Centrally located in its neighborhood, the site design provides community amenities, pedestrian connections, environmental enhancements, and learning opportunities.

Complete renovation with strategic additions resulted in an intuitive plan, ideal program adjacencies and natural light in all learning spaces.

Navigation through the simplified circulation system is enhanced by a wayfinding floor pattern leading to color coordinated learning neighborhoods.

Classrooms promoting a variety of arrangements and activities are organized around dynamic collaborative areas accommodating all learning styles.

SMES was constructed in 1967 as an open plan school. The modernization addition re-envisions the future of education by focusing the architecture on learners.

Transformation of the existing windowless, flat façade into a bright, colorful beacon that welcomes the community to its site.

The school’s new vibrant security vestibule welcomes students, staff and visitors alike, setting the tone for the building‘s metamorphosis.

Each classroom is designed to accommodate a variety of group sizes, collaborative activities, and individual learning addressing the psychological, sociological, and emotional needs of students.

The moment classrooms and collaboration spaces unite is accentuated by glazing and impactful ceiling and floor designs, enticing students to learn beyond the traditional classroom.

To capture circulation space for learning activities, collaboration areas are strategically planned at corridor ends to eliminate through traffic.

These dynamic environments support each student’s learning style features a variety of flexible, fun furnishing to ensure students are comfortable and ready to learn.

Vibrant color, ceiling planes, and floor patterns define the space and are combined with learning tools such as electronic displays and writeable surfaces.

As the heart of the school, the media center was renovated to accommodate areas for full classroom learning, a playful reading nook, bookshelves, and makerspace.

The existing cafeteria was renovated, now opening to a new, full-sized gym with a folding partition allowing the community and school to entertain large gatherings

A rain barrel system collects rainwater overflow and redistributes it to turtles that live in the interior courtyard as part of the school’s science program.

The expansive corner windows offer calming views of nature while the colored glass creates playful reflections throughout the building following the sun’s path.

Lester Escobal

Lester Escobal

Lester Escobal