Scales Mound School
Grades Served:
K-12
Square Footage:
37,857 new
12,000 remodeled
Cost:
Estimate: $3,539,800
Actual: $3,471,874
Change Orders:
($67,926)
Occupancy Date:
March & August 1997
General Contractor:
Prism Corporation
Kieler, Wisconsin
In 1995 Scales Mound Community Unit School District 211 hired our firm to do a Pre-Referendum Study. Their district, with an average population of 300, functioned within one PreK-12 building which had gone through multiple generations of additions. Our planning sessions with their staff and other representatives revealed some major concerns and needs:
• keep elementary and high school students and their class areas separate;
• replace an ineffectual science lab with up-to-date demonstration, computer, & experiment areas capable of adapting to progressive educational changes;
• a larger, more compre-hensive tech ed class;
• a contest gym with adequate spectator seating and ample boys, girls, visiting, and home team lockerrooms;
• a new band room, properly located & treated for the least sound transmission
• a larger administrative area;
• devise adequate ventilation, especially for the art room and original spaces “boxed in” by subsequent additions.
After a successful referendum, we designed a 2-level 37,857 s.f. addition to complement 12,000 s.f. of remodeling. This increased the school’s area by 80% and included new classrooms, Science, Music, and Tech Ed rooms, and a new Gym, Lockerrooms and Chair Lift. Renovations updated the Library, Administrative areas, Art, Preschool rooms, and renovated both the toilet rooms and classrooms to meet accessibility requirements.
(From Top) Entrance by gym; Hallway with trophy showcases; Elementary Learning Resources Center; New Band Room; Renovated Reception Area.
Photos taken by Nels Akerlund
Scales Mound School
| Grades Served: | |||
| K-12 | |||
| Square Footage: | |||
| 37,857 new 12,000 remodeled |
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| Cost: | |||
| Estimate: $3,539,800 Actual: $3,471,874 |
|||
| Change Orders: | |||
| ($67,926) | |||
| Occupancy Date: | |||
| March & August 1997 | |||
| General Contractor: | |||
| Prism Corporation Kieler, Wisconsin |
• keep elementary and high school students and their class areas separate;
• replace an ineffectual science lab with up-to-date demonstration, computer, & experiment areas capable of adapting to progressive educational changes;
• a larger, more compre-hensive tech ed class;
• a contest gym with adequate spectator seating and ample boys, girls, visiting, and home team lockerrooms;
• a new band room, properly located & treated for the least sound transmission
• a larger administrative area;
• devise adequate ventilation, especially for the art room and original spaces “boxed in” by subsequent additions.
After a successful referendum, we designed a 2-level 37,857 s.f. addition to complement 12,000 s.f. of remodeling. This increased the school’s area by 80% and included new classrooms, Science, Music, and Tech Ed rooms, and a new Gym, Lockerrooms and Chair Lift. Renovations updated the Library, Administrative areas, Art, Preschool rooms, and renovated both the toilet rooms and classrooms to meet accessibility requirements.
Photos taken by Nels Akerlund