The Project
A new state-of-the-art high school on a redeveloped city-owned school site by KIPP DC, a local prominent public charter school. The project aims to provide a new high school as well as a modernized Recreation Center for the community. As part of community integration, the site will also include spaces available for public meetings, community gatherings, and events.
This new high school is projected to have about 900 students in grades 9-12 and will offer high quality educational opportunities as well as extracurricular activities and support services. The space will include a running track, playing fields with built-in spectator seating, a concessions building, and an outdoor classroom located within a bio retention area. The school is four stories and approximately 111,000 square feet.
Structural features
The structure is steel framed and includes unique features such as: a 79-foot clear span story truss supported by two cantilevered story trusses carrying portions of the 3rd floor, 4th floor, and roof framing, a two-story theater with elevated balcony seating, a two-story height gym with 96-foot clear span bar joists supporting a green roof, a stepped rooftop courtyard for students, interior tiered seating in the main entry lobby and gym balcony, and a cantilevered tapered colonnade canopy. The upper two floor of the classroom bar are rotated relative to the building below creating cantilevers on 3 sides of the building and numerous column transfers. EB also performed the structural design for the site landscaping, including numerous retaining walls to create the sunken football field and running track.
