Open and Connected

摘要

Opened in January 2011, the $19.5 million, 49,000-square-foot Student Fitness Center at Everett Community College in Everett, Wash., is LEED Gold certified. Designed by SRG Partnership Inc., Seattle, the project is defined by its open and airy concept. "We wanted to create an open, visually and acoustically connected space that allows the sights and sounds of sports activities to resonate throughout the building," explains Stan Jaworowski, AIA, LEED AP, senior associate with SRG Partnership. "This sense of openness was promoted in several ways. Gym walls go only as high as required by programmatic needs and it opens to double-high circulation lobbies on interior sides, permitting sightlines to extend from one corner of the building to another."