Size: 106,000 SF,

Scope: Full Architectural - Programming through Construction

Location: Aurora, CO

Budget: $16.5 million

The P-8 was designed with two equal, but separate, two story academic wings. Each wing houses 8 core curriculum classrooms per floor.  This allows the school to be organized in a variety of ways. In a traditional model where grades are located adjacent to each other, two grades of four classes each can be located together.  For a school within a school model, each floor could house one class each for grades 1 through 8.  Vista Peak opened its doors organized under the traditional model.

All of the special classrooms are located in the core, equidistant from each wing. The gymnasium and cafeteria are designed to be accessed before and after school hours without allowing access to the rest of the school.