FEATURED PROJECTS
THE POWER OF PLACE BASED LEARNING
INNOVATION FOR NEXT LEVEL LEARNING
JOHN S MCCAIN III ES
Buckeye Elementary School District's 9th school aspires to break the traditional school design formula and become a model for schools of the future. Designed to have three learning communities based on age groups K-2, 3-5 and 6-8, each has dedicated maker spaces and shared breakout spaces to facilitate individualized learning opportunities. The conceptual design theme of the project, Taking Flight, is derived from the life of its namesake, the late Sen. John McCain, who served as a jet fighter pilot on an aircraft carrier during his time in the Navy and conceptualizes the school as a springboard for its students to take flight in their lives and education, just as an aircraft carrier facilitates the flight of military aircraft. The world class education provided here will be housed in a high performance learner centric facility that will enable the staff in their mission to cultivate and nurture the skills their students need to prepare them to their futures.
PROFESSIONAL EDUCATOR PREPARATION
CHERRY CREEK SCHOOLS
ASPIRING EDUCATOR PATHWAY
Cherry Creek's Aspiring Educator Pathway aims to disrupt traditional teacher preparation programs with a transformative approach to the development of educators through a primary focus on classroom experience. Through creative public private partnerships, this innovative, competency-based program aims to provide a solution to the national challenges of teacher recruitment, retention and longevity.
Through a paid professional apprenticeship, the Aspiring Educator Pathway is grounded in the strengths of hands-on experiences and research-driven professional practice.
These aspiring educators have a spiraled set of experiences that include 5000+ hours partnered with a Cherry Creek mentor teacher, an embedded, best-in-class professional learning curriculum, and a customized set of higher education courses.
Successful completion of this four-year program will culminate in a Colorado teacher license, a university bachelor's degree, and a full-time teaching position in Cherry Creek Schools.
LEADING THROUGH MOMENTS OF OPPORTUNITY AND MOMENTS OF FRICTION
The American Association of International Education Global Think Tank brought together a diverse group of international school leaders, systems thinkers, and educators for a transformative, in-person experience centered around future-oriented leadership. Through a carefully designed process grounded in human-centered principles, participants engaged in courageous conversations, shared bold questions, and co-constructed solutions aimed at reimagining education. This photo captures a reflective moment of deep dialogue, illustrating the collaborative spirit and collective wisdom that emerged as attendees navigated uncertainty together and committed to shaping more just, adaptive, and student-centered learning ecosystems.​
AAIE GLOBAL THINK TANK
A CULTURE OF COLLABORATION
The Madison Meadows Middle School is an International Baccalaureate school and the client wanted the design to represent the ideals and culture of the educational program. The IB program uses a global curriculum and encourages students to become empathetic, self-motivated learners who will contribute to the world positively. They believe in creating learning communities where students can fully engage and not feel inhibited by barriers. This project consists of a Middle School replacement classroom, administration and media center building on an existing campus. Classroom suites include rooms with a 24’ wide operable glass partition to allows the room to be opened to a large collaboration space. The project consisted of a new 43,000 SF building that replaced two existing buildings with an Administration, Media Center, Art Room, Design Labs, Science Classrooms, an outdoor Science Yard, a Special Education Suite, an outdoor classroom on the second floor, and 11 regular classrooms.
MADISON MEADOWS MS
TEACHING AND LEARNING INTEGRATION
Construction is a $1 trillion-plus industry that impacts every aspect of our lives—where we live, work, learn, shop, dine, etc. and it’s a great place to build your future. SCCM offers two Bachelor of Science degrees both merging hands-on learning with innovative technology and business management skills. The new two-story, SCCM building serves student with 54,000 square feet of classroom, laboratory, and office space. The state of the art custom design adds unique exposed elements make the building a specialized teaching tool.
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MIDDLE TN STATE UNIVERSITY
SOCIAL IMPACT LEARNING PLATFORM
Serving students in 35 cities across the U.S., U.K., Canada and Europe, Project Destined is a social impact platform designed and developed in partnership with over 250 businesses, entrepreneurs and educators. The Project Destined virtual learning platform and curriculum is specifically design to support learning of minority students in the areas of real estate, entrepreneurship and financial literacy. Through e-learning coursework, bridge programs and virtual internships, students explore how property investments in their own neighborhood work, how to value buildings, how mortgages work and how investors decide if a property is worth buying. Founded in 2016, Project Destined serves approximately 2,500 students each year.
PROJECT DESTINED
COMMUNITY WELLNESS AND NUTRITION EDUCATION
Roosevelt Elementary School District sought innovation and creativity in school nutrition via their new Culinary Center. The five-acre site houses a unique and innovative multipurpose facility designed to not only serve as the hub for the District’s Child Nutrition Department, but also serve as an instructional resource to enhance and support Wellness and Nutrition Education within the Roosevelt School District. The design and purpose of this state-of-the-art facility is to directly promote healthy lifestyles for the students and residents of the South Mountain community. Roosevelt’s Wellness Center focuses on the ideas that are driving the design of a groundbreaking food warehouse, conference center, and demonstration garden that is accessible to the surrounding neighborhoods. Hydroponics, solar strategies and other green options, inspired designers and the District’s “Top Chef” to realize this community vision.
ROOSEVELT WELLNESS CENTER
ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION
Creating authentic, exceptional learning experiences for young people focused on entrepreneurship, the BUILD digital strategy lays the groundwork for digital communication and interactions between learners, teachers, and other community members. This social entrepreneurship training helps students develop a deeper understanding of global challenges such as climate change, socio-economic inequality, gender bias and peacebuilding. Using the Human-Centered Design Thinking Model, BUILD Design Challenges helps learners not only improve their academic outcomes and gain access to a wide range of future academic and professional opportunities, but it also develops their sense of empathy and compassion, learning to work respectfully with others. BUILD ignites the power of youth in under-resourced communities to build career success, entrepreneurial mindsets, and opportunity.
BUILD
ATHLETICS AND PHYSICAL FITNESS
The Legacy Sport Park is a state-of-the-art multi-sport family entertainment sports park to be located in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Situated on an expansive site, the sports park will provide a variety of playing fields and indoor team sports facilities designed to the latest athletic technology standards. Our Park offers an opportunity for athletes of all ages and levels of proficiency to develop their skills in soccer, softball, baseball, basketball, sand volleyball, indoor volleyball, pickelball, and others. The amateur athlete will be training and competing on the same facilities used by the professionals. The facility is designed to encompass a lifetime from our daycare facilities to senior sports programming.
LEGACY SPORTS
MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
This 78,000 SF, two-story mental wellness facility accommodates up to 96 single-bed rooms in four units, and has been designed to facilitate state-of-the-art behavioral healthcare. In addition to patient rooms, a variety of social and activity spaces, and staff areas, the building features indoor and outdoor recreation therapy spaces, a service kitchen and central dining room. The design focuses on creating a welcoming, familiar, and home-like environment within an existing campus circulation scheme. while always keeping the safety of patients, staff, visitors, and the surrounding neighborhood as the foremost consideration in every decision, from site planning to detailing and product selection. The building’s design has been optimized to maximize daylighting of social and activity spaces, as well as corridors that exceed the performance of ASHRAE 90.1 by 10%.
BANNER BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
CHAMPION OF THE ARTS
SEDONA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
This project included the renovation of the existing auditorium into a state-of-the art performing arts center to seat 750 people. This performing arts center is not only used by the District for its events, but is used as a premier performing arts facility for the City of Sedona. A new rigging system with 20 lines was designed to offer the renters the opportunity to integrate multiple back-drops for large productions. The stage is outfitted with an easy to dismantle orchestra pit cover. The addition of the lobby is a two-story volume that captures the mystique beauty of the Sedona Red Rocks. The performing arts space is specifically designed with variable acoustics to allow the space to be used for music and drama productions. The facility is also designed to be a LEED-Silver certified building.
REPURPOSE AND REVITALIZE
Veritas Preparatory Academy, a founding member of the prestigious Great Hearts Academies, serves 6th-12th grade students by providing the finest liberal arts education possible for families in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Offering a challenging yet rewarding curriculum focused on the development of deep appreciation for the true, the good, and the beautiful. Embodying those values in design, the Veritas facility was born through the renovation of a vacant Motorolla Adminstrative Building. While adaptive reuse projects require careful site selection and attention to due diligence, the potential benefits to both communities and school systems are substantial. A revitalized ghost box can spur tangible impacts on community development, reduce landfill impacts, reduce sprawl, preserve greenfield sites, and promote recycling on a large scale. And the Intangible For schools, adaptive reuse of these buildings may offer significant time savings in providing much-needed school facilities, and generate opportunities for innovative design, state-of-the-art educational facilities, and inspiring spaces in which to teach and learn.
MOTOROLLA CONVERSION