Orange County户外教育中心Rancho Soñado动工重建 2,100万美元项目预计2027年底完工
Orange County教育局（OCDE）近日为位于Santa Ana山脉的Rancho Soñado户外教育中心举行新中心动工仪式。这座占地约110英亩的营地是该局「走进户外」（Inside the Outdoors）环境教育项目的长期基地，2020年12月的邦德火灾（Bond Fire）烧毁了营地三栋建筑中的两栋，多只担任教学大使的动物死亡，项目此后转至各校课堂与外展场地继续运作。
新中心总投资2,100万美元，建设内容包括新教室与行政楼、环境科学多功能楼、户外用餐亭、带顶棚的学习区、沿步道分布的四座教学亭及一座133个座位的露天剧场，并扩建停车场与进出道路。建筑将采用混凝土砌块、钢材与金属屋面等不可燃材料，配室内喷淋、建筑周边地面喷淋系统与新消防栓。工程由C.W. Driver公司承建、tBP/Architecture设计，Orange County教育委员会已于9月批准建设协议，施工预计持续至2027年12月。
「走进户外」项目创办于1974年，累计服务学生超过350万人次，目前每学年服务约10万名学生。教育局表示，新中心建成后，学生将重返这片位于西尔维拉多峡谷一带的山地营地参加实地科学课程。
Groundbreaking Launches $21 Million Rebuild of OCDE's Rancho Soñado Outdoor Education Center
The Orange County Department of Education (OCDE) has broken ground on a new $21 million education center at Rancho Soñado, its roughly 110-acre outdoor education site in the Santa Ana Mountains. The property has been home to OCDE's Inside the Outdoors program since 2006; the Bond Fire of December 2020 destroyed two of its three structures and killed many of the program's animal ambassadors.
The rebuilt center will include new classroom and administrative buildings, a multipurpose environmental science building, an outdoor dining pavilion, a covered learning area, four teaching pavilions along the trails and a 133-seat amphitheater, along with expanded parking and access-road improvements. Buildings will use noncombustible materials such as concrete block, steel and metal roofing, with interior sprinklers, an exterior ground-wetting system and a new on-site fire hydrant. C.W. Driver is the construction partner and tBP/Architecture leads the design; the Orange County Board of Education approved the construction agreements in September, and work is expected to continue through December 2027.
Founded in 1974, Inside the Outdoors has reached more than 3.5 million students and now serves about 100,000 students each school year through classroom and field programs across Orange County.
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图片来源：图：圣安娜山脉西尔维拉多峡谷的山间步道与植被。图片来源：Steve Riggins，Wikimedia Commons，CC BY 3.0。Photo: A trail through Silverado Canyon in the Santa Ana Mountains. Image: Steve Riggins, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0.
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