sustainable production design institute
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William Cameron Menzies Institute:
Fully sustainable Production Design Institute that teaches students how to design with the environment in mind.
Concept: Two Realities.
Students have two goals: 1) create an alter-nate reality on screen and, 2) insure that the production practices involved in making this reality, do not negatively impact our reality.
To the right is the administrative building where students enjoy their first impression of the school.
Rendering developed with AutoCAD and Pho-toshop.
Main School Building:
Every finish, every piece of furniture, and all of the construction for W.C,M.I. meets varying LEED credits. (raw materials, low emissions, etc.) All the buildings were pre-existing film studios that have been converted.
Featured are a drafting room and the small screen-ing/ lecture rooms that become one large room with the use of a vertical wall system.
Renderings developed with SketchUP, Shaderlight,
and Photshop
The Library:
The library is comprised of 3 famous library film sets from Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and the Harry Potter Series.
Students research for their own projects amongst highly successful real sets, putting them in a cre-ative and inspiring atmosphere.
The entire building is ADA compliant and most of the walls shown are pre-existing.
Rendering developed using SketchUp, Shader-
light, and Photoshop.
The Production Workshop:
This workshop is an open space for the students to build their sets.
Students must build sets made from materials that can easily be taken apart and recycled and/or re-plenish the stock areas shown in the floorplan.
There was minimal demolition waste, as most walls seen in the floorplan to the right are existing. The only added walls are the dividers between stock
areas. (paper, wood, metal, etc.)
The above rendering shows the use of solatubes used to bring natural light into the space with no pre-existing windows along the exterior.
Rendered using SketchUP, Shaderlight, and Pho-toshop.
