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Schools School Study:San Mateo High School  |
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Carducci & Associates, Inc. was hired by the San Mateo High School District as the Landscape Architect for campus modernizations of six San Mateo schools. Opened in 1926, San Mateo High School’s historic main administration building was found to be structurally unsafe in 2001. The structural status of the historic building prompted the modernization of the entire campus. Carducci & Associates was able to preserve and hallmark the historic quality of San Mateo High School, while improving its safety, accessibility, and aesthetics. Carducci & Associates proposed to salvage bricks and art tiles from the exterior of the school’s historic buildings and incorporate them into the seat terrace walls of a new amphitheater. This new amphitheater becomes the focal point of the campus and a valuable staging area for school events. Carducci & Associates also designed a “History Walk”: a campus entrance pathway lined with year markers from 1926 to the present with room for future graduating classes to place their own markers. At the entrance of the campus, Carducci & Associates’ design preserves the parklike setting of large lawns and groves of mature existing trees and also includes a new rose garden that integrates new roses with relocated on-site roses. The internal campus features functional gathering spaces such as the Spirit Court and Lunch Court. A day care center with an outside children’s play garden serves faculty and students. The Great Lawn in the north end of campus becomes the “green heart” of the campus. The overall campus exhibits a California garden quality with the presence of new and existing redwood, cedar, California pepper, Irish yew, elm, palm and oak trees, bamboo stands, Italian cypress, cherry trees, plane trees, Japanese maples and many colorful flowers and shrubs.
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 Campus Entrance  Courtyard at lunch  Courtyard Plan  Courtyard  Redwood Grove Existing assets, such as this redwood grove, are preserved in the renovation, and help define new focal points within the campus. |
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