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COLLECTION NAME:
Archivision Base to Module 9
Record
Preferred Title:
Santa Monica College Campus Quad [landscape architecture]
Image View:
Theater Arts Building with xeriscaping in front
Creator:
Lauren Meléndrez (American landscape architect, born 1952)
Location:
site: Santa Monica College (Santa Monica, California, United States)
Location Note:
1900 Pico Blvd.
GPS:
+34.017149-118.470779
Date:
completed 2008 (creation)
Cultural Context:
American
Style Period:
Twenty-first century
Work Type 1:
xeriscape
Work Type 2:
quadrangle (open space)
Classification:
landscape architecture
Material:
concrete; brick; plant materials
Technique:
construction (assembling); gardening
Description:
Santa Monica College is a two-year, public, junior college first opened in 1929 as Santa Monica Junior College. Current enrollment is over 30,000 students. Meléndrez led the design effort as part of a diverse consultant team that was selected to create a new campus quad for Santa Monica College's 41-acre main campus. The main promenade around the quad is called the boardwalk and is lined with palm trees. The design integrates a porous, below-grade system, which will capture approximately 75% of the campus' stormwater run-off, and allow it to percolate into the groundwater system. The quad seamlessly integrates and ties together both existing buildings and four new buildings (a new theater and performing arts space, new library and humanities building). (Source: Meléndrez [landscape architects website]; http://www.melendrez.com/)
Collection:
Archivision Addition Module Seven
Identifier:
1A1-BPA-SMCC-A8
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

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