*아리조나 컬리지 [ SmithGroupJJR ] Central Arizona College

새롭게 조성되는 캠퍼스는 아리조나 컬리지센터의 유니크하며 아이텐티한

캐릭터 창출과 교육 프로그램을 수행하는 지속가능한 건축의 프로토타입 완성을

목적으로 계획된다. 이러한 계획은 장기안으로 추진되는 마스터플랜의

시작점으로 최근에 완공된 3개의 건축물 또한 이러한 계획선상에서 진행된다.

로컬지역의 문화적 유산과 농업의 역사적 산물을 근간으로 디자인되는

3개의 건축물은 작렬하는 아리조나의 태양으로 부터 내부공간을

보호하기 위하여 깊은 처마를 형성하며 내외부 공간의 흐름을 자연스럽게

연결, 유지시킨다. 이러한 바탕에는 단순한 형태로 폴딩된 코르텐강 루프의

특성으로 부터 기인한다.

지속가능한 건축적 측면에서의 재료는 별도의 유지관리 없이

반영구적으로 사용 할 수 있는 지속성과 사막의 컨텍스트로 부터

추출한 재료의 물성은 캠퍼스의 고유한 캐릭터를 구축하는

중요한 디자인 요소로 적용된다.

reviewed by SJ

This new ground up campus aims to create a unique and authentic identity for the growing Central Arizona College and to elevate its brand in the higher education marketplace while creating a highly sustainable prototype. Masterplanned for significant growth in the next twenty years, three buildings and a central plant represent an initial phase that will create a campus design language for future development to follow.

---

Architects: SmithGroupJJR
Location: Maricopa, Arizona, USA
Design Director: Mark Kranz
Project Manager: Eddie Garcia
Project Architect: Joshua Vacca
Designer: Justin Trexler, Carrie Perrone
Photographs: Liam Frederick, Bill Timmerman

Interior Designer: Willa Lagoyda, Linda Salzmann

The three building campus is conceptually rooted in its historic agricultural roots and Native American legacy. Structures are conceived as a series of honest, spare and no maintenance ‘academic sheds.’ Deep overhangs let interior academic spaces flow outdoors seamlessly. Corten steel and rammed earth create the primary exterior language eliminating the need for long term maintenance. Unpainted structural steel and galvanized acoustical decking create the main interior volumes, while continuous north facing clerestory glazing harvests daylight, coupled with numerous large ‘daylight scoops.’

The main campus entry acts as a beacon for the community, promoting education and community based activities. A new campus language is born out of its unique desert context, a model for the campus of the future. Large frosted glass shade fins are designed to completely protect the building envelope at the summer solstice, while allowing views to the mountains beyond for both the library and the community room. Reaching out to the community and gesturally inviting the community in, the library and community rooms frame the campus entry with two iconic desert campus portals.

Each building strategically turns its back to the harsh desert southern sun, while harvesting northern daylight and creating a continuous shaded arcade on the south that connects the campus’ classrooms end to end. Rolling barn doors and minimal wall partitions organize interior volumes that are planned to be modular and easily removable when expansion and renovation occur in the future.

Four large light scoops flood the main student corridor with daylight in the instructional building, also aiding in ‘rural way finding’ for the one story campus that is still ‘out in the middle of nowhere.’

from  archdaily