Montgomery High School Classroom Building

The new, Montgomery High School classroom building is a striking 26,852 SF, 2-story structure, which replaced aging relocatable classrooms on the 60-year-old site.

The building is bookended by reddish-orange porcelain panels that reference adjacent brick facades. The building is situated to allow daylighting into the corridor and take advantage of views to the nearby creek and hills beyond. An undulating covered walkway connects the new classroom building to the existing campus playfully reimaging the flat roofed existing covered walkways.

Large windows allow natural light into the classrooms, one of the project’s many sustainable features. The design of the interior corridors reinforces the linearity of the school’s existing architecture; a narrow, 2 inch wide light fixture runs the length of the building, and is mirrored on the concrete floor by an embedded zinc strip of the same width. A small room adjacent to the main building entrance allows for student work of various types to be displayed. The project included associated site work and was completed on an active campus.