Learning & Culture

Collaborating to create great community assets

 

Communities are shaped and characterized by the strength of their learning environments and cultural amenities. As listeners, we hear the needs of our teachers, curators, librarians, clerg, and non-profit leaders and translate them into solutions through the process of integrated design.

Dean Hall at Central Washington University

BCRA Learning + Culture blends design innovation with community engagement to create bold environments a community can be proud of. Our experience with public and private K-12 schools, college and university academic and residential buildings, libraries, museums and worship facilities ensures our solutions will be well-rounded and build on the latest design philosophies and technologies. In the end, our goal is to design spaces where people can thrive.  

 

  With the help of sustainable design experts and creative architects, Central Washington University achieved its first LEED Gold facility campus-wide.
     
  Partnerships between the Bureau of Indian Affairs, US Army Corps of Engineers, and BCRA contributed to the design of this new Day School in New Mexico.

 

 

 

Currently on the boards with BCRA's Learning + Culture team, Pacific Lutheran University's Eastvold Auditorium is taking shape as the premier theater venue in the South Sound area.

Susie Russell Hall Art Studio

Architecture + Interior Spaces applied to a vibrant local artist's live/work studio.

Language and Performing Arts Center

Using everything from new technology, disparate ideas, and marketing strategies to design a better space.

Incorporating a host of green features, CWU's Dean Hall stands as the first LEED certified building on the campus.

Children's Museum of Tacoma

BCRA designer Gail Merth and building scientist Lee Durston tackle the commonly-vetted question: retrofit or replace? School design and engineering professionals take a new forensics-based approach and offer educational facilities staff a new way of evaluating a building's future. 

Designed by BCRA Learning + Culture, a new performing arts space featuring a black box theater solved complex production and acoustical challenges at Charles Wright Academy in University Place, WA.

Clover Park School Design & Citizen Outreach Program

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