建筑师: Brooks + Scarpa Architects
位置: Los Angeles County, California, USA
主要负责人: Lawrence Scarpa, FAIA
项目建筑师: Angela Brooks, AIA, Mark Buckland, Ching Luk
项目设计团队: Brad Buter, Silke Clemens, Emily Hodgdon, Gwynne Pugh, Sri Sumantri
工程师: Thorton Thomassetti-Structural
面积: 53,500 sq ft
年份: 2013
摄像: John Linden

这个新的有着500名学生的公立学校坐落在南拉斯维加斯附近，几乎直接与去向LAX的航线相连，毗邻繁忙的105高速公路。其设计受到了新奥尔良建筑师Curtis和Davis的影响，50年代早期他们在路易斯安那设计并建造了非常多的学校。他们的设计适应于恶劣的南部天气，在不使用空调的情况下有着良好的体验。他们创造了可供孩子们学习的充足而持续的光照和诗意的空间。

This new public school for 500 students is located in a tough South Los Angeles neighborhood almost directly under the flight path into LAX and adjacent to the very busy 105 Century freeway. The design was influenced by the New Orleans architects Curtis and Davis who designed and built many schools in the early 1950s in Louisiana. Their designs adapted to the harsh southern climate without using air conditioning, creating sustainable light filled and poetic spaces for kids to learn.

同样的，这个项目设计为促进被动的可持续发展战略。它拥有大量的自然光、通风、良好的视野，考虑到了建筑阴影和通风可能带来的问题。建筑南立面由650块太阳能面板覆盖，提供了整个学校75%的能源需求。这些战略的生效使得碳排放量减少了3,000,000磅。

Similarly, this project is designed to enhance passive sustainable strategies. It allows for abundant natural light, ventilation and view, while shading itself and inducing airflow. The south facade is clad with 650 solar panels that shade the building and provides 75% of the energy needs for the school. Implementing these strategies will reduce carbon emissions by over 3 million pounds.

该项目的目标是CHPS或者LEED的认可，最小限度能源使用、可持续发展和美学上都有期望。成本效益在每个设计讨论中都被考虑到了。最大化利用该区域的温带气候，设计者基于基本使用的角度避开了通俗的大盒子形式的学校设计方法。用来替代的是一个拥有多功能的“小白”景观庭院，阶梯式排布在室外，被门庭和多重散步道所包围。这使得学校成为一个大学校园，并且提供重要有利的环境，改善了日光照和室内外的新鲜空气，同时也提供了非常重要的节约，因为它限制了人造光和防止小的密闭环境中温度过高。

With a project target of CHPS and/or LEED Certification at the minimum, aesthetics, sustainability, and cost-effectiveness were considered in every design decision. Taking full advantage of the region’s temperate climate, the designers eschewed the fully contained “big box” idiom of conventional schools on the primary use site. Instead, a landscaped courtyard with multifunctional “bleacher” terracing flows into the open-air covered lobby and the multilayered paseo, lending the school the appeal of a collegiate campus and offering significant environmental benefits—improving daylighting and access to fresh air both inside and out—while providing substantial cost savings by limiting artificial lighting and thermal conditioning to the smaller enclosed spaces.

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