Cal Poly Pomona Capstone · LA 4621L

A Learning Landscape at Santa Rita Elementary

By Jazmine Gomez Mercado & Isaac Andrade · Cal Poly Pomona, Landscape Architecture · Santa Rita Elementary School, Lubao, Pampanga, Philippines

CPP Capstone StudioSanta Rita Elementary SchoolDesign proposal

A Learning Landscape at Santa Rita Elementary turns the school grounds themselves into a teaching environment. Their capstone book opens with a layered site analysis — the school sits in the Pampanga River basin floodplain at about 4.57 meters above sea level, connected by barangay roads — and designs the landscape around how students move, gather, and learn outdoors.

This is a student design proposal, developed for the LA 4621L capstone studio’s February 2026 study trip — it is a design, not built work.

Their work

The site today

From the trip

Video from the February 2026 Lubao studio trip. More footage is on the Lubao hub.

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