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Exterior shot of the glass window walls and metal structure seen at sundown
Fayetteville High School, Fayetteville, Arkansas (2014)
The building's new cohesive exterior face seen from MLK boulevard to the south amidst busy traffic from cars and busses
Fayetteville High School, Fayetteville, Arkansas (2014)
Metal and stone building exterior featuring a large window displaying 'FHS' to the street to the South
Fayetteville High School, Fayetteville, Arkansas (2014)
Students catching their bus after school ends seen from the front metal exterior of the building
Fayetteville High School, Fayetteville, Arkansas (2014)
The school auditorium with towering warm wood ceilings and stone walls
Fayetteville High School, Fayetteville, Arkansas (2014)
Interior of the basketball stadium space during a heated basketball game with a full crowd
Fayetteville High School, Fayetteville, Arkansas (2014)
Children relaxing in the courtyard below the repeating glass windows of the library
Fayetteville High School, Fayetteville, Arkansas (2014)
Library entrance shows metal and glass walls overlooking concrete steps and gathering students
Fayetteville High School, Fayetteville, Arkansas (2014)
Fayetteville High School, Fayetteville, Arkansas (2014)
Fayetteville High School, Fayetteville, Arkansas (2014)
Fayetteville High School courtyard space with metal and glass materials landscaped with grass and flowers
Fayetteville High School, Fayetteville, Arkansas (2014)
Fayetteville High School metal and glass exterior surrounded by students and green landscaping
Fayetteville High School, Fayetteville, Arkansas (2014)

Fayetteville High School

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The Fayetteville High School is a major reinvestment in the centrally-located 33 acre site, one that properly accommodates the existing students, teachers, and administration while also allowing for future expansion. The existing campus featured a wide variety of structures from different eras without a cohesive identity. The new design for Fayetteville High School gathers the best parts of the existing high school and adds many facilities while creating a bold new identity and interface with the public. At the south end of the site, a new competition gymnasium and performing arts center flank a plaza that becomes the public face of the high school, visible from Martin Luther King., Jr. Boulevard.

Since the high school encompasses nearly half a million square feet, construction strategies used for large structures are employed to provide economical design solutions. With a material palette of box-ribbed metal panels, glass curtain wall and local stone, the high school now has a unified identity, re-establishing its place in the community. In order to solve the security problems of the original campus, limited access points now allow for a secure experience for students, while providing generous outdoor spaces. The pedestrian street that runs between the academic facilities to the north and the athletic and performing arts facilities to the south gives views to the Ozarks beyond the site, while connecting different programs and buildings in a common space. Interior spaces provide generous natural light from large window walls. The new organization of classrooms provides small learning communities of 450 students and a new teaching format, enriching the educational environment and encouraging interdisciplinary collaboration among all students and faculty.

LOCATION / Fayetteville, Arkansas
BUILDING TYPE / New Construction + Renovation
BUILDING SIZE / 460,200 GSF
COMPLETION DATE / August 2015
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH / Hight Jackson Associates + DLR Group

AWARDS /
+ LEED Silver Certification [Phase 1]
+ LEED Gold Certification [Phase 2]
+ Gulf States Regional AIA Honor Citation Award [2017]
+ AIA/CAE Educational Facility Design Award of Merit [2016]
+ Metal Architecture Design Award: Renovations and Retrofit Category [2016]
+ Arkansas AIA Merit Award [2014]
+ Fayetteville Chamber Building Block Award [2012]

Marygrove Early Education Center

Marygrove Early Education Center

Lamplighter School Innovation Lab

Lamplighter School Innovation Lab

Crystal Bridges Eleven Servery & Coffee Bar

Crystal Bridges Eleven Servery & Coffee Bar

Ledger City Center

Ledger City Center

Thaden School Bike Barn

Thaden School Bike Barn

Thaden School Performance Building

Thaden School Performance Building

Shelby Farms Park Structures

Shelby Farms Park Structures

Shelby Farms Park Restaurant and Event Center

Shelby Farms Park Restaurant and Event Center

Thaden Reels exterior photo of it's angular modern structure at night

Thaden School Reels Building

Flyrite

Flyrite

The restaurant space showing a beautiful mix of materials of concrete masonry units and plywood

COOP Ramen

Lamplighter School Barn

Lamplighter School Barn

Harvey Pediatric Clinic red metal and glass profile shot looking across parking spots

Harvey Pediatric Clinic

Steven L. Anderson Design Center Exterior exterior made of Indiana limestone, architectural concrete, and fritted glass

University of Arkansas Steven L. Anderson Design Center

Shelby Farms Park Visitor Center seen at sunset featuring a large overhanging 'front porch' overlooking fresh-cut grass

Shelby Farms Park Visitor Center

The church exterior seen at night, made of a box rib metal panel and red cross that shines from the top of a tower

St. Nicholas Eastern Orthodox Church

The low-slung form of the pavilion, bathed in dappled light, hovering above the forest floor, acts as an apparition in the woods

Indianapolis Museum of Art Visitors Pavilion

Tanglewood Cabin

Tanglewood Cabin

Montessori Elementary entrance at night

Fayetteville Montessori Elementary Building

Keenan Tower House lit up at night as it towers over trees in the forest

Keenan TowerHouse

Graphic House

Graphic House

Exterior shot of the glass window walls and metal structure seen at sundown

Fayetteville High School

Blessings Golf Clubhouse seen at dusk lit from inside looking over the cut grass

Blessings Golf Clubhouse

PORCHDOG PROTOTYPE, Biloxi, Mississippi (2009)

Porchdog

Montessori Primary, Fayetteville, Arkansas (2014)

Fayetteville Montessori Primary Building

A wooden floors, walls, and ceilings look out through glass at the concrete museum

Crystal Bridges Museum Store

The building's exterior lit from inside at dusk during a rainstorm

Gentry Public Library

Bella Vista Library

Bella Vista Library

L - Stack House, Fayetteville, Arkansas (2006)

L-Stack House

Interior airy wooden seating area below second flow overlooks with white ceiling and natural lighting

Northwest Arkansas Free Health Center

A view of the buildings beautiful white exoskeleton and night with lights shining from inside

Srygley Office Building

The Fulbright Building

The Fulbright Building

Moore HoneyHouse lit from inside at night with glowing jars of honey shining brightly through the glass

Moore Honeyhouse