Design Tour: Bishop O’Dowd High School

Saturday, May 19, 2018
10-11:30am
$5 Members / $10 Nonmembers
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1.5 CES LUs

Interested in seeing an educational building set in an ecological restoration of a once abandoned hillside? Susi Marzuola, AIA of Siegel & Strain Architects leads a tour of this Zero Net Energy site. Bishop O’Dowd Center for Environmental Studies was the 2017 AIA East Bay COTE Sustainable Design Honorable Mention winner.

The Center for Environmental Studies (CES) at Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland serves the school’s environmental science curriculum while offering learning and gathering spaces for the campus community.The building’s two large laboratory classrooms expand onto a generous covered patio – a third classroom – overlooking the Living Lab, Oakland and the Bay.

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