Project Data:

Completion Date:     8/13/2021

Square Footage:      120000

Building Use:           Public School 6-12

Design Architect:      Thomas W. Kruse, PJHM Architects

Project Description:

The project aimed to create a unique educational experience that embodies the following:

-It complements and celebrates design features of two 1942 historic engineering landmarks, the two massive Marine Corps Air Stations (M.C.A.S.) that housed airships during WW II.

-It facilitates a project-based learning approach that accommodates students in grades 6-12 with a focus on Technology, Innovation, Design, and Entrepreneurship. It offers educational pathways in business management, marketing, engineering, manufacturing and product development, and media arts and design.

-It fortifies the school's guiding principles: Collaboration, Personalization, Relevance, and Partnerships.

As a result, the campus extracts and distills iconic forms. It respects color and material selections of its historic neighbors and revitalizes lost forms from previous generations.

Secondly, the campus offers rapid flexibility with programed space and use, and it provides an atmosphere that equips students with the foundational skills to assist them as the business leaders of tomorrow.

Lastly, It provides an ever important link between the region's past wartime history and its future as a cutting-edge educational hub.

Integration
The project site is flanked by two iconic structures. The M.C.A.S. hangars were constructed shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor and have the honor of being the largest wood framed structures built.

The Legacy Magnet Academy design acknowledges and celebrates its historic neighbors with features such as:
-All wood-framed-construction entirely clad with aircraft aluminum paneling.
-Parabolic roof features three-point hinged glued-laminated timber arches.
-Open air trellis utilizes parabolically curved/interlaced hollow structural steel with circular cross- sections.
-Longitudinal skylight systems pay tribute to the M.C.A.S. daylighting design.

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.

Equitable Communities
An educational beacon for the community, the facility has capacity to host educational visitors, community events and gatherings, as well as support community members beyond the 12th grade.

Providing students with a refuge to study, collaborate, and recreate at all turns, the campus incorporates both middle and high school students with seamless integration of outdoor learning labs and indoor study spaces that create unconfined classrooms. An elevated pedestrian walkway interconnects all buildings, providing an efficient and secure pathway between spaces and grades. Additionally, the configuration produces a highly efficient use of programed space, reducing non-educational area such as corridors and foyers. The campus is designed for all abilities, ages, and social and economic standing.

Ecology
For several decades, the project site was utilized as military base. Most of the surrounding ecosystem was cleared for military operation. The project re-introduced drought-tolerant, native planting that has restored the local ecosystem to it previous military use. The project site is now home to several species of birds, including hawks, geese, falcons, and owls. The design minimizes the negative impacts on birds and other animals by use of dark-sky compliant site lighting.

Water
The project incorporates placement of 637,650 square feet of drought tolerant landscaping, complete with highly efficient subterranean irrigation systems.