2012-11-09 Windward Transcript Connections

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intermediate school classroom buildings. Between the two are shared specialized classrooms, like an art classroom and music classroom, as well a shade and green houses that would be shared between the elementary and intermediate programs. These buildings here in blue, this would be the new high school. Again, the high school classroom buildings. This building here, No. 6, would be sort of the specialized classroom buildings for STEM program, art, music. These two up here, again, would be the shade and green houses. And in this center portion of the campus would be the shared facilities, so we’d have the administrative building, a library resource center, and the dining and cafeteria facility. This edge of the campus here we have the proposed barn. This facility here would be the gymnasium multipurpose building which would serve as the school’s great room. And so this would be for school-wide, you know, events, where all the student body could gather in one place as well as serving as an indoor play area for when it rains. This small facility here would be the intergenerational program, and then up here would be the caretaker’s residence and the dorm facilities.So this is, this campus is being envisioned as very small scaled single story buildings. You know, we realize this is in a residential area and so we want the design of the campus to fit in with that and complement the sort of residential feel. And so this wouldn’t be like your typical institutional school buildings. So these sort of design concepts were developed by Urban Works. And then this Exhibit 2 shows sections of selected buildings. You can see they’re all fairly small scaled, one story in height. And they would be designed to be elevated off the ground to minimize the site work that would be needed on the property. These conceptual renderings, showing Exhibit 1, kind of gives you a flavor, the architectural flavor, that’s being thought of for the school. And, again, it’s very small scaled, one story buildings, you know, to work with the existing landscaping and to sort of fit in. And as, you know, Dakota has mentioned, one of the main visions for the school is that it be a model of sustainability. And so what’s being planned to be incorporated is, you know, a lot of sustainable features. The buildings are oriented to maximize natural lighting, natural ventilation, minimizing heat gain, as well as, you know, use of photovoltaics to reduce energy demand. And, you know, the other feature that we’re looking at is, is maximizing the use of nonpotable water. So using rain catchment, using recycled water, to minimize the demands on, you know, precious natural resources, which is potable water. So, again, that kind of gives you a little bit more information of what’s being proposed for this campus. And, you know, I’d like to stress that right now, like I said, this is in the very early planning stages; and so this is a conceptual plan. You know, what you see here is not fixed in stone. This plan really sort of represents sort of the ultimate vision for the school. And, you know, like Jeff had mentioned the timetable for this is, you know, perhaps 16 to 25 years. So it’s, this whole thing is not going to appear on the property at one time. It’s going to be developed slowly. But at most this is what it’s going to be. I mean it’s not going to be any bigger than this. This is the ultimate vision. And, again, it’s at a concept level right now. As we get into the next phase of design when, you know, the engineering details are worked out and the architectural details, you know, this may be modified somewhat. So there’s room, there’s room to adjust the plan, not only to, to address, you know, site specific information that comes up during, you know, the engineering design and architectural design, but as well to address 12 EXHIBIT A