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AIA|LA Design Awards Tour Series: Edison Language Academy
Date: Monday, June 22nd. 6pm
Edison Language Academy
The Edison Language Academy is a K - 5th grade dual language immersion public school in Santa Monica, which has grown since its founding in 1985. The unique dual immersion program allows children to learn, speak, read and write in both English and Spanish. The campus will be completely reconfigured through a phased construction schedule. The new K-5 building along Virginia Avenue is the first stage, and enables most of the existing buildings to remain in operation throughout the school year.
The 5.5 acre campus is south of the 10 freeway and bordered by Virginia Avenue and Kansas Avenue in Santa Monica. Facilities include 35,000 sf of classrooms and 22,000 sf of administration, a library, and a cafetorium. The school is organized around a series of small and large courtyards that can be used as teaching spaces, for community gatherings, school performances, and snack time. The academic courtyard is the largest of these open spaces and is flanked by two levels of classrooms connected by a series of bridges and landscaped platforms. A running track and field is sited on the southeast portion of the site, furthest from the freeway to provide the healthiest environment for outdoor aerobic activities. Each age group have their own separate play area.
The new school enhances and restores the ecology and the natural environment of the region. A cooler urban condition is created by classroom buildings that are of a higher density and a site planted with more fields, gardens, courtyards, and green roofs. Large glazing systems on a minimum of two surfaces permit natural daylight to offset artificial lighting and reduce internal electrical loads. Air from the courtyard is pulled through the classrooms via operable windows and discharged to the outside as it heats up and moves through solar chimneys that link both levels of the two story classroom building. During the day classrooms are naturally ventilated for cross breeze through spaces to reduce the operating hours of mechanical systems. At night the classrooms are cooled by flushing warm interior air through the flues with cool exterior air. These chimneys are located on the southeast side of the building with openings to the northwest and take advantage of the prevailing winds. Openings into the flue and into the classrooms are controlled via actuators to control the air flow and movement through the classroom. In the winter the air is warmed prior to ventilating the classrooms.
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LocationEdison Language Academy (View)
2402 Virginia Ave
Santa Monica, CA 90404
United States
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| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
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