Studio 3:15 Career Technical Education Pathways Program

Design Team
Corcoran Unified School District: Rich Merlo (Superintendent), Pamela Dihel (Chief Business Officer), Lora Cartwright (Director of Educational Services), Steve Berry (Director of Technology), Alisa Gomez (CTE Coach), Charles Hache (Video Gaming Teacher); Mangini Associates, Inc.: Chris D. McLain (Managing Principal Architect), Gilbert M. Bareng (Principal Architect); Micham Inc. (General Contractor): Steve Tindle (Vice President), Jerry Riggins (Project Manager); D&D Integrated Solutions: Dean Smith (CEO, Interior Project Manager), Christy Miller (Designer/Furnishings); Wa Vang, Lane Engineering, Inc. (Civil); Robert Boro (Landscape Architect); Jack Brewer, Advanced Structural Design Inc. (Structural); Ryan Carlson, Lawrence Engineering Group (Mechanical); Theodore Rose, Rose Sing and Associates, Inc. (Electrical); Sonja Sorrick (Workplace Consultant/Lead Interior Designer)

Studio 3:15 was designed for Corcoran High School’s emerging Games & Simulations pathway program to engage learners in the information communications and technology sector.

This wood frame building consists of two traditional classrooms, four large collaborative spaces, a large meeting room, an acoustically treated sound room inspired by Minecraft, and an administrative space with a small meeting area. When used for instruction, this facility can house up to 326 students, but when the collaborative space’s operable partitions are removed, these rooms are transformed into one large assembly space capable of holding up to 673 occupants.

Two large glazed bi-fold doors provide a visual and physical connection between this assembly space and an adjacent student quad, and open the new building to the rest of the existing campus. The student quad’s design was inspired by the facility’s program of Games & Simulations and is a callback to the popular game of Tetris. This design concept provides a playful series of walkways, planters, shade structures, and raised concrete benches meant to encourage exploration and creativity beyond the walls of the classroom.

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