DUBLIN HIGH SCHOOL

NEW ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE BUILDING

Dublin school opens much-anticipated new science, engineering building. $31.5 million building was funded by voter-approved measures

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-- San Jose Mercury News

New ideas are often the result of long-term tinkering with tools and experiment. There is no single flash of insights that create whole idea from scratch, but rather a continuous and deliberate exploration of old hunches.

This new STEM building provides individual storages for student projects ideas (like mini-garages). Students can tinker with ideas and come back to develop them over and over again. Personal project storage space -- like the garage -- is often overlooked when designing STEM buildings. Storages for individual student projects in classrooms allowed unique hunches to developed over time into actual engineering projects.

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After multiple design meetings with DUSD, Dublin High School and their staff, dsk found that two basic types of classrooms were needed - a Computer Programming Type and an Engineering Type - that were designed to be flexible enough to serve the additional STEM courses.

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This includes 11 classrooms, 3 lab classrooms, shop areas and a larger lecture room. The new classroom building will also include a fitness room for the athletic department, and a maintenance shop for the facilities department. dsk architects also coordinated the construction schedule to ensure a smooth transition by providing 27 temporary classrooms for students.

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Other spaces needed included storage for course needed supplies both in shared rooms and rooms central to the Academy, and unique manufacturing spaces for courses such as CIM.

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In the end, a 47,090 sf, 3-story engineering and science classroom building was designed to allow personalized exploration in engineering design.

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MARKET TYPE

k -12

CLIENT

Dublin Unified School District

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LOCATION

8151 Village Parkway, Dublin, CA

94568