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YOUR PROJECT’S FULL POTENTIAL HISTORY OF VLK ARCHITECTS Driven by innovation, purpose, and design excellence, VLK Architects is a multidisciplinary architecture firm whose practice areas include Commercial, Municipal, Education, and Automotive market sectors. With over 37 years of experience and a robust team of architects and supporting staff, VLK has the size and experience to service clients and projects of any size. Our business and project delivery processes have been recognized regionally and nationally multiple times, including Zweig Group; Building Design + Construction’s Annual Giants 300 Report; and by Architectural Record as a Top 300 Architecture Firm. Our development and commercial clients experience designs that are influenced and informed by extensive regional, national, and international experience. With offices in Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio, we have formulated deep community roots, experiences, and relationships in all of the major metropolitan areas and sub-markets of Texas.
VLK MISSION We guide clients through process, collaboration and imagination to realize exceptional environments to work, live, learn and play.
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Allen ISD STEAM Center
Project Information Year Built: 2019 Square Footage: 111,210 sf
The Allen ISD STEAM Center serves all grades throughout the district. Programs offered at the facility include engineering and robotics labs, computer labs, computer maintenance instructional programs, science and physics labs, math classrooms, and design studios for the architecture and interior design programs. An K-8 experience area will offer STEAM
programs aimed at younger students. Collaboration spaces, common areas, and huddle rooms are provided through out the facility to provide a range of spaces for groups to collaborate on projects.
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Arlington ISD Dan Dipert Career + Technical Center
Project Information Year Built: 2017 Square Footage: 167,000 sf
The design concept for AISD’s Dan Dipert Career + Technical Center is based on the vision of “Exhibiting Opportunity”; exposing students, educators and visitors to every career program the center has to offer.
The academies are organized in a manner that creates synergy between the programs. Students are both visually and physically exposed to all programs through open collaboration spaces and shared resources. The design of the building facilitates the district in optimizing the student’s path for self discovery.
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Houston ISD Energy Institute High School
Project Information Year Built: 2018 Square Footage: 160,000 sf
Energy Institute High School is the newest magnet school in the Houston Independent School District and the first “energy” school in the Nation. Project-based learning (PBL) is utilized in the pathways of the geo sciences, alternative energy, and offshore technology for this 800 student campus. Working with the community based Project Advisory Team (PAT) which includes energy sector businesses, VLK Architects and Houston ISD organized a design charrette to establish the goals, priorities, and initial design
concept for the project. The resulting concept features a campus-like setting, mimicking many of the corporate campuses where energy students visit and intern during their high school education. PBL is supported through a variety of spaces including small classrooms, project rooms, and various collaboration spaces. An outdoor courtyard is the center of the campus with a shaded tiered collaboration area and outdoor instructional spaces. The design supports a technology rich campus that is part of the PowerUp 1:1 initiative and all instructional spaces are equipped with smart interactive monitors.
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Crowley ISD Bill R. Johnson CTE Center
Project Information Year Built: 2020 Square Footage: 185,000 sf
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Crowley ISD’s Bill R Jonson CTE Center was designed to provide both students and the greater community with an innovative environment for learning. Utilizing VLK Architects’ engagement process VLK | LAUNCH®, students, parents, community members, and administrators worked together to create the initial concept of this facility. Built to provide unique fluidity of space, the campus fosters collaborative learning, an easy transition of indoor/
outdoor activity, and flexibility. Sustainable features were used throughout the building to help simulate research and development facility types across the country. The programs each have real world learning spaces, such as a hospital or emergency care clinic replica for students to gain confidence in these settings. An outdoor courtyard is located at the center of the campus with multiple collaboration spaces and outdoor instructional spaces.
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Azle ISD Azle High School Gymnasium and CTE Addition
Project Information Year Built: 2015
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The new additions to Azle High School include a 2,000seat competition gymnasium with varsity basketball and volleyball locker rooms. The Career Technology Education addition includes shops and classrooms for automotive, agriculture, industrial arts, veterinary technician, and floral programs, as well as classrooms and laboratories for health sciences.
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Katy ISD Katy High School CTE Additions and Renovations
Project Information Year Built: 2022
Additions and renovations to Katy High School to include upgraded CTE spaces designed to meet the growing needs of the CTE programs. This facility will provide a home for the existing and expanded programs currently housed in the existing high school including welding, culinary arts, horticulture, ag mechanics, floral design, photography, and manufacturing in a new two story addition.
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