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Healy Bender’s scope of services for SWHS includes developing individual and overall space summaries and a vision statement regarding how the school will be distinct. Summaries include student enrollment statistics; required classrooms, labs, and other teaching settings such as gyms; required spaces for special education programs; and special studies and findings of research regarding community ideas and key functional relationships to be met in the development of SWHS. Healy Bender will develop detailed programming, such as defining every room in regards to its electrical, mechanical, and height requirements. “We’re also working on a special study regarding community and cultural influences,” said Mike Griebel of Healy Bender. “It’s critical to review unique characteristics that will influence design and construction, as it is our expectation that SWHS will support after hours community activities as well as health community clinics for students and family centers.”
A school can be just a school, serving its purpose of educating students in preparation of adult life, or it can be that and much more. The SWHS visioning session participants concluded that the school will be much more. SWHS will be an active hub for formal and informal study with evening and weekend learning capacity. It will be safe and secure and a positive and powerful gathering place for the community. Much more than a building, SWHS will blend school academics and activities with community function and interaction. “There is currently nothing even remotely like SWHS in Albuquerque,” said Susan Johnson of FBT. The visioning session resulted in a high school that will be for everyone.
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