Reflect High School Adaptive Reuse

reflect high school

amira samiy adaptive reuse studio fall 2017

Project Description

Adaptive Reuse

My aim in this project is to design a high school that fosters learning by manipulating spatial qualities and carefully selecting the amenities it provides. I considered principles of environmental psychology concerning lighting, indoor air quality, and access to nature to deliver a space that students can use as a springboard for learning. To this same end, I hope the create a space that supports a variety of learning types and encourage parent/guardian and community member involvment in student learning.

Adaptive reuse, the act of renovating and repurposing an existing building or system, is a way of recycling the built environment. As opposed to building new on an undeveloped site, building on greyfield sites, as is the case with adaptive reuse, comes with many ecological benefits. By not demolishing an existing structure, its embodied energy is maintained on the site, replacing the need for as many new materials and transportation of those materials in the renovation process as a new building. Additionally to the environmental benefits to adaptive reuse projects, renovating a building with historical significance provides an opportunity to celebrate an artifact that is the product of local cultural, financial, political, and geographic histories.

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Contents Research and Development Context Site LEED

Historic Precedent Concept

Lighting effect Stacking

School Design Considerations

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Design Proposal Exterior

Lower Level

1st Floor RCP

2nd Floor

3rd Floor

4th Floor Millwork

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Research and Development

Context Secondary Education in Rochester Buffalo

Syracuse Rochester

Utica

“Big Five� cities with the largest school districts in NY state

Rochester, NY has consistently been ranked lowest for its average high school graduation rate out of the largest five cities school districts (Big Five) in New York state.

In 2016, the graduation rate (June) was of 47.5% with a dropout rate of 24%.

Yonkers New York City

There is a clear need for change within the local education system. While the rates for 2017 show a 2% increase from 2016 year, much can and should still be done to address the lack of academic attainment in Rochester.

Demographics NY Hispanic or Latino White, non Hispanic or Latino Black or African American

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14.8%

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NY 7.4%

Bachelor’s degree or higher (25+ yr old)

With a disability (65- yr old)

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Demographics Monroe County school districts

$54,492 Median Household Income for Monroe County in 2016

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Median household income

$59,269

R $30,960

As of 2016, Rochester had a population of 210,461 people.

33.5% of city residents are designated as people living in poverty.

Rochester City School District Charlotte HS

Public High Schools

Marshall HS

Private/Charter High Schools Community Development Centers

Edison HS

(non-recreation only)

Genessee River $34,489 Median Household Income (Rochester City - West, 2016) $28,901 Median Household Income (Rochester City - East, 2016) Building Site

Jefferson HS Freddie Thomas HS World of Inquiry n. 58 East Upper HS School of the Arts James Monroe HS School Without Walls Joseph Wilson HS

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Business Grocery Beechwood Neighborhood CBD Railroad Track Highway

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Site

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Reflect High School Building Entrances

Proposed Site Plan

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Parking Extensive Green Roof

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LEED

LEED ID+C Accreditation Prerequisites and Credits applicable to project.

Location & Transportation Regional Priority Materials & Resources Storage & Collection of Recyclables Construction & Demolition Waste Management Planning Long-Term Commitment Interiors Life-Cycle Impact Reduction Building Product Disclosure & Optimization -- Environmental Product Declarations Building Product Disclosure & Optimization -- Material Ingredients Construction & Demolition Waste Management

Water Efficiency Indoor Water Use Reduction Indoor Water Use Credit Indoor Environmental Quality Minimum Indoor Air Quality Performance Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) Control Enhanced Indoor Air Quality Performance Low-Emitting Materials Construction Indoor Air Quality Management Plan Indoor Air Quality Assessment Thermal Comfort Interior Lighting Daylight Quality Views Acoustic Performance

Energy & Atmosphere Fundamental Commissioning & Verification Minimum Energy Performance Fundamental Refrigerant Management Optimize Energy Performance Advanced Energy Metering Enhanced Refrigerant Management

Model of existing building

Historic Precendent The Beech Nut factory in Canajoharie, NY (shown below) was one of three factory buildings owned by the Beech Nut Packing Company in the 1930’s. One of the remaining two buildings is the site at hand.

There is a definite resemblance in the plant at Canajoharie and the one in Rochester. The façades are

Beech Nut factory in Canajoharie

characterized by the same cement structure and large rectangular window openings that puncture it.

As is visible in the first image, the windows at the Canajoharie plant location are single-pane rolled steel windows, so it may be assumed that the same would have adorned the exterior of Rochester plant as well.

Project Site, Beech Nut in Rochester

The windows are iconic not only of the Beech Nut corporation, but also of most mid-1900’s industrial/ factory construction. Below are pictures from a E.R. Durkee & Co. spice factory in Elmhurt, IL. Similarly to Beech Nut factories, these buildings also feature single-pane rolled steel windows.

Given the historical significance of these industrial windows as design features, I hope to bring them back to the building site and use their distrincting asethetic as a motif in my redesign of the interior spaces in the building.

Concept Reflect High School

Reflection

Reflect Charter High School’s philosophy is anchored in creating a healthy place that promotes learning and productivity, supporting a variety of learning types, and encourageing parent/guardian and community member involvement in student learning. It’s primary goal is to increase graduation rates and student success through learning and reflection.

The verb “reflect” can be seen here as synonymous with thinking or with manifesting. With this word, I have sought to convey the idea of understanding coupled with the application or interpretation of acquired knowedlge. This concept word further highlights the lighting effect that is central to the school building’s design.

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Mission Statement

reflect high school

- Promote community engagement and activism, as well as health and wellbeing.

- Create a high school that supports students’ education, engagement and empowerment by offering a venue for active and collaborative learning allowing students to engage with a variety of subject matter and learning types.

Goals Statements 1. Promote the engagement of parents/guardians and community members in student learning.

2. Provide spaces tailored to various types of learning.

3. Promote collaboration between students.

4. Recruit and retain diverse faculty and staff members.

5. Maintain a positive, safe, and healthy school environment.

6. Provide space for community congregation and community access to health services.

7. Acknowledge and protect the historic value of the building site.

8. Be resilient to spatial or teaching changes

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Lighting Effect Goal Draw attention and importance to the acheivement of graduating Effect While the rest of the building is meant to manifest the concept of reflection, 89 the lighting feature will focus on refraction: at the time of graduation, light will be 49 refracted in the large gathering room.

Meaning The incident light ray represents the education provided by Reflect High School faculty and the socio-cultural influences in the students’ lives. As light enters the prism, its course deviates slightly, respresenting students’ learning. The diffuse 89 the light emitted from the prism on the other side symbolizes the translation 64 of knowledge acquired into practice, and into the future that students will take with them after graduation.

azimuth altitude

azimuth altitude

Window Selection Exterior windows are custom designed to emulate the original rolled-steel casement design.

The dimensions of the panes were determined to permit the transmission of incident light for the lighting effect.

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Incident sun angle noon in mid June

incident light mirror mullion prism window pane

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incident light

Scale: 1/32’’ = 1’-0’’

Scale: 1/6’’ = 1’-0’’

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Stacking

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Meeting Room

Teacher Lounge

Unisex Storage

Art Studio

Classroom

Classroom

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Skylight

Primary Circulation

Skylight Primary Circulation

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Vertical Circulation

Supportive Vertical Circulation

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Extensive Green Roof with skylights

Student Lounge/ Study Space

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Library

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Meeting Counceling Center Rooms

Dark Room

Black Box Theater

Kitchen/Back of House

Loading Trash Storage Dock

Trash Storage

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School Design Considera Better buildings mean better social climate, which means improved student performance, attendence, higher gradution rates, lower suspension rates, and less delinquent behavior.

Notes from research articles collected and read for this project

Social climate - social climate in an acadmic environment, as it is shaped by the physical environment, affects academic acheivement (spatial design affects social atmosphere, which affects performance).

- students with a more positive perception of school climate report higher GPAs (these effects are strongest among single-parent and homeless students).

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- positive perception of school climate correlated with higher atendance, lower suspension rates, less delinquent behavior, and higher graduation rates.

tions Building Condition & Maintenance

Lighting

- poor aesthetic and negative structural attribues correlated with poor student learning and acheivement.

- blue-enriched white light, especially in the morning (+ circadian lighting systems) has acute and long-term positve effects on cognitive processing (increased concentration, better performance and fewer errors on cognitive tasks).

- good school building predicts student perceived self-worth, perceived academic competency, academic achievement, and self-efficacy.

- displayed student artwork and positive classroom dÊcor associated with students’ increased feelings of self-worth.

- variable lighting lessens fidgettiness/ restlessness and improves social behaviors.

Koji Sakai, Arch Daily

- daylighting associated with high test scores (secrete hormones tat increase concentration).

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Educational Practices

Design Strategies

- individual attention to child - small group working together - increasing pupil participation - use of teaching aid - reduction of outdoor distraction - proper lighting - good audibility - use of reference materials

- adequate classroom space - moveable furniture - flexibility of space - small group spaces for focused attention - appropiate lighting and acoustics - storage space for reference materials - strategies for glare reduction - plantings to reduce outdoor distraction

- opportunity to work with one’s hands - prepare charts, models, etc.

- art, dance, drama, music programs - participate in gardening activities - opportunity to experiment - relationship to the outdoors - community integration - develop cleaning habits - use a variety of learning materials - development of a questioning attitude

- storage for tools & equipment - storage for brooms, dusters, etc.

- display of student work - durable spaces and FFE - provision of scientific equipment furniture set up for experiments - adequate lighting and ventilation - models, charts, graphs - craft equipment and storage - chalk boards/bulletin boards

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Design Proposal

Exterior

My goal with the exterior branding of Reflect High School was to evoke the concept of reflection in the landscaping through the use of elements that create reflections instead of relying on a vertical display of the logo. The only allusion to it is in the triangular shape of the reflecting pool.

permeable pavement with broken mirror pieces

reflecting pool rain garden

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A trellis affords a visual continuation of the greenery in front of the building and compliments the adjacent greenhouse.

The school logo here is the only instance of explicit exterior branding; this was done to emphasize that the school emphasizes alternative forms of learning and thus recognizes different ways of perceiving elements of the physical environment, such s branding.

Covered exterior seating offers a place for outoor eating and an area where students can wait for busses and parents.

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Lower Level Whiteboard

Cafeteria

TV for school updates and student work slideshow

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1st floor High windows provide more diffuse light which, in conjugunction with the high ceilings, is conjectured to promote creativity Private workspace Individual and small group workspaces Short central bookcases provide some visual and acoustic privacy, yet allow for prospect throughout full space for security

Counseling Center This center offers students individual counseling to help them discover their personal strengths and determine which learning techniques best suit them based on an initial evauation of their personal learning style(s).

Lighting Feature A system of mirrored surfaces and a prism will cast a rainbow in the theater on graduation to enhance to celebration

Book share bookself A place for students, faculty, and staff to exchange books and other learning materials Learning styles can be one or a combination of the following: - Visual - Aural - Read/Write - Kinesthetic

Window wall Interior corridor will become dynamic by offering a direct view into the adjacent greenhouse Librarian’s desk A dedicated desk in the spce is provided with a clear vantage of all angles of the library

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Feature lighting at end of hallway Donor recognition list Exhibit area for student work with tackable wall surface Locked storage in cabinetry

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2nd floor Teknion, Thesis Learning Table Eames & Saarinen Organic Chair

Hollis+Morris, TRIA pendant Vitra, George Nelson Star Clock Hanging Leather Strap Planter DIY

Baleri Italia, Tato Ottomans Showroom Finalnd, Pilke 28 Stand

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3nd floor Gladiator, Height-Adjustable Hardwood Workbench

Interface, WW880 Sisal Loom

Rutherford Audio, Artnovion Alps Diffuser

Aarevalo, Stealth Pendant Lamp

Teknion, Focus Wall Polished Concrete Floor

Office Star Pneumatic Drafting Chair

Herman Miller, Carper Staking Chair

Skylight Reconfigurable Furniture In each non-dedicated classroom, furniture is moveable to support a variety of work types

Recycling Unit

Teacher’s Desk A desk is provided for teachers in each classroom. This encourages faculty to be more actively engaged with students when teaching

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Slanted dropped ceiling references the concept of relfection Tackable acoustic wall made from 100% post-consumer recycled material, Tac.Wall

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Rolling individual desks allow for the easy recofiguration of classrooms

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Low bookshleves allong window walls provide extra classroom storage space

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4th floor Artifort, 905 2.5 seat 2 cushion sofa

Inspiration Images

Nanimarquina, Medina Rug

Steelcase, Emu Round Seating

Crate and Barrel, Slant Light GreyPlanters

Private Lounge Space Stepping Stone Path connects various lounge spaces amongst the foliage of the greenroof Computer Area Kitchen Zone

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Millwork Glass panes resembling exterior windows’

Oak painted black to resemble rolled steel windows on building exterior

Shelves made of mirror reflect light and books on the shelves

Bookcase and student book exchange

1 1/4’’ x 1 1/4’’ solid oak painted black 7/8’’ plywood with oak veneer base solid 3/4’’ oak painted black 3 1/2’’ x 1 1/2’’ stud

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Amira Samiy Adaptive Reuse Studio Fall 2017