First Floor Plan showing a centralized plan organized around a core and a large promenade connecting entries for car and bus riders.

Second Floor Plan showing media center on second level making a visual connection with dining commons below.

Elementary Wing First Floor Plan showing a large central collaborative area that is separated by folding glass walls from learning studios and small group rooms.

Middle School Wing First Floor Plan showing CTE, Science and Maker Studios with access to the outdoors permitting learning to occur flexibly indoors and outdoors.

Stakeholder Visioning and Programming sessions culminated in Master Planning Charrettes with the Campus Architectural Team, making the planning process open and collaborative.

The signature entry is oriented towards the existing elementary school, whose overcrowding propelled the genesis of planning the Intermediate School

Windows through the building are framed with brick borders to relate to the neighborhood context, provide a smaller scale residential feel for the 2-storey building

roof monitors with north facing clerestory windows bring filtered light flooding in, and effectively augment the artificial light.

Circulation areas outside the library and unusable space under the main circulation stair are useful student gathering areas, allowing learning to happen everywhere.

Collaborative commons and studios with flexible furniture, writeable surfaces, access to technology and ample learning opportunities

Insulated concrete tilt-wall panel and masonry veneer over structural steel studs offer higher temperature stability, energy efficiency and lower operating costs.

Fine Arts spaces on second floor owing to outdoor learning needs for Arts studios required a floating floor in areas denoted blue in plan above

Thoughtful use of color in the core spaces and learning studios in accent walls, floor patterning and ceiling accent colors provide identity and wayfinding clues.

Hard wearing porcelain tile wainscots in circulation and common areas and no-wax vinyl tile floors throughout most of the building help lower long-term operating costs.

Outdoor learning areas provide fresh air and opportunities for outdoor instruction when provided with an all-weather cover, weather-resistant white board and comfortable outdoor seating

An eco-charrette with student input and the first-of-its-kind green building internship program tours through the facility involved students every step of the way.