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• W312653886 abstract "Timing and Triggering: Clues from Antiquity Barton Phelps The-sis, n. Gk., lowering of the voice; downbeat, the more important part of a poetic foot; the act of laying down. Landscapes are dynamic, and place is about time and activity. Function usually follows form—not the other way around; and time (in its historic, annual, and daily guises) performs a continual, not always harmonically constructive duet with presence. Designers rarely encounter stable, unchanging landscapes in this country. Indeed, it appears such an idea is histori- cally un-American: experimentation and commodification are more powerfully culture-driven ambitions than conserva- tion and permanence. Partly because its development came late and quickly, California is home to a distinct sequence of efforts to respond to this dynamism—to speed up or slow down the rate of change. (Deciding where to come down in the professionally suspect, often moralistic terrain of time is a fundamental problem of architectural and planning activ- ity. And what we are thinking as we go about this and what we report to clients are not necessarily the same thing.) Let’s call it timing. An experiment in timing is under- way at Thacher School in the hot, dry foothills of the Santa Ynez Mountains near Ojai. Founded on a former cattle ranch by a Yale-educated newcomer in 1889, Thacher provided an early societal link between California and elite institutions of East Coast higher education. Nowadays, it’s a diverse, Opposite: Campus plan of Thacher School showing site of Arts Building and Commons (AB/C). The school’s setting is dominated by vistas to surrounding mountains (inset). Images courtesy of Thacher School. coed boarding school. Yet even if its curriculum is no longer based on the Classics, it still undertakes an update of Sherman Thacher’s broadly inclu- sive educational initiative, combining academic achievement with objectives in self-reliance, teamwork, and envi- ronmental awareness. The 240 high school-age students at Thacher live a rugged, outdoor life, shaped by the Ojai Valley and the daily ranch labor they perform. Their 400- acre campus (also home to 60 faculty and 140 horses) drops 200 feet in 1,200 feet from east to west, making for steep climbs and long, elevated views on the way to anywhere. Part grid, part contour-tracing ramble, its layout, and daily life itself, take focus at a shady central terrace called “The Pergola.” In 2001, the decision by the school’s trustees to construct a new performing arts building and a student commons (the largest project in school history) on this central space raised a range of questions about space and time—as well as the designers’ ability to get it right. Bordering hallowed space unchanged for a half century, the Commons building would be the school’s first to fully recognize coeducation in its design, and the Arts Building would give new importance to creative activ- ity. The siting that we ultimately settled upon, however, intervened forcefully in a spatial composition evolved over five or six generations. Our design aimed to show that architectural “progress” is not a Zeit- geist constant, and that the conscious choice of where to come down in architectural time is critically impor- tant to supporting social progress in every community. We started by trying to be useful, helping other people to collect and orga- nize their thoughts for a project whose name was soon shortened to AB/C. Building with Gerunds Engaging: Two programs totaling 24,000 sq.ft. in an integrated compo- sition anchored to the Pergola estab- lish movement patterns that clarify campus orientation, provide new, precisely oriented view lines, and heighten awareness of the setting. Double-functioning: Operations overlap to avoid redundancy and link activities. In addition to casual spaces for student, faculty, alumni and con- ference use, the Commons provides lobby/reception/rest room facilities for events in either building. Lower- level music practice rooms are close to the stage/rehearsal rooms across the court. Linking/Encountering: Circulation is concentrated in a skylit central corridor linking Pergola and Arts Building, interpreted as a Parisian shopping arcade with a cafe and a school store display window. A socio- petal space, it banks on function, loca- tion, and daily visits to the mail room at its center to encourage social inter- action. The space doubles as a gallery for the display of student work and traveling exhibitions. The tackboard “Toad” (school mascot) offers addi- tional space for pin-up, Internet access, and vending machines. Testing Regionalism/Elevating Per- formance: Orientation, daylight pen- etration, roof overhangs/sun shades, foundation/structural design, natural ventilation/limited HVAC systems, and material selection all reflect a balance between construction cost and life-cycle performance. In terms of texture, fieldstone, boulders (from the excavation), concrete, and metal siding predominate. Metal roofing replaces heavy tile, diminishing the seismic load its use created in earlier buildings. Phelps / Timing and Triggering" @default.
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