LEARNING BY DESIGN magazine - Alamo Heights High School STEM Building

STEM Building location at Alamo Heights High School
STEM Building placed at heart of campus to create a dynamic hub
STEM Building Floor Plan
STEM Building Organizational Diagram
STEM Building transparency places dynamic programs on display. Landscaped spaces create places for students in the heart of campus.
Open maker/collaboration spaces
Visibility and connections between maker/collaboration spaces and STEM classrooms
Exterior spaces have been improved to link the campus and provide meaningful outdoor space.
Rocketry Lab allows for growth of the successful program
Campus placemaking
Rocketry Lab is a place for making
Rocketry Lab on corner with direct access outdoors
The spaces are designed for future learning modalities
Planters double as biofiltration to treat stormwater
Interior of the makerspace and collaborative areas with transparency to the exterior
Interior of Rocketry Lab

PROJECT NARRARTIVE

The re-visioning of Alamo Heights High School’s historic campus included a significant reworking of the campus heart with three new facilities: the STEM Building, the Student Commons and the Athletics Complex.

The new STEM Building casts a new vision for the 70-year-old campus. The program includes a specialty rocketry lab, maker spaces / collaborative areas, STEM classrooms and teacher prep areas. Easy connections to the outdoor shaded spaces allow students to take their work outside.

Flexibility is inherent in the facility’s design. The open plan and regular structural layout allow for collaborative areas to be transformed into teaching spaces or labs to meet the future needs of the program. The ability to adapt to new curriculum prolong the life and usefulness of the STEM Building.

The STEM program for the District was developed in partnership with the community. Teachers, business partners and parents met for planning and visioning sessions to craft the STEM path at the district. Community partners invested in the process, supporting the programs by consulting on lab layout and donating equipment. STEM lab and collaborative areas open to the campus to show student collaboration and celebrate the STEM projects.

Alamo Heights High School STEM Building

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Owner
Alamo Heights Independent School District
San Antonio, TX

Architecture Firm
LPA Design Studios
Irvine,California
lpadesignstudios.com

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Planters double as biofiltration to treat stormwater

Alamo Heights High School STEM Building

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