LEARNING BY DESIGN magazine - Orme Campbell High School

Overall campus plan where gray denotes areas not renovated, colors designate new construction, and all other areas are either complete reconfigurations or at a minimum, new finishes.
The Performing Arts Center building new construction relation to the existing school.
The new construction of the Classroom Addition and Gymnasium in relation to the existing school.
Competition Gymnasium Exterior. The competition gym creates an inviting corner to the campus for students and visitors alike.
Competitions Gym Interior. The gym interior provides the flexibility to provide two practice courts, a full regulation court with 3000 spectators or any number of events or meetings.
Three-story Classroom Building Expansion. While providing greatly needed classroom space the three story classroom building expansion creates an edge for a main pedestrian corridor on campus.
Main Street. Pedestrian paths within are equally important in improving the campus flow. An expanded ‘Main Street’ connects Administration to the heart of the main building.
Media Center Exterior. The reimagined media center creates new definition along the western edge of campus opening a previously solid corner with northern glass and shaded western glazing.
Media Center Interior. Previously the school theater, the media center provides a light filled ‘heart’ to the campus.
Performing Center Exterior
Performing Arts Center Lobby
Performing Arts Theater
@2022 Creative Sources Photography, Inc.
@2022 Creative Sources Photography, Inc.
@2022 Creative Sources Photography, Inc.

Orme Campbell High School is story of transformation from ‘puzzle pieces’ to place. Beginning in 1952 with 425 students, the schools history of mergers and explosive growth led to a patchwork of buildings and trailers struggling to meet the demanding needs of a diverse 21st century high school.

With over 15 hallways and six buildings the campus needed expansion and clarity. The new construction started with a competition gymnasium in 2018 providing a new face on the west side of campus and continued with a new performing arts center in 2021 providing a new public face on the opposite side of the campus. To continue to address the need for classroom capacity a new infill 3 story classroom wing integrated into the campus fabric for a campus of 3000 students and growing.

The revitalization of the entire campus continued with reimagining substantial areas of the interior. This includes a new expanded ‘main street’ connecting administration, to expanded tiered dining areas, to open vertical circulation, and anchored by the media center, or ‘community hub.’ With increased capacity and fresh, updated cohesive palette both inside and out the school is able to continue to serve and now inspire the students it serves.

Orme Campbell High School

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Project Location:
Smyrna, GA

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Collins Cooper Carusi
Atlanta, GA
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Orme Campbell High School

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