{"id":19403,"date":"2024-05-03T16:12:39","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T16:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/texasschoolarchitecture.org\/?page_id=19403"},"modified":"2024-05-03T16:12:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T16:12:39","slug":"2022-gamedesigndevelopment-school","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/texasschoolarchitecture.org\/?page_id=19403","title":{"rendered":"2022 \u2014 Game+Design+Development School"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t
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Burleson ISD\u2014Game+Design+Development School
\nArchitect: Pfluger Architects, Inc.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Prepare to have your mind blown. This school is programmed and designed to be something you have NEVER seen. \u00a0The idea formed when a commercial property with a state-of-the-art events venue became available. \u00a0Could it support education? \u00a0But not just any education. A specific, high-tech program that challenges the thinking of students, teachers, and the educational establishment. A new kind of school emerged from the dust that prepares students for future careers that don’t yet exist.<\/p>\n

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

Open concept, glass, steel, ambient lighting, and alternative seating\u2014everything designed to bring a high-tech, industry-inspired feel to the learning setting. The former commercial space was gutted to make way for a classroom-free environment with space that meets a variety of educational delivery methods. Glass-enclosed break-out rooms can accommodate full classes, group collaboration, or individual study, and the adjacent state-of-the-art venue provides event space for district needs.<\/p>\n

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

Consider an empty box. It is highly flexible, adaptable, and potentially efficient. Now, without making a box of boxes, fill the void with everything that goes into a school. \u00a0How does one create order out of potential chaos? The design team used systems to develop zones that could positively affect education through healthier, more efficient air handling and task and mood-enhancing lighting. Everything in the classroom-free space is portable and durable.<\/p>\n

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

The educational goal of this school is to push the envelope; the design needed to follow. \u00a0The classroom-free environment isn’t collaboration spaces here and classrooms there. It’s a new kind of space where students own their education. They can get ahead, collaborate, or study individually. It’s their choice. \u00a0Teachers here creatively accommodate more than 400 self-paced, independent learners using a combination of blended and self-paced learning using the best-integrated technology available.<\/p>\n

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

Pushing these students to their potential is a community endeavor. Inviting society in is as important as pushing the students out into… \u00a0Leadership has found creative ways to do both while shaping an internal community that builds good citizenship, compassion, and responsibility. The school’s unique programming is the foundation. Therefore, to accommodate that programming, the core focus was to provide a modern, tech-forward, and flexible design to meet the school’s multiple and varied needs.<\/p>\n

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

“Q: How does one plan for the unknown\u2014for programming in its infancy with no precedent?
\nA: In the same way one shapes students for their future.<\/p>\n

You take the best of what is current, and with imagination, speculation, and creativity\u2014you build for potential.<\/p>\n

We researched, surveyed, and debated everything.
\nHow to keep a large, open space quiet?
\nHow to provide food service with no room for a kitchen?
\nHow to accommodate PE without a gym?<\/p>\n

Solutions had to be found, and they had to work!”<\/p>\n

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

Instructional Revolutionary. \u00a0Everything about this school breaks the mold of traditional instruction models, and for these kids and educators, it’s working. \u00a0By profile, these teachers and students are risk-takers. Something tried that doesn’t work isn’t a failure; it’s a step in the process of building success. It’s also an intellectual pursuit that prepares these students for jobs that don’t exist and creates teachers who can teach with materials we don’t even know about yet.<\/p>\n

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

Burleson ISD\u2014Game+Design+Development School Architect: Pfluger Architects, Inc. Prepare to have your mind blown. This school is programmed and designed to be something you have NEVER seen. \u00a0The idea formed when a commercial property with a state-of-the-art events venue became available. \u00a0Could it support education? \u00a0But not just any education. A specific, high-tech program that challenges […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18670,"parent":19254,"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-19403","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasschoolarchitecture.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19403","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=19403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/texasschoolarchitecture.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19403\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasschoolarchitecture.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasschoolarchitecture.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasschoolarchitecture.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}