Bryan Adams High School

Design team
Lisa Lamkin, FAIA, LE Fellow (Principal); Anne Hildenbrand, AIA, ALEP (Principal); Chris Sano, AIA, LEED AP BD+C (Design Director); Abby Hiles, AIA (Senior Project Architect)

The Bryan Adams High School campus redesign nurtures tomorrow’s leaders by enhancing access and fostering a sense of identity that honors the school’s history and local heritage. Through state-of-the-art facilities, the school offers flexible spaces for private and collaborative learning, tech-integrated labs, leadership programming, early college accreditation, technical education, performance spaces, and fully accessible cutting-edge sports facilities. Ambitious and forward-thinking, the school creates unparalleled opportunities for a diverse student body to excel by unifying all school choice pathways on one campus.

The addition of three major buildings—performing arts, athletics, and administration and classroom—on the historically significant campus expands the campus, providing space for special education classrooms, small group nooks, and makerspaces supporting STEM and vocational learning. Acoustic enhancements create an environment conducive to concentration and comfort for diverse dispositions and learning styles.

Natural light floods through windows, drawing light into classrooms and providing long sightlines of old-growth oaks and rolling hills. Furthermore, wayfinding systems and a proper wayfinding strategy became vital components to the well-being and safety of the new campus.

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