Excerpted from the article by James McCandless.
A new high school is in the works to serve the students of Alamo Heights.
Shaping the project is Studio Director Sara Flowers of LPA Design Studios. She told the Business Journal paying tribute to the history of the building and protecting the nearly dozens of trees that dot the campus are some of the primary factors influencing the design.
"Paying homage to that mid-century modern architecture, as well as the amazing oak trees that surround both the front and back of the campus, is really important," she said.
Paying homage to that mid-century modern architecture, as well as the amazing oak trees that surround both the front and back of the campus, is really important."
— Sara Flowers, LPA San Antonio Studio Director
Of the nearly 100 trees on-site, only three — which are dead or near death — are slated to be removed.
The new plan also allows for a more expansive courtyard space in the center of the campus, aiming to give students an expansive area in which they can move about freely, safely within school grounds. The new structure will be three stories tall, a story higher than the previous iteration, so it provides a kind of wall around the open courtyard while accommodating a growing student body.
"With this new design, we're able to create more of a (C-shape) and open up a bigger kind of outdoor learning courtyard space, kind of a social hub for the kids within the campus itself," she said.
Read the full article in the San Antonio Business Journal.
