HS Design Team Meeting

The HS Design Team continues to meet at the Elementary West building as an attempt to feel inspired in our future high school space.
We continue to review and work on the Mission Statement and Beliefs and Values that will guide us in our planning.
At our last meeting, we broke into groups and attempted to design our high school space with small puzzle pieces that were the scale of classrooms, gymnasium, offices, science labs, etc. Those finished “puzzles” were photographed and were the topic of conversation at this meeting.
We noted similarities and differences in concepts and placement of key pieces with respect to spaces that are used during the school day (classrooms, labs, ) and those spaces that are used after the school day (gym, commons) and the common spaces that are used both during the day and after the school day.
We discussed the layout of the building to allow for “quiet spaces” such as classrooms and Media Center. And “noisy spaces” such as music, shops, art, and phy ed.
Also related to spaces and layout, was discussion about how these spaces affect supervision, security and being able to lock off the classroom portion of the building for after school events.
We also discussed outdoor spaces such as parking and fields.
There was discussion about future expansion and planning spaces to allow for more parking, more classrooms, etc. It is clear that the building site will have the most influence on the design of the building.
Our next meeting is May 12, 2010.

Submitted by Liz Krocak