| The Advanced Media Center aims to serve its community by providing a focus on education, business, commerce, and community gatherings. Potential users could be the Riverside Unified School District, local universities like RCC, UCR, CBU, and La Sierra University, and businesses. Since Riverside is known to be the city of “Arts and Innovation” we are excited to celebrate the cities’ values as well as its people with the central courtyard that invites parties of people into the playfulness of the building. Sitting at the heart of the city of Riverside, the RAMC has a walking score of 90 and a bike score of 75.
The Media center aims to reduce energy usage by providing large amounts of passive solar. This is easily achieved by the central courtyard that transmits light into the spaces where the immersive igloos are not located. Solar panels are mounted to the roof to offset the electrical consumption of the building. Vertical glass louvers are also surrounding the perimeter to reduce the heat gain into the building and provide filtered passive light.
Wellness becomes a large part of this high-tech building type by becoming the core of the building. The core is a large open courtyard that allows for direct views to the outdoors, gathering areas, and vegetation. This courtyard aims to promote the health of the users by targeting their senses by being visually interesting, incorporating the smell of navel oranges, sounds of the gathered community, and immersive touch activities. There are also outdoor patios on the upper two floors with different views of the city.
The flexible program space of the RAMC sets it up for a long life and future innovative uses. The central courtyard is designed to collect large amounts of water all around its perimeter to recover from possible flooding around the city. The RAMC will not only be built with an abundance of recycled materials, but it will also have solar panels to produce energy for itself and possibly surrounding buildings in case of an emergency. Water harvesting technology will also be available on site. |
