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Overland Park, KS

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Completion Date: 2011
Square Footage: 68,200
LEED for New Construction Gold certification candidate

Awards:
MacConnell Award Finalist
CEFPI, 2011

Gold Level - Living, Working, + Learning Environments
Edison Awards, 2011

Exhibition of School Architecture - Citation, 2011
National School Boards Association

The Blue Valley Schools Center for Advanced Professional Studies (CAPS) provides Blue Valley district's juniors and seniors with unique educational programs offering integrated profession-based study.

Project goals were formulated in collaborative workshops that included administrators, educators, industry leaders, business professionals, and the project designers. Each participant was critical in developing the vision for the project and in lending his or her perspective on the direction of the industry "strands": engineering; bioscience; business, technology, and media; and human services, each of which encompasses sub-pathways and was selected due to its relevancy in the Kansas City regional marketplace. In addition, the business accelerator features rapid prototyping labs.

The examination of ideal environments identified several common programmatic threads-large flexible spaces for "doing," transparent project areas for collaboration, and small group areas for real-world meetings. The building organizes all spaces on three levels around a centralized student commons. Rising dramatically from one end of this commons, a large wood-clad amphitheater stair connects the entry level to floors above and provides an ideal amenity for large group presentations. Large, flexible project spaces overlook the student commons and provide a multitude of functions.

A LEED for Schools GOLD certified facility, CAPS incorporates an array of sustainable design strategies. The principal building orientation places the broad face of classrooms and labs spaces in a north- or south-facing orientation to maximize daylight. Fresh outdoor air is distributed via an underfloor zoned mechanical displacement ventilation system. Additional sustainable strategies include a rainwater cistern collection system for irrigation, solar screening, bioswales, rain gardens, recycled interior finishes, locally sourced materials, CO2 monitoring, and permeable site paving.

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Blue Valley Center for Advanced Professional Studies

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Completed in August 2010, the Blue Valley Center for Advanced Professional Studies (CAPS) is a unique learning facility that will serve approximately 200 high school juniors and seniors from five area high schools. Educators and business professionals will work together to emulate real world experiences in order to introduce students to various professional career strands such as engineering, bioscience, human services and business.

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Students share their experience in this video...

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Video: Blue Valley Center for Advanced Professional Studies

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Where will the next Steve Jobs' and Bill Gates' of the world come from? The innovative facility designed by Perkins+Will for the Blue Valley School District is helping to pave the way for the next generation of entrepreneurs. Listen as CAPS students reveal what makes the program special and how it has impacted their lives.

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Plano, TX
Plano ISD’s Academy High School is an adaptive reuse of a former office building into a 21st century learning environment designed to support a hand-on STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math) curriculum. The design removed walls to create an open plan, incorporating flexible learning space, project labs, a fabrication lab, and formal and informal gathering spaces throughout the 100,000sf facility. Faculty offices are housed in adjacent, but equally open, “teacher home” areas.

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Katy ISD - Robert R. Shaw Center for STEAM

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Katy ISD - Robert R. Shaw Center for STEAM

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Katy, TX
Katy Independent School District (ISD) already featured science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The STEM presence in their district was established and thriving. But, at the time, there was no dedicated space for the arts. Katy ISD figured it was time to make a place that brought STEM and the arts together—a place for students, teachers, and mentors to collaborate.
The Robert R. Shaw Center for STEAM is a place where Katy ISD users can intersect. Creativity, communication, and collaboration are explored as roles and responsibilities are rotated. For example, teachers can be learners, students can be leaders, and mentors can be collaborators. It’s a new forum to delve into diverse interests relevant to our changing world...

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Olathe, KS
At Olathe West, space and technology work together to foster and enhance the learning experience. Flexibility and portability combine to create an engaging culture customized by the learner. The design promotes project-based learning through a variety of learning spaces, providing hands-on, real-world instruction that tackles current and future global issues...

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Overland Park, KS
(Interior Photograph of Lobby Space)

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Dallas, TX
PDF presentation including photos, plans, sections, ...

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Overland Park, KS
Center for Advanced Professional Studies (CAPS) programs are nationally recognized, innovative high school programs. Students fast forward into their future and are fully immersed in a professional culture, solving real world problems, using industry standard tools and are mentored by actual employers, all while receiving high school and college credit. CAPS is an example of how business, community and public education can partner to produce personalized learning experiences that educate the workforce of tomorrow, especially in high skill, high demand jobs.

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Profession Based Learning for Secondary Education - Blue Valley Caps

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Blue Valley Caps is your resource for profession based learning for secondary education. We would love to work with you towards your educational goals.

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Olathe, KS

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Katy ISD - Robert R. Shaw Center for STEAM

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Katy ISD - Robert R. Shaw Center for STEAM

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Katy, TX
The Robert R. Shaw Center for STEAM is designed to provide students across grade levels with space to bring ideas from conception through design to production..

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Dallas, TX
This elementary school uses Challenge-Based Learning, which is an Apple version of PBL with Montessori and technology intentionally mixed in. Learners are grouped in K-5 small learning communities, which allows them to be grouped by ability or grade level. Teachers share the whole neighborhood, and have a desk in a Design space where the teachers design learning.

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Kodiak, AK
This High School serves as the sole high school for the Kodiak Island community. Following graduation, many of its students remain on the island enter its leading industries of commercial fishing, healthcare, aerospace, and the US Navy and US Coast Guard. DLR Group's design provides a 21st Century modernization to a 1960s building with numerous additions and renovations. The design features three types of spaces: LINK, GATHER and LEARN. LINK spaces tie together zones throughout the building. GATHER spaces function as community destinations such as the library, dining commons, and fitness lounge. LEARN spaces are used for educational delivery, featuring ample glazing to encourage connectivity between learning spaces. By stacking the addition into one, 4-story structure, the design minimizes the impact on a tight site, allows an open, connected space plan and maximizes ocean views. DLR Group exercised diligent communication practices throughout the design process in order to arrive at a design which unifies the dreams and ideals of the community, while supporting the essential need for vocational, career, and technical programs.

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Scope Summary - The scope for Kodiak High School calls for a modernized high school to serve 900 students. The scope comprises a four-story, 85,000 SF addition and 104,000 SF of renovations. To improve the sense of welcoming, a large entry canopy was added to the facility to provide shelter from the severe Alaskan weather.

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Plano, TX

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Joplin, MO
DLR Group’s design for the new comprehensive high school incorporates educational concepts to prepare students for a “Career to College” experience.

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The Joplin, Mo., community celebrated a milestone in its recovery and rebuilding process with the dedication of the new DLR Group/CGA-designed Joplin High School on October 3. Special guests Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan addressed students, staff and community members at the dedication ceremony.

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Jordan Middle School: 5th-8th, Addition + Renovation

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Jordan Middle School: 5th-8th, Addition + Renovation

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Jordan, MN
This project includes renovating a 108,670 SF facility built in 1965, adding a 12,200 SF pod with a variety of flexible learning spaces, and creating a 60,145 SF Community Center addition. The Community Education and Recreation Center (CERC), with its own entry, includes three gym stations with an elevated track, fitness center and community meeting spaces. Large glass windows will bring natural light deep into the facility, lighting all recreation and meeting areas. The classroom addition accommodates the district's movement toward a STEAM program and provides two academic clusters each with ten classrooms and three Einstein labs (multipurpose labs that can be used for science and other subjects. The commons area, the building's heart, seats up to 400 students and focuses on a raised stage area with acoustical ceiling. DLR Group provided architectural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, structural engineering and interior design services.

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Design Achievement - Jordan School District wanted to re-imagine its middle school, constructed circa 1960, into a flexible learning environment capable of supporting a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) program. DLR Group engaged school stakeholders in a variety of ways to give birth to a holistically different learning model that supports individual student success and collaboration.

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Overland Park, KS

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Baton Rouge, LA
The scope for this new 250,000 SF high school is centered on four individual buildings, in a campus-like setting to serve 1,200 students in grades 9-12. Three, 400-student academies will deliver a personalized and customizable learning experience in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM), Bio-medical, and Digital Arts. A separate commons building combines the identities of the three academies and houses shared functions. DLR Group provided planning and architecture services for the project in partnership with GraceHebert Architects.

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Design Achievement - The East Baton Rouge Parish School System commissioned GraceHebert Architects, in association with DLR Group, to design a new, 21st Century high school to replace its existing Lee High School. DLR Group collaborated with the client to develop guiding principles for the design through a series of visioning meetings with administrators, staff, students, business partners, and community members.