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Uniquely Educational By Design
We designed this $12 million water treatment facility project, sited in a residential community with a park immediately adjacent and a school nearby, with the surrounding community at the plan's core. We sought to make an important public educational tool out of this 83,000 square foot complex.
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Take what could be considered a dauntingly large industrial project and transform it into an open, dynamic dialogue between the facility and its users |
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| Project Successes Achieved Through Design |
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A major element of the design intent was for the school children and the people of the community passing by to gain a quick, fundamental understanding of how their water system works and how it is integrated into their lives |
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The design therefore included graphic communication panels alongside the exterior of the building, color-coded to correspond with tanks, machinery and other processing elements within the facility to illustrate how the water treatment process takes place |
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The exterior of the complex was glazed so the community would have a transparent view of the process within the building, and this community educational component was continued within the building |
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