Lynhaven Elementary School underwent a significant modernization process with the addition of a new Multi-Use building. The project included a new servery that feeds hundreds of meals a day and a charming production stage with professional lighting and sound capabilities, all surrounded by natural light that floods in from the oversized wall of windows. Additionally, this project included a new school office with a welcoming and re-imaged school front entry. The drop off zone, staff parking, exterior facing sitework and landscaping were all newly constructed after the installation of updated campus utilities, all in time for the start of the 2023 school year.
Facing a quickly growing student population, Stratford Middle School in Pleasanton was in dire need of a fast expansion. Over the course of one summer break, and with no disruption to students or the academic year, the school doubled in size with the addition of an 8,064 sf TimberQuestTM classroom building. The building boasts a teacher’s lounge, small work areas, a science lab, and several large classrooms and most importantly, the students and staff will benefit from TimberQuestTMs innate biophilic elements like exposed wood grains and large floor to ceiling windows to allow in an abundance of sunlight.
The renovation and modernization of Lydiksen Elementary School began with a Master Planning process. Once projects were identified and prioritized, the design team planned to complete the multi-year phased renovation of the campus, minimizing disruption and displacement. In total, nearly every part of the campus was updated including a re-imagined student drop-off and school parking area, new playground equipment and blacktop sports court paint, two new single-story classroom buildings, a kindergarten classroom cluster with an age-appropriate playground, an oversized lunch shade structure, a new administration building and school entrance, and a fresh coat of paint throughout.
The muti-phased renovation project of Forest Hill Elementary School is currently complete with Phase 1. This included the relocation of the school’s administration building with the addition to and renovation of an existing Knowledge Center and the campus Library. The school now has a more functional and larger 5035 sf administration office complete with a fresh, new, and welcoming entry, just in time for the start of the school year! Phase 1 also included new infrastructure sitewide, which will not only bring the school’s support functions up to current standards but will also prepare for the future planned addition of a new Multi-Use Building and Kindergarten playground.
Prospect High School was Aedis’ first K-12 Mass Timber project. The school was transformed with the addition of two, single story buildings and approximately 1.5 acres of site work that seamlessly connects with the existing campus and adds approximately 20,000 SF of indoor and outdoor learning areas. The importance of nature and biophilia for student health and wellness was a major focus for this project and the designs truly reflect that commitment. A strong indoor-outdoor connection was woven into the design, and Cross Laminated Timber, a natural, renewable, sustainable, and low carbon footprint material, was used for the roof structure. It creates a warm, pleasant and biophilic space that promotes an increase in student performance as well as boosts the energy level and overall well-being of the occupants. Project highlights include: spacious classrooms, maker spaces and science labs with large covered, outdoor collaboration spaces for extended learning.
South Valley Middle School was built in the mid 1950’s as a high school and later converted to a middle school. The 21-acre campus, located in a diverse neighborhood, had reached its’ end of life and needed replacement. The new “Village Concept” design includes a completely new look for the school and relocates the entry from a congested neighborhood street to another, providing much needed traffic relief and a safer drop off zone for the students. The school now has new classrooms with outdoor learning areas, science lab and makers space classrooms, a signature administration building, a Multi-Use and library building, and new gymnasium with a weight room and indoor climbing wall. Tiger Quad, at the heart of the school, depicts the school’s mascot’s tiger paw, surrounded by the new outdoor learning spaces. This project was constructed on an occupied campus and was phased to allow for minimum occupancy disruption.
The San Benito High School District needed to replace their antiquated science classrooms. The district decided to build a 38,000 sf customized pre-engineered science and robotics building consisting of 14 science classrooms/labs. This building matches the aesthetics of the historical 1920s era main building and the campus. This two-story building consists of chemistry classrooms on the 2nd floor, and earth sciences on the first floor. Each floor has corresponding auxiliary spaces. The building also consists of a 2000 sf robotics classroom with large workspaces and a roll-up door to access additional outdoor work areas. The design features plenty of natural daylighting, energy-efficient HVAC systems, and many of the latest technologies.
The phased renovation of Brownell Middle School included a complete campus reconfiguration. The new buildings consist of single-story construction of six learning communities, an administration building, a library/media center, and a kitchen addition in the Multi-purpose building. Each learning community has a shared, secure outdoor learning environment and the classrooms feature roll-up garage style doors to allow for collaboration between classes. Modernization and site improvements included upgrading the existing multi-purpose gym, PE and athletic facilities along the west and east side of the school, and new onsite utilities. New construction consisted of the addition of a new staff parking lot on the north end and staff and visitor parking lot on the west end, approximately 89 stalls, school signage, a new marquee sign, and multiple independent custom shade structures. Additionally, the school is equipped with solar panels and features a large central courtyard.
Sunny School District’s Maintenance and Operations Department was in need of an upgrade to accommodate for the storage needs of the IT and Facilities Departments. To quickly and economically accommodate them, a metal warehouse building was constructed with secure IT offices, a break room, IT workrooms with plenty of stations, and caged and locked storage racks for technology equipment. The facility included a mezzanine level storage space with an oversized lift for easy and safe equipment handling and large roll-up doors for convenient loading and unloading. The project also included the addition of electric bus charging stations and all associated utility and site infrastructure to support them.
Westmoor High School underwent a three part renovation and upgrade of it’s campus. At the onset, the campus project required pre-design and programming services. Once that was complete, the well planned campus renovation was executed in three phases. Phase one included new sitework in preparation for the subsequent phases, a new Maintenance Building was added during phase two, and phase three was the most extensive. It finished out the project with a new two-story classroom building, a new 400+ seat performing arts theater and a campus Woodshop.