Tour and Happy Hour

In-person or Virtual

Mountain View High School Tour

April 11, 2023
4:30 – 5:30 pm Pacific

1500 SE Blairmont Drive
Vancouver, WA 98683

The design for Mountain View High School’s new 275,000 sf building prioritizes visibility, safety, and student empowerment. To serve and consider all student needs and teaching/learning modalities, the building includes a rich variety of spatial typologies and environments. The intent is to create learning options that invite and empower students to participate and collaborate with one another, and extend this across all spaces. For a school of its size and scope, its unifying theme is a sense of closeness and camaraderie that defines the daily student/teacher experience. From the onset, the team at LSW worked closely with staff, students and community representatives to harness their insight in hopes of understanding what makes Mountain View a unique place to learn. During this process, an existing strong cultural theme emerged: “Thunder Family”, capturing the way students and staff at Mountain View interact with and treat one another and how the community rallies behind the school. It’s no surprise that “Thunder Family” became a strong reference point for the design. With such a large campus, a key objective was to make the school’s multifaceted learning environments visible and accessible to students. The goal was to build a sense of unity and personalization to the school by breaking its scale down into connected areas.

Learning Objectives:

• Showing how safety/security were prioritized: Safety and security were a key priority from day 1, leading to the creation of a prominent, visible main entry that faces the pedestrian and vehicular access to the site.
• Highlighting the flexibility/accessibility of learning spaces: Personalized learning experiences are centered on the unique interests and needs of learners, providing multiple entry points, paths for learning, and ways to showcase work. The goal was to build a sense of unity and personalization to the school by breaking its scale down into connected areas.
• Showcase visual transparency and vertical connection as a way of breaking down the scale: These were important factors in facilitating the transition from a one-story to a three-story building.
• Supporting teacher/student interaction: By centralizing the classes, services, and environments around a common loop or circuit, the intention was to user-flow that supports the way teachers and staff already interacted.

Project Team:
Architect of Record: LSW Architects
Landscape Architect: Shapiro Didway
Structural Engineer: Kramer Gehlen & Associates, Inc.
Electrical & Mechanical Engineer: Glumac
Civil Engineer: Robertson Engineering
Contractor: Skanska
Specialized Consultants:
   Acoustics & AV: Listen Acoustics
   Security / Access Controls: Reyah Consulting, LLC
   Theater Consultant: PLA Designs
   Envelope Consultant: PRC
Owner: Evergreen Public Schools

4:30 pm – 5:30 pm	Tour Mountain View High School 1500 SE Blairmont Drive Vancouver, WA 98683
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm	Happy Hour Hopworks Urban Brewery Vancouver 17707 SE Mill Plain Blvd. Vancouver, WA 98683

Members: Free | Non-members: $20
Event Sponsor: $250

Last day to register: April 10, 2023 at 3:00 pm Pacific

Virtual link will be sent out the morning of April 11, 2023.