Dome

Walkways, lighting, bike racks and brick wall uniting materials in surrounding buildings; Santa Monica College is a two-year, public, junior college first opened in 1929 as Santa Monica Junior College. Current enrollment is over 30,000 students. Meléndrez led the design effort as part of a diverse consultant team that was selected to create a new campus quad for Santa Monica College’s 41-acre main campus. The main promenade around the quad is called the boardwalk and is lined with palm trees. The design integrates a porous, below-grade system, which will capture approximately 75% of the campus' stormwater run-off, and allow it to percolate into the groundwater system. The quad seamlessly integrates and ties together both existing buildings and four new buildings (a new theater and performing arts space, new library and humanities building). Source: Meléndrez [landscape architects website]; http://www.melendrez.com/ (accessed 7/13/2012)