Live Oaks Career Campus
Cincinnati, Ohio
Live Oaks is a Career Technical Campus built in 1971. This project set out to establish a strong identity and create a professional environment where students feel respected and their passions for chosen career paths could unfold with discovery and wonder.
The existing facility was unwelcoming with a receding, dark entry that posed a security risk. It had no barrier into the school’s circulation and broken site lines for student supervision. The new entry clarifies the entrance with a secure sequence that stops guests at reception before going letting them farther into the building; it creates a welcoming environment that reveals a new perspective from each changing vantage point while maintaining important site lines. The entry lobby is an asymmetrical high/low combined, expansive volume that creates a varied experience, leading visitors into the central “commons.” The second level holds all the core curriculum; the first floor branches into differing “academies” for each field of study. New gathering nodes are dotted throughout the school. The collaborative stair is in the commons, and bench seating and lounge spaces are scattered along circulation paths.
Additional Information
Cost per Sq Ft
$173.00
Featured in
2024 Educational Interiors Showcase
Interior category
Vocational/Industrial Arts Areas
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