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1) Samueli Academy School for Foster Youth School
Learning Objectives:
Describe the design of the various learning spaces included in the OC School of the Arts project, including class- rooms, science labs, culinary arts commercial teaching kitchen and performance facilities.
Discuss how the program spaces at OC School of the arts have supported the curriculum to make the school one of the premier arts schools in the nations.
Identify the sustainable design features of the Sameueli Academy project.
Illustrate the ways in which the design team created a “live and learn” urban village within the Academy campus.
2) Orange County School of the Arts (OCSA) School
Originally, this arts program began in 1983 as Los Al Players, a summer musical theatre camp for ages 4 – 16 f ounded by Terry Bigelow, Jean Parks, and Ralph Opacic in Los Alamitos, CA. Los Al Players grew into the Orange County High School of the Arts (OCHSA) in 1987 and reorganized as a public charter school on April 20, 2000. During that time the school was relocated from its primary facility at Los Alamitos High School to the Santa Ana Unified School District. In the summer of 2012, the name of the school was changed from OCHSA (Orange County High School of the Arts) to OCSA (Orange County School of the Arts). OCSA is a tuition-free, donation-dependent public charter school governed by a board of trustees representing parents, the community, educators and the Santa Ana Unified School District.
OCSA’s campus consists of a seven-story office tower, which was formerly a bank and four surrounding buildings, the Annex, the Tech Building, Symphony Hall, the Visual Arts Center, The Margaret A. Webb Theater, and the new Dance Music Science center. The main tower’s bank vault is still in use as a teacher work area and occasionally as an octagonal theater.
OCSA has two on-campus venues. Symphony Hall is a theater, which holds most of the school’s medium
to larger performances and was originally a historic Church of Christian Science, (built in 1922) before
being converted to a theater. The hall contains a theater, a side rehearsal room, separate practice rooms for instrumental musicians, a basement and library for the creative writers, a front of house audio booth with a Behringer X32 digital sound console, and a balcony overlooking the auditorium for the Production and Design students. This balcony houses an ETC lighting booth using the ION console and 2 Source Four follow spots.