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EDUCATION DESIGN SHOWCASE • K-12
PROJECT OF DISTINCTION
DEL NORTE
K-12
UPPER RIO GRANDE SCHOOL DISTRICT DEL NORTE, CO
ARCHITECT
TreanorHL
STEPHANIE GROSE, AIA 303-298-4700
PROJECT INFORMATION
CHIEF ADMINISTRATOR
Aaron Horrocks, Superintendent
COMPLETION DATE
Jan. 2020
GROSS AREA
122,000 sq. ft.
AREA PER STUDENT
152 sq. ft.
SITE SIZE
31 acres
CURRENT ENROLLMENT
412 students
CAPACITY
800 students
COST PER STUDENT
$56,250
COST PER SQ. FT.
$368.85
TOTAL COST
$45,000,000
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THE CONSOLIDATED K-12
campus features a 122,000- square-foot school, age- appropriate playgrounds and a comprehensive athletic complex. The building includes separate and secured entrances for elementary, community events, intermediate and secondary education. The design posi- tions the elementary school
and middle/high school wings
as separate but physically connected schools, arranged in a “school-within-a-school” con- cept. Elastic learning environ- ments create visual and physical connections between classroom learning spaces, team centers, makerspaces and learning resource amenities. The facility’s core includes the shared and community programs easily accessible from the two distinct classroom wings and offers a celebrated community focus. The core consists of a two-story community learning commons framing views to both the adja- cent San Juan Mountains and the Sangre De Cristo Mountains. The community commons space has immediate access to the district offices, information commons, kitchen/servery, performing
arts theater and the gymnasium complex, complete with a sus- pended running track. The core facilities and activity areas were envisioned to provide Del Norte with shared community ameni- ties, and they have proven to
be widely utilized by locals and community programs. The state- of-the-art K-12 school achieved LEED Silver certification and is a testament to the facility and op- erational efficiencies integrated within the programmatic layout and system design.