The new high school addition provides flexible spaces with more than one function. Moveable walls, reconfigurable furniture, shared faculty offices, and multi-functional spaces create a 21st-century learning environment in a smaller footprint.
Collaboration and coming together were a major focus in the arrangement of the educational spaces. The learning environments extend out of the classrooms and into the lobby and corridor providing a full complement of learning settings, establishing a student-centered learning environment.
How do we increase space utilization for modern learning when 60% of the existing 1922 high school spaces were underused?
Utilizing a design thinking process, BLDD worked with educators and the community to create conceptual spaces to solve the high school's existing problems. This led to a "hacked" environment, where students and faculty tested prototyped rooms to gather feedback for the most effective, solutions-based designs for the new space.
- 4 Science Rooms
- Expanded Administrative Areas
- 39,000 Square Foot Field House
- Weight Room & Locker Room
- Band Room
- Choral Room
The new high school addition provides spaces that are flexible and have more than one function. Moveable walls, reconfigurable furniture, shared faculty offices, and multi-functional spaces create a 21st century learning environment in a smaller footprint.
The Prairie Central PK-4 Elementary school is an opportunity to unify elementary programming under one roof for the first time in district history. Not only will it mark a new location for educational programming in the district, it also will be planned to allow for future programming needs, including expansion to a PK-5 or PK-8 school in the distant future. The building is designed to support roughly 800 students with five smaller flexible environments or zones within the space.
Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School District #307 is embarking on a transformative $70 million facility improvement plan, made possible through a $62 million voter-approved referendum and an $8 million commitment from the District. This ambitious three-year initiative is scheduled for completion by Fall 2028.