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De Anza College | Media & Learning Center

The Media & Learning Center provides a modern, technology-enhanced space for teaching and learning on the De Anza College campus. The two-story building contains classrooms, laboratories, a media studio, and spaces for distance learning and staff development. Organized around a sky-lit atrium, the building integrates gathering spaces and circulation, creating converging crossroads where spontaneous encounters can take place. A modular planning approach ensures the flexibility to adapt the building to future changes in use and technology, and universal classroom modules can be easily reconfigured to accommodate seminar, lecture, or small group settings. Classrooms that accomodate 40-50 seats can also be combined to create larger spaces for lectures of 80-100 students. Our team also performed a feasibility study to develop alternate site planning options to the original master plan. Based on our recommendations, the decision was made to realign the existing loop road and turn the building 90 degrees to an east-west axis. This placed the Media & Learning Center in an optimum solar orientation, maximizing the building perimeter for day lighting and harvesting solar energy. The new road alignment demarcated a larger building site, allowing the opportunity to create a new campus quad with outdoor teaching and learning spaces and a landscaped gathering area for social interaction.The project is LEED Platinum certified.

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De Anza College | Media & Learning Center

The Media & Learning Center provides a modern, technology-enhanced space for teaching and learning on the De Anza College campus. The two-story building contains classrooms, laboratories, a media studio, and spaces for distance learning and staff development. Organized around a sky-lit atrium, the building integrates gathering spaces and circulation, creating converging crossroads where spontaneous encounters can take place. A modular planning approach ensures the flexibility to adapt the building to future changes in use and technology, and universal classroom modules can be easily reconfigured to accommodate seminar, lecture, or small group settings. Classrooms that accomodate 40-50 seats can also be combined to create larger spaces for lectures of 80-100 students. Our team also performed a feasibility study to develop alternate site planning options to the original master plan. Based on our recommendations, the decision was made to realign the existing loop road and turn the building 90 degrees to an east-west axis. This placed the Media & Learning Center in an optimum solar orientation, maximizing the building perimeter for day lighting and harvesting solar energy. The new road alignment demarcated a larger building site, allowing the opportunity to create a new campus quad with outdoor teaching and learning spaces and a landscaped gathering area for social interaction.The project is LEED Platinum certified.

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