Complete an urban design in Columbus, Ohio to connect/transition two areas. The site is on North High street between Short North (5th Ave) and South Campus Gateway (9th Ave). I want the urban design to mend the missing link between Short North and South Campus. This will be done by incorporating ideas and features from those two areas into my site. Green design strategies and green spaces will also play a large role in my design techniques in an effort to entice people to want to be in this area. As opposed to its current features which do no good in drawing and keeping people in the site. The buildings on the site would be only designed externally, maybe slight internal design will be done to express its purpose but nothing very detailed. Except for one building.
I want to design one building on the site that is a intended to be an after school learning center for students, elementary to high school level. This learning center would be run by volunteers from the community and students from Ohio State University. The intent of the learning center is to give kids a safe and rewarding place for activities. The premise of the center would be about green design implementation, research and testing. I envision this place as being a hands-on learning facility where new green design ideas can be found and studies and experiments can be done and shared with the community to spread knowledge and enhance the Columbus Green Strategies.
The reason for this building ties in with the heavy emphasis on green building and green techniques that are being implemented in Columbus. I appreciate the attempt to go green but I don't feel it is being done in such a way that the people of Columbus know what is going on or have the ability to learn about it. That's where the learning center will come in. It is intended for elementary-high school children since they are the future of the community and will be impacted the greatest by the choices that we are all making now, whether they be good or bad.
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