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Charles Marr

Charles Marr

Santa Rosa, CA, US

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Proposed Campus Gateway Building/ Community Advancement Center
Proposed Campus Gateway Building/ Community Advancement Center
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"Classroom of The Future" 2009, Design Competition

Sponsor:  Architecture for Humanity
Architect/ Project Designer:  Charles Marr
School Partner:  Environmental Charter High School, Classroom Partner:  Spaces of Blight

Program:
One, to integrate Environmental Charter High School (ECHS) into the community.

Two, to provide a laboratory classroom and other classrooms to enhance a collaborative and hands on environmental education curriculum.

Three, a project that is itself a “learning aid” modeling sustainable design to both students and the community.

Concept:
A “Community Advancement Center” designed to engage the community and youth about ECHS’s public outreach projects, environmental education, and generate income  for the school.

A tree house laboratory classroom named “The Birdhouse” designed to educate students and the community through their experience of a reclaimed urban wildlife habitat on an adjacent existing vacant lot.

To  enhance a collaborative and hands on environmental education curriculum with eight prefabricated modular classrooms sited to encourage collaboration and designed to embrace nature with outdoor classrooms oriented towards the habitat of “The Birdhouse.”

Conclusion:

The classroom of the future is a tree house on an urban reclaimed forest.

 
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Status: Competition Entry
Location: Hawthorne, CA, US

 
Process Board 1
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Process Board 4
Location Vicinity Map
Location Vicinity Map
Existing School Site
Existing School Site
Concept Sketch 1
Concept Sketch 1
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Concept Sketch 2
Concept Sketch 3
Concept Sketch 3
Site Study Model
Site Study Model
Early Concept Study
Early Concept Study
Modular Classroom Concept Study 2
Modular Classroom Concept Study 2
Modular Classroom Concept Study 1
Modular Classroom Concept Study 1
Proposed Site Plan
Proposed Site Plan
Proposed First Level Plan
Proposed First Level Plan
Proposed Second Level Plan
Proposed Second Level Plan
Proposed Site South Elevation
Proposed Site South Elevation
Proposed Site North Elevation
Proposed Site North Elevation
Proposed Project North Elevation
Proposed Project North Elevation
Proposed Project South Elevation
Proposed Project South Elevation
Proposed Site Section
Proposed Site Section
Proposed Labratory Tree House
Proposed Labratory Tree House