Cuyamaca College Business/Computer Information Systems Building
Rancho San Diego, California
The 46,000-sq.ft., two-story Business/Computer Information Systems (BCIS) Building houses computer laboratories, classrooms, a 120-seat independent learning computer laboratory, offices, and other support functions for the academic division.
The design reflects the contextual bold curved shapes of the campus, and using them celebrates the main building entries and its connection to the site. All spaces have access to natural daylight, however, limiting it to clerestory windows for the computer lab preferences. One elevation of the building is fully faced in slate resembling a section of cut earth.
The building also responds to an existing hill by being placed into the slope to capture views to the main campus quad and to reduce the profile of the building against the surrounding hills. Nestling the building into the slope allows for various exterior spaces. A plaza at the bottom level becomes a transitional space to the grand campus quad, and an upper terrace provides a location for student functions and events that becomes a passage way to the upper campus.
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