{"id":15459,"date":"2022-01-12T22:24:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T22:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/texasschoolarchitecture.org\/?page_id=15459"},"modified":"2024-05-06T03:20:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T03:20:01","slug":"2021-technology-exploration-career-center-west","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/texasschoolarchitecture.org\/?page_id=15459","title":{"rendered":"2021 \u2014 Technology, Exploration & Career Center West"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t
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Lewisville ISD\u2014Technology, Exploration & Career Center West
\nArchitect: Stantec<\/strong><\/h4>\n

This new Career and Technical Education (CTE) Center provides students with access to a diverse range of in-demand careers\u2014including health professionals, machinists, and game designers\u2014all together under one roof. Designed to foster integration among the varied educational offerings, the opportunity this CTE center provides lies at the intersections: synergies created by these programs collaborating that will, in turn, forecast the jobs these students will encounter upon graduation.<\/p>\n

Design<\/strong><\/p>\n

The CTE center reflects the district and community\u2019s desire to create a place that celebrates students\u2019 work and welcomes the community. Learning is on display throughout the center, allowing students and visitors alike to see the work in action.\u00a0The gallery is where all these programs come together. It offers a view of the programs on both levels and serves as a central collaboration space, allowing visitors an opportunity to experience the learning as it happens.<\/p>\n

Value<\/strong><\/p>\n

A centralized facility offers the benefit of increased space utilization. It also allows the district to create highly specialized spaces with highly specialized staff that would be cost-prohibitive to replicate throughout the district.\u00a0That efficiency goes even further at this CTE Center, supporting 1,200 students daily with active learning space in 94% of the building. This easily surpasses the 81% per student average of most CTE centers in Texas.<\/p>\n

Innovation<\/strong><\/p>\n

94% of the building is educational space \u2013 far above the 81% average of comparable CTE centers in the region. The design team achieved this by developing a solution that supported a more efficient plan and modular shop spaces. The integrative process also allowed for utilizing spaces above the shops and kitchen that would typically go unused. The result? Less space devoted to corridors and more room for learning.<\/p>\n

Community<\/strong><\/p>\n

The new facility fulfills both the district\u2019s vision and the community\u2019s desire for education that connects students to an array of fulfilling career paths. The multipurpose room\u2014a shared space between students, faculty, and community members\u2014is used for events, professional development, and large instructional space. Displaying all learning environments along one circulation space connects the community with the vibrant activity happening in the school.<\/p>\n

\"Planning\u2014StarPlanning<\/strong><\/p>\n

The planning process focused on creating spaces that supported real word learning experiences and allowed programs to collaborate with each other. The building has a compact plan that reallocates corridor space to active learning environments, providing dedicated areas for intentional collaboration among programs and between students without adding any project cost.<\/p>\n

School Transformation<\/strong><\/p>\n

At this CTE Center, long gone are the days of relegating the trades to the back-of-house. Here, welding, woodworking, construction tech, and automotive take center stage alongside medicine, computer science, and other professions. Placing these programs together and providing spaces for them to collaborate was a deliberate choice. This inclusive approach celebrates these diverse programs as paths to a successful future, whether that future takes students to college or through a trades program.<\/p>\n

\"Stars Star of Distinction Category Winner<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lewisville ISD\u2014Technology, Exploration & Career Center West Architect: Stantec This new Career and Technical Education (CTE) Center provides students with access to a diverse range of in-demand careers\u2014including health professionals, machinists, and game designers\u2014all together under one roof. Designed to foster integration among the varied educational offerings, the opportunity this CTE center provides lies at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15419,"parent":15486,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15459","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasschoolarchitecture.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasschoolarchitecture.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasschoolarchitecture.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasschoolarchitecture.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasschoolarchitecture.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/texasschoolarchitecture.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15459\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasschoolarchitecture.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasschoolarchitecture.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasschoolarchitecture.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}