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Students starting summer classes at the new and refreshed Guadalupe Center of South Mountain Community College will benefit from a flexible environment designed to accommodate various teaching and learning styles.
The SMCC Guadalupe Center expansion and remodel design is the result of a tireless collaborative effort between the college and the design team.
This seamless expansion not only provides for new classroom space, but also offers a central courtyard that joins new with existing. This courtyard is valued as a new heart for the center -- a place where students and faculty will interact and where learning can extend directly to the outdoors.
Among the many improvements, significant efforts have been made to design flexible classroom environments, according to Guadalupe Center Director Raul Monreal.
Special care has been given to furniture selection for both function and comfort. In some classrooms, movable “pod” style tables will facilitate dynamic group learning, while others provide for a more traditional lecture format. Two classrooms are joined by an operable partition that, when open, becomes a community room for large group gatherings and welcomes use by the greater Guadalupe community.
As a whole, flexible classroom design, improved student support staff spaces, access to technology, visual connections between indoors and outdoors, use of color, shaded outdoor seating, symbolic elements attributed to local culture, and a unique desert landscape palette will all help in making this a welcoming and special learning facility for South Mountain Community College.
Total square feet of the building – existing, remodeled and newly constructed – is almost 10,000 square feet (9,891 exactly). Broken down, that includes: 4,940 square feet of existing building – of which 1,276 are remodeled. New construction totals 4,951 square feet.
INCLUDED ARE:
- Five new classrooms: a non-lab science classroom of 900 square feet; 2 computer classrooms, 680 square feet each; and two general purpose classrooms, 680 square feet each.
- Community room: The community room is comprised of two classrooms with an operable wall separating them. When this wall is open, it becomes the community room. The total square footage of the community room is 1,360 square feet. The maximum occupancy is 68 people.
- Three outdoor zones: The area to the northwest is for eating / dining, the center area serves as a seating or outdoor classroom space, and the east portion provides a patio area flexible for a variety of functions.
- Student Support Services area: remodeled to accommodate an additional support staff workstation, cashier’s office, staff lounge, file / workroom, faculty offices, assessment / tutor center, and a lab technician office.
- Custodian/security office: new construction also provides for relocation of these offices.
General contractor is The S.J. Anderson Co. The design team is made up of Fucello Architects; KPFF, civil engineer;
Logan Simpson Design, Inc., landscape architect.
Structural engineer is Rudow & Berry; mechanical & plumbing engineer: Associated Mechanical Engineers; electrical engineer: Woodwar.
To learn more about the SMCC Guadalupe Center, go to: http://guadalupe.southmountaincc.edu/ or call 602.243.8217.