ACS Highland Renovation

Client: Anderson Community School Corporation
Project: Highland High School Interior Renovation
Completed: August 2010

In response to the changes in the statewide funding equations, the Anderson Community School Board elected to reorganize their school corporation from a two high school model to a single, consolidated high school.  Obviously an emotionally charged decision, the current Highland High School will be re-dedicated as the school corporation’s sole middle school.  In order to accomplish this transition, additional classrooms and academic lockers needed to be added to supplement the existing building program.

Two primary areas are the focus of this interior remodel.  The first, formerly dedicated for the athletic office area, will be transformed into two general study classrooms.  The second area is located outside of the cafeteria; formerly an auxiliary gymnasium area.  This area will house four new general study classrooms.  Due to the high structural height in this location, borrowed, clearstory windows were designed to allow opportunity for daylight to pour through the floor-to-ceiling windows in the cafeteria.  Through the twelve foot high storefront glazing that separates the cafeteria from the commons area, natural light permeates into the interior classroom space.