Nov. 30, 2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Randy Dettmer, AIA
Instructor, Architecture Department
805-541-4864
805-459-0806
rdettmer@calpoly.edu
MEDIA ADVISORY: Cal Poly Architecture Students Present 'Discovery Center' Designs
TO: Assignment editors, photo editors, science/technology reporters, education reporters
WHO: Cal Poly 4th-year Architecture Design Studio students
WHAT: Final presentations of student designs for the proposed San Luis Obispo Discovery and Conference Center
WHEN: Monday, Dec. 4, 2-5 p.m.
WHERE: Fishbowl Gallery, Engineering West, Room 105
More information:
The 4th-year design studio has been divided into five teams, each to design the San Luis Obispo Discovery Center facility for the Discovery Institute for the Advancement of Science and Technology Education.
The Discovery Center is a real goal of the Discovery Institute, a Central Coast-based non-profit agency dedicated to the improvement of science, health, and technology education.
Founder and executive director Derrick Lavoie has worked with the students throughout the quarter as the client for the project. Lavoie says the student designs are a first step in solidifying his vision of building a world-class science and technology exhibition center and conference facility in San Luis Obispo.
The students chose the San Luis Obispo Dalidio Ranch as an appropriate site for the Discovery Center project.
The student designs include architectural renderings, physical models, state-of-the-art computer renderings and digital tours of green building architecture, including hands-on exhibits, classrooms, a conference center, an IMAX theater, a planetarium/observatory, an organic research farm, and an organic food restaurant.
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