Legacy Junior High School LAYTON, UTAH Project of Distinction – New Construction Middle/Junior High School VCBO Architecture 2010 Exhibition of School Planning and Architecture

Legacy Junior High School

Site Plan | COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENT The City developed a City Park adjacent to the school, further expanding the inviting open space of the facility, and allowing for greater opportunities for City/District collaborations and special events. Additionally, the site serves as a regional detention basin. The site utilizes natural and low water use landscaping to conserve water in this desert environment.

Building Entrance | COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENT Bryan Turner, AIA, Director of New Facilities for the district, states, “Legacy’s design is the result of focused collaboration between the architect, the owner, and the City. The District is progressive and forward-thinking and the design reflects our vision for the community.”

Community Entrance to Double Gymnasium | COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENT The Legacy Junior High School project serves its surrounding community as a center for public events, as an inspiring place for learning, and as an attractive focal point that identifies the community as both progressive and committed to quality. Designed as a sustainable 60-year building, Legacy’s design nods to the contextual architecture of its community, and demonstrates a hopeful optimism and positive attitude at the same time. The City of Layton partnered with the District on the cost of a double gymnasium, in order to maximize the usefulness of the facility for community events, including shared parking.

Academic House | LEARNING ENVIRONMENT The academic “houses” provide a highly flexible, open, and extremely visible environment for group collaboration, which fosters critical student/student and student/teacher relationships. Classrooms, conference rooms, faculty planning offices, student and faculty toilet rooms, and grade-specific lockers make up a “house”, promoting a cohesive environment in which students may live and learn.

Academic House | LEARNING ENVIRONMENT The key to the original design solution – the arrangement of the classrooms into three separate, grade-level specific, double-lobed academic learning centers, each surrounding (but connected through significant fenestration) a lively central collaboration space – has been maintained in the new school.

Student Commons | LEARNING ENVIRONMENT As an extension of the Student Commons, student lounge on the second level has been outfitted for special activities, like table tennis and foosball - this area serves as a reminder to students and visitors that learning should be, above all else, fun. School architecture should inspire learning. Legacy Junior High is an environment where the sky is not the limit, but imagination is the only boundary.

Classroom | LEARNING ENVIRONMENT Improvements to the plan include redesigned Food and Clothing labs, a more formal Performance Space, and the addition of several computer learning centers. Also, computer kiosks have been added throughout all commons and collaborative areas to promote “on demand”, serendipitous learning opportunities. Teachers’ desks are integrated into the classroom millwork, which has been redesigned to accommodate teacher needs for the next level of collaborative learning. Technologically, each classroom and the collaboration spaces all include sound reinforcement systems and computer projection. Newly hired staff was handpicked for their eagerness to become a part of a 21st century educational team.

Student Commons | PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT The school is sited to allow all classrooms to face either north or south, allowing controllable daylighting into the learning spaces. The artificial classroom lighting incorporates T5 high output lamping and automatic dimming with solar sensors for energy savings as well as great light quality. The mechanical system utilizes displacement ventilation, which not only saves energy, it also provides a healthier place to learn. Building materials utilize sustainable and locally produced products, like concrete masonry units, metal panel, and floors are mainly ground concrete, great for maintenance and sustainable at the same time.

Learning Centers | PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT At Legacy, the Learning Centers take the identity of visionary leaders in history: Martin Luther King Jr., Marie Curie, Mahatma Gandhi, Anne Frank, Cesar Chavez, Galileo, Einstein, and Margaret Mead. An image and biography of these great thinkers is featured within each collaboration space, and their most thought-provoking quotes are etched on the entry glass.

Collaboration | PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT Legacy Junior High School was designed as a student- centric collaborative community. Each “Education Community” is arranged around a central collaboration space which is designed not as a circulation space with added seating, rather as a meaningful programmatic element. Learning takes place both in and out of the classroom, often simultaneously. The collaboration spaces are organized to be flexible so that the students can make them “their own”. The concept of Small Learning Centers is to create an intimate community within a large school – students will spend most of their school day within their community.

Exterior | PLANNING PROCESS This school is the result of a lively collaboration of stakeholders including teachers, students, District staff, community members, and architects. The District and architects began by assessing the previous award-winning facility, assigning a committee to define and update the original junior high program. Architectural post occupancy studies were analyzed, and those involved in the new school reassessed the effectiveness of the design to extend the vision of education for the 21 st century.

Courtyard | PLANNING PROCESS The design team evaluated materials, electrical, and mechanical systems, exploring the newest technologies, and applied the best concepts to this new facility. Since building energy use and sustainability were an important part of the building vision, building energy modeling was utilized as an assessment tool, and extensive meetings with district maintenance staff were conducted to ensure the future maintainability of all building systems.

Leaving a Legacy | FLOOR PLAN, LEVEL 1 Learning opportunities at Legacy Junior High are integral to the architecture. Visionary thinkers are highlighted throughout the school, inspiring students to create their own legacies.

FLOOR PLAN, LEVEL 2

Exhibition of School Planning and Architecture 2010 Project Data Submitting Firm :VCBO Architecture Project RoleDesign Architect Project ContactJeanne Jackson, AIA, LEED®AP TitlePartner Address524 South 600 East City, State or Province, CountrySalt Lake City, UT Phone Joint Partner Firm:N/A Project Role Project Contact Title Address City, State or Province, Country Phone Other Firm:N/A Project Role Project Contact Title Address City, State or Province, Country Phone Construction Firm:Hogan & Associates Construction Project RoleGeneral Contractor Project ContactDennis Forbush TitleVice President of Operations Address940 North 1250 West City, State or Province, CountryCenterville, UT Phone

Exhibition of School Planning and Architecture 2010 Project Details Project Name Legacy Junior High School CityLayton StateUtah District NameDavis School District Supt/President Bryan Turner Occupancy Date August 2009 Grades Housed 7-9 Capacity(Students) 1,250 Site Size (acres)28 Gross Area (sq. ft.) 175,900 Per Occupant(pupil) gross/net please indicate Design and Build? No If yes, Total Cost: Includes: If no, Site Development: 3,020,000 Building Construction:28,980,000 Fixed Equipment:Included in building cost Other: Total: $32,000,000