Outdoor Classroom Orange 1
Outdoor Classroom Orange 1
Design-Build Studio
ARCHITECTS
Design-build Studio
PHOTOGRAPHS
Matt Winquist, Design-build Studio
ARCHITECTURAL LICENSE
Michael Groves
TEACHERS IN CHARGE
Felipe Mesa, Catherine Spellman
PROJECT SPONSOR
Edmundo Soltero
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
David Grapsas
ELECTRICAL ENGINEER
Affiliated Engineers
GENERAL BUILDER
Core Construction
STUDENTS
Mhamad Ali Alaaeddine, Carlee Allen, Nicholas Becerra, Yasmin Ben Abdelkader, Rigoberto Berber-arias, Ian Clouse, Tyree Dalgai, Alan Estrada, Cristina Garibay, Connor Glass, Rafael Gonzalez, Brandon Grenda, Jacob Jones, Ryan Mackay, Rita Momika, Joshua Odwyer, Justin Palmer, Solana Pearson, Alexis Santana, Annie Torgersen, Megan Van Horn, Mariel Vogliotti, Mckenzi Wilson, Yiming Xu, Sarah Zagoury, Tirrel Dandrige, Christopher Fernandez, Tiffany Hartono, Smriti Jain, Vaishali Kalra, Yanela Nunez, Vishaka Tuljapurkar
PROJECTS MANAGEMENT
Asu Facilities Development Management, Capital Programs Management Group
AREA
1292 Ft²
YEAR
2021
CATEGORY
Classrooms
LOCATION
Mesa, United States
Text description provided by architect.
In our Design-Build Studio / Spring 2021, we understood improvisation as the erratic and collaborative process that a group of two professors, thirty-three students, and a diverse team of consultants carried out to make the "Orange 1" project a reality.
This small-format building, located on the University campus, will function as an outdoor classroom for educational and leisure activities during Covid-19 and beyond.
It is an excellent example to understand improvisation as an activity always linked and in tension with the constraints:
the client, the budget, and some technical limitations imposed various relevant aspects of the project.
These include such aspects as the methods of construction, participation of students and faculty, general shape, size, material, color, and primary program.
With these constraints in mind, our team made decisions about the design of the building including the variation of the façades, the spacing of screen members, and the geometry of the roofs and columns.
The resulting project is a permeable building, resistant and adapted to the climatic conditions of the desert, and open to multiple uses.