LANDSCAPE MASTER PLAN AND DESIGN GUIDELINES - JULY 2021
PROJECTS UNDER CONSTRUCTION LANDSCAPE + NURSERY TECHNOLOGY (LNT)
FACILITIES, OPERATIONS, MAINTENANCE +GROUNDS
PERFORMING ARTS + CULTURAL CENTER (PACC)
The South Bay Botanic Garden at Southwestern College’s Landscape and Nursery Technology (LTN) is the epicentre of teaching and learning about the region’s landscapes. The 3.76-acre site supports students in the fields of Horticulture, Landscape Architecture, Landscape Trades, Sustainable Landscape Practices, Floral Design, Gulf and Turf Sports (design and maintenance), and other Nursery Occupations. The Botanic Garden and the LNT classroom buildings include a net-zero Learning Technology Center, greenhouses, and maintenance buildings that provide teaching spaces, outdoor classrooms and laboratories, community gardens, nursery display and sales areas, and event spaces. These areas include universal access, reinforce the teaching and learning opportunities, both indoor and outdoor, and provide educational opportunities to highlight sustainable design.
The project currently under construction is located on approximately 5.75 acres at the southern edge of Southwestern College main campus in Chula Vista, CA. The project replaces older, temporary buildings with a new compound consisting of five buildings well as large truck loading docks and vehicle parking. Because it sits at the edge of campus, perimeter landscaping for the project includes native chaparral plants with temporary plant establishment irrigation supplied primarily from a rainwater catch basin.
The new, Performing Arts and Cultural Center (PACC) is a multi-purpose, educational complex that will house community and public events, gatherings for cultural celebrations, as well as school activities. With 48,576 square feet of gross floor area, it contains classrooms designed for dance instruction, lecture halls, theater lab classrooms, stage prop and stage construction spaces, and two theaters for events and performances. The site and landscape will complement the adjacent Wellness and Aquatic Complex with modern pedestrian paving, seating, landscape boulders and cobble surfacing, shade and flowering trees and water wise plantings. An entry plaza at the main entrance is designed and poised for large events and an outdoor amphitheater at the south side of the building will hold smaller events.
Performing Arts + Cultural Center under construction.
106
SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE
