南加州大学新校舍传统与高科技的结合

南加大投入6.5亿美元建造新的校舍，将迎接2017年秋季入学的2700名本科生的入住。这里有宽敞的走廊、洒满阳光的广场、别致的小庭院和宫殿式的建筑，也有配置数字技术的房间，如动作感应电灯开关和可控恒温器等。这样的传统与现代的结合，堪称新时代的点石成金术。宿舍全部为套间，分18个不同的单元类型（单人间、双人间、带一个独卫的四人间以及带两个独卫的八人间），共2700个床位。

灵活性灵活性是设计的重中之重：大堂、休息室和合作讨论室都必须提供演讲设备、传统小组学习场地、网络多媒体等；模块化设计的家具不仅可以轻松的重新配置，还能反复使用。信息技术方面，平板显示器能与各种数字设备相连接，大楼内无线网络、高速以太网和插座设施齐全。房间内还有针对残疾学生的专门设计，如钢筋扶手杆、闪光灯门铃或低入式浴缸等。经久耐用
通常学生宿舍楼使用寿命在25到30年不等，然而南加州大学新校舍能使用100年。每个单元都配备基础的内置电器：煤气灶、微波炉、电冰箱、42寸平板电视。整个套间采用复合地板，防刮、防变形、防火，同时还隔音。卧室的家具需要既坚固又灵活，因为学生喜欢把东西搬来搬去。马什（Marsh）希望漆墙工作能在八月结束，他说：“在完工之前我们还要继续努力工作。所有人都全力以赴，确保该工程尽善尽美。”

It has been a year since the university broke ground on the $650 million project — the biggest in USC history — that will create a living-learning community of residential colleges for 2,700 undergraduates come fall 2017. With thickets of reinforced concrete beams now stretching 20 feet high across the 15-acre site, university leaders have turned their attention to “finishes” — the design elements that will shape how the buildings and their surroundings function and how they make people feel.

“You get these wonderful shady colonnades and open sunny plazas, the courtyards and these great palazzo-style buildings,” said architect R. Douglas Keys of the firm Harley Ellis Devereaux, showing page after page of project renderings.

Gothic arches and banded-brick walkways lead unexpectedly to lobbies, study spaces and environment-friendly suites loaded with digital technologies, such as motion-sensing light switches and customizable thermostats.

Flexibility

A 21st-century living-learning community that also captures USC architectural traditions — that’s the delicate alchemy USC Village architects were tasked with achieving.

“The exterior conveys a story of having been in place for a long, long time,” Keys said. “We have the brick, pre-cast stone trim around the windows and openings, these beautiful colonnades around the outsides of the buildings.”

Inside, flexibility is a high priority. USC Village lobbies, lounges and collaboration rooms must accommodate presentation rehearsals, traditional study groups, Web-based multimedia sessions and more. Interior designers will use modular furniture that can be easily reconfigured and will hold up under heavy use. In terms of information technology, students will see flat-screen monitors set up to link with a variety of digital devices. It means Wi-Fi and high-speed Ethernet ports — and a lot of wall plugs.

The technology follows students into their suites: Each of the 1,900 units comes with a wireless hub — but they won’t have telephone landlines. “Everyone is on cellphones,” project manager Willy Marsh said.

Marsh worked closely with USC housing and facilities staff to anticipate students’ needs in a residence hall.

The result is 2,700 beds organized in 18 different unit types; all are suites. “We have lots of configurations,” Marsh said, “singles, doubles, fours with one bathroom, eights with two bathrooms.”

A full-scale, fully outfitted model of Unit H — a four-person suite of two double bedrooms, a common living room, kitchen and bathroom — stands in the USC Village construction office. There, architects, interior decorators and staff can mix and match options for furniture, flooring
, fixtures, paint colors, fabrics, appliances and window treatments.

“There’s a lot of experience from USC Housing operations in terms of what works and what doesn’t work,” Marsh said.

To accommodate students with disabilities, suites were designed so that steel-reinforced grab bars, strobe-light doorbells or roll-in tubs can be quickly installed in each room if they’re needed.

Durability

Durability also is key. USC Housing staff know that wear-and-tear on student units will be heavy. Student residential buildings often have a lifespan of 25 to 30 years, Marsh said, while USC Village is built to last 100. Yet the life expectancy of most “finish” materials at the complex is only about five years because they’ll be so heavily used.

Built-in appliances are basic: A gas range and microwave oven, standard refrigerator and 42-inch flat-screen TV come with each unit. Laminate flooring, used throughout the suites, resists scratching, scuffing and burning, and comes with built-in sound absorption.

Bedroom furniture needs to be solidly built but flexible, because “students are moving stuff around all the time,” Marsh said. “Ninety percent of the beds will be lowered, raised or lofted in the first two weeks, and they want to do it themselves.”

Each residence hall in USC Village will have a unique character and identity, and each will have its own color palette as well.

Marsh expects decisions on finishes to be final by August.

“We are all working long hours,” he said. “We work till we get it done. Everyone is committed to make the project successful.”

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