Menifee Union School District A visual and performing arts campus, integrating the arts with all learning subjects.
Menifee Valley Middle School Reconstruction
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Menifee Union School District Menifee, CA
Anticipated Completion Summer 2021 $29,500,000 55,000 SF 26 Acres 800 Students
Design Team Architecture: BakerNowicki Design Studio, LLP Structural: KNA Consulting Engineers Mechanical: MA Engineers, Inc. Electrical: Johnson Consulting Engineers, Inc. Civil: SWS Engineering Landscape GroundLevel Landscape Architects District Executive Team: Ambur Borth Jim Sellers Tim Grangruth Kevin Feddock
Assistant Superintendent, Business Services Facilities Director Director of Maintenance and Operations Maintenance Supervisor
Thought Exchange Results: Menifee Union School District
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IMPORTANT SKILLS FOR STUDENT SUCCESS
KEY PROGRAMS/OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENT SUCCESS
PRIMARY CONSIDERATIONS WHEN CHOOSING A SCHOOL
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Perseverance and Work Ethic Respect for Others Character and Leadership
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Design Symposium
In an effort to engage the Menifee community, a digital survey called a “Thought Exchange� was used to create conversation about the potential vision for the District and Menifee Valley Middle School. The Thought Exchange produced significant participation, whose results are shown to the left. The overall results of the thought exchange led to the creation of a new focus for the campus in the Visual and Performing Arts.
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CAMPUS FOCUS: Visual & Performing Arts Following the Thought Exchange, the district hired Architects from the BakerNowicki Design Studio to facilitate a community engagement process called a Design Symposium. This Design Symposium gathered the input from teachers, staff, administrators, and community to generate a facilities master plan that would serve as the basis of future work on the Menifee Valley Middle School Campus. Proposed scope and phases shown later in this book originated from the ideas and vision generated from this community process.
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The project site is located within the heart of Menifee, California in a low density residential neighborhood. Menifee, as a whole, is experiencing a period of growth and increases in student enrollment district-wide. The project was first imagined as a portable replacement project to replace the more than 40 portables currently used to house most of the student population. Future enrollment is expected to increase over the next decade requiring the construction of additional facilities to accommodate growth. Final design enrollment is targeted at 1200 students. The campus is one of the oldest campuses in the district. It is served by a septic sewer system. The local historical society, housed in an adjacent facility, provided some historical photographs of the region as a context to the legacy of the community.
Proposed Sewer Point of Connection
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Near the site are agricultural areas, residential communities, and planned residential developments. Located to the south is the local fire station. North and East of the campus is Paloma High School and the freeway.
ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS Due to the age of the campus and lack of surrounding development, the campus is currently supported by a Septic System with a leach field located in the play field area. This leach field is located ABOVE the buildings, requiring sewage to be pumped up to the leach field level. This system presents a number of air quality and maintenance concerns for the site and district. As a component of future projects, the district is evaluating connecting to a new sewer line located due east of the project site. The map above indicates the site and the proposed point of connection.
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PREVAILING WINDS The wind directions are strongly influenced by the local Microclimate, with a cooler coastal breeze from the Southwest, and the warmer Santa Ana Winds from the North East.
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listed as a Mediterranean climate or Dry-Summer Subtropical. As a city, Menifee experiences 263 sunshine days and only 35 days with measurable precipitation annually. The period of April through November is warm to hot and dry with average high temperatures of 83 - 101°F and lows of 32 - 50°F, though in the summer, temperatures can easily reach above 100, and occasionally above 105. The period of November through March is somewhat rainy. At times, during the Winter, large dust storms start to form due to the large mass of humidity, and low, and flat land that is there. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Menifee,_California)
VEHICULAR CONGESTION The current street improvements
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Collaboration: To facilitate new trends in collaborative learning environments, planning for the campus was structured around creating active outdoor spaces that tie together multiple types of teaching spaces. This helps the campus to use all spaces for learning and socialization. These collaborative environments can be seen in the following: • •
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Outdoor “Main Street” Collaboration areas allow for Small and Medium Scale GroupLearning. Classrooms are grouped into academic clusters with primary entry points facilitate identity, allow for branding, host larger scale group instruction, and allow for socialization. Flex Labs designed around a Maker Space model allow for use by Science, Arts, & Exploratory Learning. Covered Outdoor Learning Areas, double as socialization spaces. “String Plans” Allow for Max flexibility as programs change. Paired Classrooms allow for shared teaching in select areas.
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Symposium: Following symposium discussions, flexible, collaborative, and adaptive learning environments were identified as a high priority for campus organization.
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Finger Plan vs. the String Plan: The district requested the capacity to have age or grade specific academic clusters, but also desired more flexibility in the distribution of classrooms to different grades as enrollment fluxuates over time.
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Flexibly allows expansion and contraction of communities as enrollment changes over time Outdoor Collaboration spaces can be used to create nodes for identity, entry, and socialization . Increased supervision Less Blind Corners Less Use of Total Site Area Less Exterior Envelope
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ENROLLMENT
Menifee Valley Middle School Target Enrollment
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Phasing SCHEDULE SUMMARY The project is broken into three separate phases to accelerate construction: Phase 1: Construction and connection of a Sewer Line to Garbani Design, EMWD Review and Approval Complete: August 2019 Construction: September 2019 through November 2019 Phase 2: Hardcourt Expansion, Interim Housing, Campus Utility Improvements Design, DSA Review and Approval Complete: June 2019 Construction: July 2019 through November 2019 District Classroom Move: Winter Break 2019/20 Phase 3: Construction of New Campus Structures, Site Improvements Design, DSA Review and Approval Complete: December 2019 Construction of New Campus Structures, Site Improvements: January 2020 through May 2021 District Occupies New Improvements: July 2021
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LIMIT OF WORK 1. Music & Choir Building 2. Renovated Stage 3. Renovated Locker Rooms: Renovation of existing lockers, ADA upgrades, finish improvements, AV improvements, Washer/Dryer Addition
4. New Classrooms Permanent, New, State of the Art Classrooms with abundant natural light, wireless technology, and energy efficient lighting systems.
5. New Library Large, open, flexible plan configuration, abundant natural
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6. Flex Labs Active learning spaces, with adjacent outdoor learning spaces, large operable doors, polished concrete floors, abundant natural light, multiple sinks, durable surfaces, storage, and acoustical treatments. Optimized for use in the Arts, Music, or Sciences.
7. New Academic Courtyard Permanent, New, State of the Art Classrooms with abundant natural light, wireless technology, and energy efficient lighting systems.
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Site Master Plan To address the rapidly changing needs of educational environments, academic spaces have been organized into clusters. These clusters allow the opportunity to equip classrooms with a variable range of spaces to accommodate multiple scales of instruction and collaboration.
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1 Outdoor Amphitheater: (future work) hosting full campus events, promotions, and student performances. Expected to support the Visual and Performing Arts identity and activities. 2 Academic Quad: An academic and socialization space filled with shade and seat walls for small and medium group gatherings. The space will be easily supervised by perimeter buildings through ample glazing. 3 Main Street Collaboration Spaces: primary circulation routes with widened pathways to allow for small scale gatherings for outdoor collaborative work groups. The spaces are passively supervised by glazing in classrooms.
4 Outdoor Laboratories, outdoor work areas adjacent to flex labs that allow for an overflow space for lab activities. Large panelized doors open onto each space allowing for a natural extension of the instruction space to the outdoor.
6 Civic Entry Court: Entry spaces that allow for student queuing and waiting on either side of the secure fence line. This provides a natural location for supervision by staff before and after the bell in necessary transition times.
5 Pedestrian Axis: Each pedestrian axis connects from north to south and east to west. They provide the primary pedestrian connection between separate portions of campus. Several seat walls are located on the perimeter of these axes to allow students to socialize and “see and be seen.�
7 Lunch Shelter Extension: These sun shade elements provide a secondary shade location and staging area for students in transition to and from lunch, allowing staff to control the transition of students between lunch periods with separate areas.
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View the campus through your web browser in a simulated threedimensional environment that allows you to walk through, in real time, an virtual illustration of the campus concept.
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1. Parent Drop Off 2. Existing Admin Building 3. Main Campus Entry 4. New Library 5. Repaint the Existing Campus
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ABOUT BAKERNOWICKI DESIGN STUDIO The BakerNowicki Design Studio team offers over 25 years of specialized services in the design of educational and municipal facilities. Headquartered in San Diego, California, the firm was formed by in 2011 by Jon Baker, FAIA, Richard Nowicki, AIA and Buddy Gessel, AIA. The firm’s principals have worked in partnership for over 15 years and have successfully completed over 100 projects for dozens of public and private educational clients. BakerNowicki Design Studio is dedicated to innovative designs based on conceptual approaches that integrate context, form and experience. Each project is a synergy of the idealized (desire) and the circumstantial (need). Each project presents an opportunity to integrate environments and people. Services are tailored to respond to the specific needs of clients and circumstances. The ability to identify unique solutions to complex project challenges has led to many innovative concepts that address programmatic needs, solve challenging project delivery issues and meet tough budget limitations. Essential to our creative process is the design of spaces that meet the needs of those for whom they are intended. Our desire is to design facilities that will provide memorable and positive experiences to all .
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