001Um, so with that, I'll turn it over to Mr. Andy Mack to introduce our guest. >> Thank you, Dr. Union. Um, so we're here for the 5-6 Elementary School tonight presentation and we have three groups that have partnered together on this project. Um, Ansley Anslem out from ALSC Architecture, locally here in Cheyenne. Dan Barrons, FBL Consulting, and Ron Olson with JGL Architecture. So, I'll turn over to Ron and he'll start presentation. >> Sure. Thank you. I appreciate that. Um, you guys want to say anything more about yourselves? I From how it's organized, FBL's the prime contract with the district. We've We're consultant to FBL as the design team. And then, Ansley is has been involved through the entire process and will really take more of a lead on the construction phase of things. So, that's
002kind of how we're organized. Um, I tend to give presentations and I hate the word presentations cuz I'm more of an interactive person, teacher at heart in many ways. Um, so I'm just going to kind of keep things at a like I call it a 30,000-ft elevation. You can bring it down to 10,000 if you want, just let me know. I can take on I go down rabbit holes all the time. So, hopefully I won't do that unless you ask. So, yes, you guys have Well, the students voted on this, correct? >> Yes. >> Um, it's a great logo. I was actually really impressed cuz it's not just the partner or some of the other things. I shouldn't have said that, but all of the other things that they could have come up with, this
003is very unique, at least with my experience. So, um, everybody's been out to the site. Everybody's aware of the site. You know where it is, I believe. So, Walnut Road and then Division is over here, and it's that corner that's to the west of Aff- Afflerbaugh. It took me a while to get that. I got it. So, um so, anyways, uh it's a brand new 92,500 sq ft facility for 5th and 6th graders. Uh it'll be a um I don't know if collector's is the right word, but there's 10 elementary schools that will feed this facility. Maybe that's a better term. I'm not sure, but um so, it has the design capacity of about 650 students. Uh there's always some leeway in that cuz you know exactly how um enrollment fluctuates and things like that.
004That's what it's designed for. So, uh one of the things that we start any project out with is I'll talk about safety on a couple of these slides. It's all about safety first, and then you can learn. So, um the building is essentially oriented north and south. So, on the east side, I call it the public side, but that's where the parents will be coming in to drop off or pick up. It's a similar lane to Zekariy Ridge. Thank you. Um and then parking on the inside. Uh so, there will also be arrival opportunities for students who walk or bike or other modes of There's a lot of modes of uh transportation now, so they can come in. We've made sure that there's a direct path to the entry without crossing any vehicles. Um cuz
005we know how the vehicle situation goes sometimes sometimes. Um and there's really nothing down here, but there's still opportunities to arrive from that west side. So, if you're arriving by bus or leaving by bus, you would continue down Warwick past all of this and there's a separate lane to bring the buses in, pull up curbside, always drop students off, pick them up on the curb, and then at least for now loop back out to Warwick. Now, it's designed in a way that if Division Street does happen, assuming it will, we've done a few things that will uh reduce the impact of the design and make it uh as reasonably economical as you can to make a connection to that. So, then transportation at that point um the buses could leave to the north or, you
006know, as you never know, or return back out this way. And then you'd have that full opportunity like you would have anywhere else with a complete loop around the building, but it's really a single entry single point until those things happen. Sorry, I'm struggling with my voice. Um then um there's stormwater retention on the south side and some on the north This is really primarily that's to receive rainwater um when with heavy downpours um and then delay and release it at a slower amount so that the uh the system can handle that and not flooding it. To the north and out, there's Well, I'll talk about the floor plan a little bit more, but to the north there's a fenced-in area. It didn't read as well as I'd like to up here, but um students
007can exit through either one of the wings or through a central area and there's playground adjacent, there's a running track one lane four lane type thing um with soft surface playground equipment, some hard surface four square, and I still don't quite understand the little game that goes on in that little hexagon with the wall. Someday I should just get in there and play it about. And then a couple basketball courts, and then turf or not turf, well, grass. Um so that you can it it's large enough to be able to have three soccer games crosswise. Who knows if there would actually be football going on, but we show it that way. Um so it's a large grass area that'll be irrigated um to keep it nice rather than hard. Um and then there's a wonderful
008landscape consultant on board who did, I believe, Coyote. Did they do Coyote as well? Um so they have similar themes going around the the building to soften a little bit, make it a bit more um is better word than in intimate, but something that kind of makes you feel like you're comfortable rather than just weeds and then building, which happens at a lot of districts. Um so that's really kind of it. Now, to get to the bus, there's really there's the Well, what I didn't show you is here's the primary entry into the building. Students from bus will come in on this side and then distribute through the facility. And then at the end of the day, they're welcome to go back out that way or exit out through these things, and we've made sure
009that those connections are as Excuse me, as um as easy as they can be. And then what's a little different on this one, and you I'll point it out more on the plan, is that rather than having the dumpsters and all of that stuff that was on the front side of Coyote, we've moved it to the back of the building so that any garbage trucks or deliveries or whatever are now separate from where all of this stuff is going on. So it's a step to make it more safer. More safer. Safer. Yeah. >> Just say safer. >> clarifying question. Walek Road there, I think on the south, is that right? >> Yep. >> Does it currently just dead end? You mean it >> Right now, this is all gravel from about here. But, um there's
010a concurrent project. The timing is a little fuzzy still, but they're going to develop this road all the way in and straight. I don't know what you call it, but it's a >> It's like a cloverleaf. >> Yeah. >> intersection. >> So, there's currently, if I just for one second, working with the city on this, you know, we have county and city properties out there as well as south side city water and sewer. That's sort of in a transition as well. And then, if you're familiar with this, Medicits kitty-corner off this corner, there's a development going in just north of it, directly west of our school up there. So, they're working with us. They're a little behind, but they've annexed in some of what's already south of us, but not north. And then, they're working
011on that. So, eventually, as we have the state involved on the state highway with the traffic signals, the county involved on the county pieces, and the city involved with the annex annex pieces. So, they are all working together with us to try and tie that all together. And eventually, um I I don't know the time frame, but eventually, and I wouldn't think too far into the future, both of those roads would be completed. When we first opened, the buses looked like they will probably come in on Walek and exit to the south and go back out. There's a light just south of us, and they'll exit out that stoplight. Um until they get that completely developed. >> They'll exit out where they're going in, right? They go around. >> They'll loop. >> And if they
012are turning, if they're I guess my biggest concern, if they have to turn left onto Walek >> They're going to come this way. They're coming here and down, and they're going >> go that way out. Okay. So, I just was thinking of traffic if in White Oaks at those are >> at the end of Wolcott that they're looking to add. >> Okay. And do you know if there if that to be developed, is that are they looking at more industrial park to the east of >> I don't know what all of it is, but Metta's over there and then part of it is at Earnest development which was I'm assuming is a lot of residential. >> All right. Thank you. So will there be crosswalks in in Frontage anywhere for the safety of the kids
013to think walk? >> There's really not safe locations to go cross right now. >> I'm sorry. >> Not a safe locations. >> Oh. >> What? >> Sorry. >> Um that design Adam is HDR's design with the county and we have crosswalks I believe there's three across there from the from the development to the south of the park to the south. Um so we have those designated exactly so that for after ball and for the school. >> And there's a tremendous amount of new signage coming along as well along Wolcott. >> Yeah, one thing I haven't mentioned we work very closely with them to turn develop some turn in Oh here, sorry. Turn in lane to here, turn in lane here so that when this is more traffic it is those vehicles can pull up and
014out of the way and this is long enough to really um >> hold quite a few cars. >> few of those cars so that hopefully they're you know the the the biggest challenge every time you do a school is how many people are short coming it and doing this and then kids are running through that traffic. I as an architect we can't do anything about that so it's joy of being on site every day. >> And so right now you can see that there's not a lot of like there's not a sidewalk along the other side so that's a part of Wolcott's. They're bringing sidewalk all the way across there so currently there wasn't good locations to walk at all. Um >> But there's >> But that's an extension all the way across. >> There's
015not a lot out there much past Apple Blossom right now. Like you get down to the Um there's a trailer park community kind of across the street. And that's a big open field and there's currently nothing and on the other side there's currently nothing. So there's not a lot of traffic flowing through there right now, but you add 10 schools in there and a whole bunch of 650 students. Yes. One minute. Yes. >> What What is this um the loop to drop off kids? No, not over there, but this compared to Coyote Ridge. >> It It's uh a similar length. It might actually be able to queue a few more cars and it's really developed. >> Coyote Ridge is filled. You know, they start coming early, but >> Yeah. >> Thank you. >> Okay. >>
016I think it's wonderful that the county and the state and the uh WYDOT and the city and the school district or you guys are all communicating as we put stuff together. I think that's going to be great. >> We're trying to do as well as we can with what we know right now. Anticipating of what will happen in the future, but we've done everything we can for the safety of the students getting to the site. >> Thanks. Thanks. What is the timeline for starting, you know? >> 20 What is this? 20 28. >> We're starting it? >> This summer. >> Oh, okay. >> Well, I'm sorry. >> It'll open in 28. >> It's supposed to open in fall of >> Yeah, it'll open in fall of 28 and >> Both schools? >> Both. And uh
017again, the bids are due to Wednesday on Arp and about a month out on this one. >> Sorry to throw you off track there. >> No, this is good. >> Great information, but >> This is >> Yeah. >> I really like conversations more than just telling you. >> We don't have HDRs information to present, but that is something, I guess. Adds to the conversation. >> Um This is supposed to be kind of a morning shot when students are arriving and the sun's still I don't know if it's bands and tennis and whatever architecty stuff. Um Uh it's an all brick facility. Um It's easy to identify the entry. Uh there's a couple other things that have happened. We've tried to create a little spot for if students are hanging outside waiting for a ride or
018something to have a place to actually sit. Um Not a whole lot to talk about here. So, as I said, security is always paramount when we work on schools or design schools. So, as you know, I think you know, this is really a product the evolution of a prototype based on both two schools go, um Coyote and then >> Meadowlark, there you go. And I think Coyote evolved a little bit. This one's evolved a little bit more, but just to remind you, the first secure point in the building is the pri- the main vestibule. It's locked down all the time until this person says you can go. Um Then once you're in this portion of the building, you uh the facility has the ability to be locked down right here so that when there are
019large groups here for, you know, basketball tournaments or I'm most people have sat in one of those waiting for their kid to play the next game or whatever. Um, nobody's allowed to go north um past this point. And that's very intentional that we have some uh a large uh facility uh bathroom facility, but then there's one here, too. So, they're kind of spread out a little bit. And what's nice about having this one here uh is that it also serves for when the school is in session. So, there's a bathroom up here for all of these kids, bathroom here for all of these kids, but it is an opportunity for everybody on the way to the gymnasium. And then, this is an evolution because on Coyote Ridge, there were some kind of bathrooms tucked in
020back around a corner or something like that. Um, so anyways, um So, then the third layer So, if something happens and someone were to breach this area, those doors close. Those are solid wood heavy doors. Slows people down, buys you time. You use all of your buying time. Then, if for some reason that is breached, then each one of these pods has another pair of doors that will close. Solid wood doors. Slows people down. Um, so I always call it the three layers um of security. Um, actually, I was going to switch. Close your eyes. This isn't supposed to be here yet. I just got some new imagery to show you. So, in these uh Shannon, you haven't seen these yet. So, these are something that we'll have a quick conversation about, but I have
021six images, as you can see. And we're just playing with um you know, everything that we design, every surface it matters to how somebody feels and um if it if it has an impact on their anxiety and things like that, as well as the acoustics and how the natural light reflects and things. Artsy-fartsy architecty stuff, but it matters. So, um my team is still working on some of the color selections and um these are just a few of them. They're all slightly different. But, we do tons of iterations on every space in the building to try and refine that down to um this one's very black. Um so, don't don't worry about which one it is yet. We'll have that conversation. Um but, I just wanted to share that that common space Let's look at
022one that's a little brighter. I don't know. When you come into that entry space, here's the admin area. You've been allowed to enter this space. It's either during the day or in the evening. Um we've really tried to and you'll see this later in the presentation. Um some warmer materials. Um warmer materials calm people. Um they're well, it depends on your personal style at home, but um they're sometimes they they're associated with being old type things. So, anyways, um you know, a lot of kids coming in here. Um we have a lot of natural light like you've seen at Coyote Ridge. Um the ceiling is softer than Coyote Ridge. Um no additional cost. It's just how that layer is in there. Um we've introduced a little bit of wood a high so that they can't
023touch it. Um but, there's some acoustic that does some things acoustically as well as warm that space up a little bit. Um and then some softer acoustic panel opportunities. Um and then we've tried to identify from a wayfinding point of view this is clear that this is performing arts. I forget the order of these, but choir and band and um instrumental or something like that. Orchestra. Um can't really see it in this particular image, but here's where you get your food. Obviously, the gymnasium is beyond. Um we've opened up that rest or at least the hand washing portion of that restroom to make it more visible so that you can't harass or bully people behind a door. Um and then it's easier access for the students to wash their hands um before or after they
024eat, if they just come in or if they're going out, as well as this might not make sense, but there's a bathroom up here, too. I showed you those two options. They can pass by there as well. And then the admin area. >> Is there a stage in that area? >> Yeah, the stage on Coyote Ridge folded down from here, but now the stage is in the gym. With the with all the bleachers. >> With a similar setup. What's that? >> With a similar setup. >> Okay. >> So it still collapses and comes out when it's needed. >> Um okay. Switch back to the other one. Okay. I wanted to point out some of the things that have evolved through Coyote Ridge so that you're aware of these. These are very intentional for specific reasons
025and things like that. Um this is Coyote Ridge. Um I don't know how well you are at reading floor plans, but that's what it looked like. So Coyote Ridge we increased the student population uh to 650. It's fed by 10 elementary schools. Um and so the square footage >> What's the population of Coyote Ridge? >> 550, okay. >> These these are nominal numbers, so >> Okay. >> Um and then Oh, so with that come you need a bigger building. So we increased the square footage to about 92,500. Um and some of the things that we've done, um the biggest one is you can see that the building was stretched. Katie Ridge had a special needs area kind of tucked in here. Apparently it was kind of last minute so they they did the best they
026could. I think everybody agrees that the people that utilize those facilities deserve access to natural light. Shouldn't be buried in the middle of the building and everything. So we took that piece and there's additional programming because you'll have a higher higher need in this location from what I understand. So we took that and we moved it to here. So now there's access, there's windows, natural light and all of the additional amenities that come with those types of spaces. In reality this is this special needs is kind of through here and then there's some support spaces here if you're going to meet with a social social worker >> social worker >> and the other >> So that was very important. I think everybody appreciated that. That intentional move. Another thing is the media center was in
027the middle of the building here. It's a very important space. There's a lot of reasons we can talk about before that but we moved it to an exterior. So now again more natural light. Yet you can have you know if you're reading a book you can look outside directly rather than through a layer of glass and then through a little pinch point. And by by that gesture pulled these apart so now these are much broader areas. I'll try not to get too artsy fartsy all the time but so we did those two things. Each one of these uh we added a classroom. And then there was some modifications to some of the support spaces that go into those. Um so each one of these were six. On Coyote Ridge, we're at seven. Um Moving down,
028I've already mentioned how bus drop-off and pick-up will be through this. Um there are opportunities to do it here and here, but depends on how the principal or how people like to do that. Some people really like every way to to come in there so they can say hi as they're coming in or whatever as they're leaving. Have a great day. Um and then the main entrance on the front. The What's new on this one is now there is a meeting room directly off the vestibule. So in the evening, if there is a whatever >> PTA meetings >> PTA meeting, there's all kinds of things that can happen in there. Um I coached baseball for 15 years, we were dying for spaces like that to have meetings and stuff. So Um they can come in,
029have direct access to it. There's storage, cabinetry, and a a bathroom within there. They don't need to go anywhere else in the facility. Um so that's kind of new. Um then on Coyote Ridge, you'll see that this was a 45° angle. It kind of narrows your sight a little bit, so I took it and I rotated it down so it's a 30° angle. It broadened your view out to any anybody coming that way. Um So that that helped a little bit. Then you'll notice on Coyote Ridge, the the desk is or the the the at the the reception area is kind of inside of the building and has no view out there. So what what we did here is we slid everything down a little bit. So now the people at that front desk and
030see outside rather than just into the best field. So, you have more time to react if needed. Um So, that's kind of all that, you know, there's quite a bit of stuff that happened there. Then, one of the things on Coyote is that MEP space was downstairs. We brought that up to grade, which solved all kinds of challenges. So, that is now in this area. It's a traditional way of doing it for schools. And then, this was the front of the building and your trash and everything was happening here. That's now on the the backside over here. So, now you have mechanical, electrical, you have your kitchen, receiving and everything kind of on the backside rather than the front side. And you can control when people have access. I don't have the site plan handy,
031but um it just it's much safer. Uh some of the exterior finishes, um don't focus on these too much. It's an It's an example of what they could like look like. It really looks Yeah, that's not the greatest example either, I guess, but these are the bricks that have been chosen. Um two tones. Um there's all kinds of gestures through the building and I I'm not going to burn a bunch of time, but a lot of the uh things you see are very intentional and um it's about bringing 10 groups of people together to form uh the the next group in your educational process. Um I could shoot I could talk a half an hour about that, but um >> But, it is the importance of the weaving of all the schools and them coming
032together and um we all know the importance of that. Um I'm here so dedicated. >> That main entry, there's a a light fixture in there. It has 10 pendants on it and things like that. So, there's there's things you wouldn't know about it unless you were told about it, but if you ever wanted to talk about there's very intentional reasons for those things. Um, this goes back to the beginning. I asked the team to come up with a warm palette of finishes. Um, Ansley's been very involved in uh working through this with some of the GLG interior designers. Um, I think it works really well. I think everybody who has seen it has appreciated it. It's not a cold palette. It's more a warmer palette. Um, this could use a lot more development, but this
033is one of the learning um, I forget what term we're using here. >> neighborhoods >> commons >> neighborhood, there we go. Depending on where you are, it's a different word. So, a neighborhood is great. Um, but it's very similar to what you saw at Coyote. Um, the garage doors, which are an amazing feature if you want to start utilizing some various grouping or typically things that um, are more shared activities rather than uh we can talk about teaching theory forever. Um, but um we've done a couple things. Um, we've introduced the light well into that space. Um, rather than just having some little openings at the end of the hallway through a door. Um, you you it it's um, it's all reflected light. We've tried to put some color in those locations to warm up
034the space a little bit. Um, this is a little old in that this this is a small group room. This is actually turned out here. It it works so much better. There's a display board here. It's hard to keep all of these images up to date, so that's evolved. Um, but again, we've introduced a nice warm finish there. Um, It's a very durable material. It's not paint or a thin material. It has thickness to it. You don't see the carpet or anything, but this was an earlier image at like the BB level. Media center, warm colors again, access to natural light. This is really glared out. Um But a couple >> at sunset. >> But >> It's west facing at sunset, though. >> Yeah. Yeah. And this is not outside. This is actually a I
035don't know if that's stuck or not, to be honest with you. Um So, don't think that's a window there. Um but um the furniture will be developed with the FF&E package. I know there's been comments about well, we Does it make sense to run these shelving all the way up? Sometimes we do that for like artifacts that you just don't want people touching very often. Um but the district can kind of work through that. Another view back. So, this view is now I'm going to take you over here. We've actually since modified this window's out and now there's a display there for this area so that you can interact with students and do whatever you want to do in there. Um a little seating area so kids have an opportunity to sit down and have
036some It's probably not these chairs, um but they're they're placeholders essentially. A little bit of acoustical treatment to deaden the sound in there a little bit more. >> It's probably not those trees, either. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, sometimes I can't Yeah, well, anyway, so go down that road. Um so, that We're at 30 minutes there. I try to I can talk about anything. >> So, do you have any questions up to this point or >> One of the when you saw the two schools side by side there and it was stretched and expanded a little bit um couple of things are obvious the obvious thing I think what Ron pointed out but um you know obviously a classroom's added to each grade level there and then in the middle that getting bigger
037the state allowed us um it was 7,500 square feet for um um our life skills additional life skills and because of the title one population out there and the additional rooms and help and and staff that we need. So um that's what has stretched that as well is the additional square footage along with the cafeteria that comes with the amount of kids. >> And the gym's a little I think there was an enhance enhanced to the gym maybe that was >> Yeah and a small amount of square footage as well. >> So a point of note by me >> Oh yeah. >> This is 27% or so of special needs whether that's autism versus mobility issues or what have you. So life skills is really improved and so we're very very thankful for that century
038room and another area for adaptive PE. Those are some support areas that we didn't have at Coyote Ridge we're very thankful to have it here. So yeah we're very grateful. And >> Right and that's mostly due to just just by several several factors >> But anyway um and talk about going forward a little bit we haven't had any meetings on any of these schools so again with our bidding this week um we'll be anticipating probably uh groundbreaking early June we're hoping. Uh and then again this school running about 30 days behind we're anticipating bids in late June I think is what we've talked about third third week of June. And then so we'd be a groundbreaking sometime in July and I'll get some information out as soon as we have some dates set and some
039a little bit more solid. So. >> So, have they taken down the old arm? >> No. Um so, that is, you know, like in the last session was additional money we had to wait for. That's available, but because we're bidding this right now, um we bid it into the contract with the general contractor. Instead of having two contractors. So, that'll start uh when we break ground in June. That'll be the first segment that happens. >> All right. So, it's a >> Maybe we have a set date or something like that. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> This is beautiful. Thank you. >> Thank you. Yeah, I think it's all >> It's a warm as big as it is, but 650 students. >> Keep one next to you two days for little people. >> It's great areas for
040them. >> Any other questions for our guests before we let them get on their way this evening? >> It looks great. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> We'll be issuing every board member a personalized shovel and you can come join in the summer dig. >> Finally, right? You know, one of those smash cards.