Accomplishing the final planned improvements of the District’s Long-Range Facility Master Plan, the 36,000 SF replacement 100 Building is home to Bainbridge High School’s Career and Technical Education (CTE) program, which includes Engineering, Music, Culinary Arts, and Fine Arts. More than just an opportunity to showcase their existing programs, this project was a critical opportunity for the high school to re-invent program diversity, broaden student interest, and invigorate community participation.
The school’s vision was to create a place of creativity, innovation and experimentation that enhanced opportunities for “cross-pollination” and serendipitous collaboration, encouraging new, future-forward curriculum to emerge in spaces that walk the line between being highly specialized and extremely agile.
The design provides a series of visually and physically linked learning labs immediately adjacent and visible from the dining commons. Flexibility is enhanced by carefully considering connectivity, allowing programs to grow or contract as needed to meet student interest and industry pressure, while allowing both cross-pollination and interdisciplinary access to labs that support a broad spectrum of hands-on problem solving. The new CTE and arts learning environments are capable of responding to changing equipment, technology and instructional pedagogies, and have the ability to enable learning in groups of varying sizes; providing a proximate mix of programmed and unprogrammed spaces to come together to create an agile environment for learning.
Relocating the 200 Building’s kitchen and commons into the new 100 Building allowed the 200 Building to transform into a 370-seat theater which provides hands-on learning opportunities for students studying all aspects of the Performing Arts.
The theater is also now closer to the perimeter of campus, improving student and community access.
