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Building committee reviews site and design options, discusses CTE integration and geothermal/solar systems
Summary
Design team presented five site and building schemes for the Salem High School project, discussed integration of CTE across academic neighborhoods, phasing and potential use of ground-source (geo-exchange) and photovoltaic systems. No option was selected; options will be refined during the PSR phase.
Project designers presented a set of alternative site and building schemes for Salem High School, describing differences in footprint, phasing, circulation and how Career and Technical Education (CTE) spaces would be integrated with academic classrooms.
Designers described multiple schemes presented in the meeting: a "mirror" (also referred to in discussion as "boomerang" or "ad-reno mirror") that reuses and stitches the existing field house into a new wing; a "loop" scheme that builds a new structure outside the existing footprint; a "wrapped" option that organizes CTE and performance spaces wrapped by classroom neighborhoods; and a compressed "S" or "Salem" scheme. Presenters said each option has trade-offs for access, loading, CTE adjacencies, daylighting and construction staging.
CTE placement and pedagogy were a recurring focus.…
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