GLENDALE COMMUNITY COLLEGE ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER

This design is for an arts, architecture, and technology building for Glendale Community College. I believe that accessibility to all materials and class is one of the most important things about a college or school in general.

One of the ways the building addresses the site is the openings throughout the building. There are four total, three on the first floor, one on the second. The concept behind this was to have people trickle into the building depending on what class they needed to go to. All facing south, they accommodate students who will mainly be coming from the south side of campus. This angled opening is seen again as the roof. These sawtooth skylights face true north, so a soft light enters the different studio rooms. These angled roofs almost mimic the nature of the surrounding topography and slopes.

The program for this building consists of studio rooms for the arts, architecture, engineering, and technology students. In addition, it has its supplemental workshop rooms such as a woodshop or metal shop, as well as seminar rooms for lecture style classes.

This comes out to be a formal, non hierarchical building, as seen from the outside patterning reflecting onto the inside. However, the subtle shifts and spaces created in the inbetween space make the mostly formal building a warm, inviting environment.