The addition to and renovation of the high school was designed to resolve a number of functional and aesthetic issues. Programmatically, the new addition provides additional general classroom space, (main level) a new learning resource center, (upper lever) and unfinished space for future classroom expansion (lower level) . These spaces were placed in the new addition to provide for easy, secure night time access for adult education. The addition also provides circulation between previously separated sections of the existing building; the newer physical education areas and the main building entrance. The spaces left vacant by the LRC relocation were then renovated into new science labs. The adjacent existing science labs were also renovated under this project.

Aesthetically, the school board wanted a modern sympathetic addition that would visually combine the desperate existing building components at the front of the school while creating an exciting, highly visible, well defined new main building entry. The school board and the administration also wanted to take advantage of expansive prime view to the south and east. The new addition's overall building geometry and massing and the materials utilized achieves these goals. The curved glazed second floor LRC space draws the viewer's eyes toward the main entry which terminates the south end of the curve with a fully glazed rotunda.

The glazed second floor with its exposed steel columns and extensive roof overhangs gives the existing building a modern look and provides prime views from the LRC. The first floor building mass of the addition was designed as a modern interpretation of the existing building's single story classroom area utilizing the same brick and fenestration patterning of the existing. The glazed second floor LRC mass is set back from the masonry first floor to reduce the building's overall bulk and to relate to the existing, single story building.

The new addition and renovations to the high school meets the client's programmatic and functional needs, creates a sympathetic addition to the existing school and provides the community with an exciting, modern learning environment for the next century.

The site is a constricted, underutilized linear parcel of land along the front of the existing building. This portion of the school's land was selected because of its high visibility and relationship to existing building functions. The addition's building geometry conforms to the parcel's dimensions. Minor parking lot renovations and a new drop off area was developed to relate to the new main building entry.