Planning 2017-06-22 COMPLETE AGENDA PACKET

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Building Design The additions expand the academic wing to the north and east, and the activity wing to the east and north. The existing street - facing brick fapades of the wings will remain unchanged; the additions are connected but designed in a contrasting building style, with generally different materials. The academic wing addition is recessed from the street - facing brick fapade by 20 feet. Precast concrete will form an ivory - colored base, matching the ivory base of the brick wing adjacent. The windows also take their form from the existing brick building. The brick fapade has windows that are rectangular in shape, divided horizontally above the midpoint and grouped in sets of four. The proposed addition has windows of similar design, but grouped in sets of six. There is modulation in the STEAM addition's north fapade as learning studios project and recess alternately. While the classrooms are modulated building elements, the roofline is not modulated. The roof projects in a flat line, forming sheltered recessed space where learning studios are set back and flush to the building wall where learning studios jut northward. The academic wing addition is finished with metal panels and cement fiber panels in dark grey and rust colors. Dark grey fiber cement panels applied with vertical seams forms the bulk of the building's exterior, with rust - colored fiber cement panels applied on the exterior of the recessed learning studios. Light - colored metal panels visually divide the first and second stories. The activities wing expansion takes much of its form and materials from the academic wing building expansion design. The roofline is flat, and aligns with the bottom of the gable of the existing brick building's peaked roofline. The auxillary gym is finished with fiber cement panels of dark grey, dark blue, and rust. Windows on the southern fapade divide the dark grey fiber board panels with vertical seams from the dark blue panels in a different panel shape, and are roughly aligned with the second -story windows of the brick building. On the east side of the gym, the dark grey panels cover the top 2 /3rds of the fapade, with rust panels on the bottom. Long, rectangular windows inset in thin vertical panels of light- colored metal. These panels are aligned at different intervals in the dark grey part of the building than in the rust paneled lower portion of the fapade. Enclosing the open courtyard, building additions at the entry to the school are largely glass windows on the first story, with accents of grey metal panels forming the connection to the ends of the academic and activity wings. On the second story, a sunshade will be applied to the existing skybridge. Metal paneling will frame the second story above the skybridge. The easternmost fapade of the academic building, and the expansions along the activities wing and behind the S. 144th Street fapade mix and match elements from the STEAM addition, auxillary gym, and courtyard entry described above. 11 13