Project Data:

Firm Name:              PJHM Architects

Completion Date:     7/31/2020

Square Footage:      120000

Building Use:           6-12 Public School

Location:                 Tustin, CA

Project Description:

The project began with a cutting-edge educational specification. The concepts outlined within this document aimed to create a campus that establishes interactive collaborative spaces, which implement Technology-Innovation-Design-Entrepreneurship (T.I.D.E.). The education experience is no longer confined to classroom walls, students will have the ability to collaborate as groups or study independently, campus wide. Following this new educational model, a highly collaborative planning process ensued. A design committee was formed that included representatives from school administrators, staff, and teachers within the district as well as the project architects. The topic of budget was consistently at the discussion table. A construction management firm worked in parallel with the design team through collaborative preconstruction processes, extracting analytical data from the projects BIM software. This provided instantaneous feedback to the design team on cost, material quantities, scheduling, and overall design audits.

The project site is flanked by two iconic structures, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Air Station (M.C.A.S.) North and South blimp hangars. The hangars were constructed shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor and have the honor of being the largest wood framed structures ever built with over 2 million board feet of lumber used due to wartime rationing of steel. Additionally, the hangars were added to the National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

+Each hangar is seventeen stories tall, 300 feet wide, over 1,000 feet long.

The design acknowledges and celebrates its historic neighbors with outstanding features such as:

+All wood framed construction.
+Parabolic roof assembly features three-point hinged glued-laminated timber.
+Parabolic trellis assembly features structural round tube steel.
+Longitudinal skylights.
+Parabolic window walls

Additionally, the exterior panelized cladding was influenced by the iconic hangar bay doors panel cladding. Lastly, the parabolic roof gives the appearance of a seamless transition between building envelope and rooftop equipment screens.

The design celebrates the multiple use of one space, capable of accommodating individual, small group, and large group instruction both indoors and outdoors.

+ Academic buildings feature a six-classroom + commons area module consisting of science, math, language arts, elective classrooms.
+ Student Commons integrate small group study rooms for personalized study.
+ T.I.D.E. Classroom and the Student Amphitheater offers flexible capacity for career technical education instructional space, keynote speakers, academic competitions, large group instruction and student rallies.

Tustin Legacy is a new 1,600-acre master planned community that defines itself by service, innovation, and the entrepreneurial spirit. The development will house restaurants, historic landmarks, retail, parks, neighborhoods, and innovative businesses with a goal to cultivate connection, alliance, and innovation.

The space provides students with refuge to study, collaborate, and recreate.

+ Campus incorporates both middle school and high school students.
+ Seamless integration of outdoor learning area with indoor study spaces that create unconfined classrooms.
+ Elevated pedestrian walkway interconnects all buildings, serves as a easily identifiable pathway and sense of direction.

Lastly, the configuration produces a highly efficient use of programed space, reducing non-educational area such as corridors and foyers.

Both resource and water management for the campus was at the forefront of design.

+ All wood framed construction, a widely available, renewable raw material product as well as a historical connection to its neighboring M.C.A.S. hangars.
+ All non-play field landscaping utilizes drought tolerant landscape and drip irrigation systems.
+ Playfields and parking lots double as water collection and filtration areas.

C.O.T.E. | Committee on the Environment

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