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Project Description PROJECT DESCRIPTION < ORACLE EDUCATIONAL FACITITY, REDWOOD CITY, CA Formal Planning Submittal – 9.11.2015 Oracle Education Foundation – Proposed Public High School PROJECT OVERVIEW The proposed project will be a partnership between Oracle, Oracle Education Foundation, and Design Tech High School. Oracle Oracle is a Fortune 100 corporation headquartered in Redwood Shores. Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center. Oracle Education Foundation Oracle Education Foundation (OEF) is a nonprofit organization funded by Oracle. It is a private foundation as defined in IRC Section 509(a). It engages Oracle employees as volunteer instructors, coaching high school students in multiday projects at the intersection of science, technology, engineering, the arts, and math (STEAM) disciplines. All OEF projects combine skill building with design challenges. Students learn coding and electrical engineering, and then apply these skills to problem solving. The problem-solving approach is Design Thinking, which promotes empathy with the user, creativity in generating solutions, the value of failure as necessary to learning and innovation, and rationality in fitting solutions to the context of the problem. OEF projects are fun and teach creative confidence, as well as persistence, resiliency, and grit. Many projects are designed to demystify the basic science underlying today's technologies and tomorrow's innovations. They use open hardware to introduce students to the most fundamental building blocks of engineering and show that technology is not magic—it’s accessible science that students can learn and use to author amazing, previously unimagined solutions. While inclusive, OEF's program pays particular attention to girls and other populations historically under-represented in STEAM careers. The Oracle Education Foundation is partnering deeply with Design Tech High School (d.tech), to implement, refine, and scale the program described here. In d.tech, we have found an extraordinary partner that shares our values around the importance of teaching innovation and design thinking, the power of diversity and inclusion, and the necessity of reinventing education. We want to provide this exceptional school with a permanent home on the Oracle headquarters campus. 399 Bradford Street Redwood City, California 94063 Tel 650-364-6453 Fax 650-364-2618 www.des-ae.com PROJECT DESCRIPTION < September 11, 2015 Page 2 of 7 Design Tech High School Design Tech High School is a California public high school currently authorized by the San Mateo Union High School District. Two principles guide the d.tech model: extreme personalization and putting knowledge into action. The school holds every student to the same high standards, but allows each student to move at his or her own pace to achieve those standards. Additionally, d.tech teaches students to solve real-world problems using a Design Thinking approach similar to that taught at Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school). Together, these two approaches provide students with a problem-solving model they can use throughout their lives to make positive contributions to a constantly changing world. At present, d.tech leases space on the Mills High School campus for approximately 140 9th- grade students. The school is adding a grade per year and will be at full capacity, with around 550 student’s grades 9-12 and 30 full time employees, by the start of the 2017-2018 academic year. Our Collaboration Oracle Education Foundation will construct the new facility for d.tech on a currently undeveloped parcel on the Oracle Headquarter campus. The building will be approximately 64,000 SF in 2-stories with the associated site improvements and landscaping. Approximately 35 parking spaces will be provided for staff and visitors. Design considerations will include environmental sensitivities associated with the Belmont Slough, interface between the school and the Bay Trail, as well as adjacency to the larger Oracle campus for joint use of facilities such as the gym, convention center, and kitchen. PROJECT SITE AND EXISTING CONDITIONS The project is located on a 4.1-acre portion of Oracle-owned property in Redwood Shores, just north of Oracle Parkway. An existing parking lot is currently located where the new Design Tech High School would be located. The remainder of the property is undeveloped. The property is bounded to the north and west by Belmont Slough and on the south by Oracle Parkway. A power line runs roughly north south along the westerly border of the site. Oracle acquired the site in 1996 and completed the construction of the existing parking lot in 1999. Prior to this, the site was undeveloped except for landscape improvements along Oracle Parkway. DES Architects + Engineers, Inc. PROJECT DESCRIPTION < September 11, 2015 Page 3 of 7 SITE IMPROVEMENTS The site improvements include the above-grade and below-grade improvements necessary to serve and accommodate the new High School as well as the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) public access. Such improvements consist of and require grading, site access, new High School structure(s), utility services, and storm water management. The existing site is composed of an existing asphalt concrete parking lot, a vehicular turnout with parking from Oracle Parkway, a grassy, undeveloped field, sporadic trees, a section of the Bay Trail with connecting pathways, and outdoor exercise stations. ACCESS AND LAYOUT The site access is primarily from Oracle Parkway, which is an existing public road looping around the Oracle campus from two connections with Marine Parkway to the south. Oracle Parkway will allow for vehicular (standard, delivery, and emergency), bicycle, and pedestrian access to the High School. The High School project will comply with all jurisdictional requirements with respect to emergency vehicle access and ADA-compliant pathways. D.Tech school attracts students from San Francisco to the north, Sunnyvale to the south, Berkeley to the east and Half Moon Bay on the west. The wide area from which they draw encourages the use of public transportation and car pooling. We would expect families to continue to utilize these options at the new location. D.Tech has a flexible schedule, so they are able to adjust the bell schedule to accommodate the Caltrain schedule. For student drop-off we are proposing a pull in area that will accommodate approximately 20 cars at a time, this drop- off will be monitored by staff. Some older student will have concurrent enrollment at local community colleges as well as participation in internships. We will reserve a small number of parking spots for students participating in internships on a schedule where Caltrain is not an option. The school also proposes to purchase a van to transport students and staff to and from the Belmont Caltrain station around mid-day so that they can participate in concurrent college enrollment and internships. In addition Oracle offers shuttle programs to a number of transportation hubs including Millbrae Caltrain/BART and the San Carlos and Hillsdale Caltrain Stations. In addition the Bridgepark Shuttle and Clipper Shuttle offer connections to the Belmont Caltrain Station. All of these shuttles will be available to students and staff. DES Architects + Engineers, Inc. PROJECT DESCRIPTION < September 11, 2015 Page 4 of 7 The project can also be accessed by bicyclists and pedestrians via the Bay Trail, which stretches the length of the site along the Belmont Slough. Portions of this section of the Bay Trail may be modified and improved upon as needed for efficient site design and public access. The BCDC 100 ft shoreline band covers approximately 1.18 acres of the project site, which will be taken into account when designing new and replacement improvements. The Bay Trail will continue through the project site in approximately the same location. The Bay Trail also crosses the Belmont Slough via a bicyclist and pedestrian bridge southwest of the project. Additionally, public parking will be provided for access to the Bay Trail. PROJECT DESIGN - BUILDING SKIN The building takes on a sinuous form that blends organically with the shape of the site. On the south side, the façade is broken into 3 different parts, with the emphasis on the center, where the main entrance, assembly hall and fabrication labs are located. This portion of the façade has a high-level of transparency - full-height glass walls – and allows views throughout the building to the slough side. The façade is further articulated by a continuous metal canopy, supported by canted metal columns. The Canopy has contrasting warmer finishes such as wood panel soffits. The east and west wings of the buildings, which represent the learning neighborhoods, receive smooth metal panels with horizontal glass walls and sun-shades. The two ends of the building are differentiated by full-height curtain walls with projected, horizontal sun shades to create visual interest and reflect the flexible learning nooks inside. These features wrap around the ends of the building and terminate against the specially-designed stair towers. The north side of the building introduces metal panels that mimic the look of wood siding. We introduced the look of wood primarily on the slough side of the project to soften the appearance of the building and provide an enhanced experience for bay trail users and the neighbors across the slough. The wood also responds to the waterfront location, a material commonly used in boardwalks, docks and boats themselves. The curves of the façade also soften the overall feel of the building which in plan follows the curvature of the site. All the glazing on the project is clear to maximize indoor/outdoor connectivity, the technology and creativity occurring within the school will be clearly visible to passer by. It is important for Oracle to have this building feel aesthetically connected to the campus; we took cues from the conference center with its metal panel and ribbon windows as seen in the proposed projects classroom areas that face Oracle Parkway.
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