around the science gardens and courtyard; from grade to grade it also marks the beginning of the next stage of their future.
2) the web conferencing cells serve as links between all children in the universe as the students are able to utilize those spaces for student exchange programs with other students from different countries. Businessmen on the urban site can also use those cells to hold meetings with their counterparts in other countries.
3) the internet cafeteria is open 24-hours a day to serve the 24-hour fitness center next door and businessmen who use the cells at late hours with other businessmen in different time zones.
4) the exhibition ramps and spaces are educational and sybolize the passing of time while circulating around the planterium.
LAUSD - SITE B2
Serrano & 6th
