The High Tech High Graduate School of Education began as an extension of the High Tech High campus, offering an auditorium, classrooms and administrative support. It’s placement in the historic Naval Training Center created an opportunity to make the building a community nexus as well as an example of sustainable practices.
The new Graduate School of Education Program facility will be a 12,000 square foot; two-story building designed to engage the existing high school. The building will contain an auditorium, pre-function space, art gallery, classrooms, research lounge, faculty quarters, and administration offices. These will augment and enhance the educational concepts inside the building. To this end a living “green wall” is proposed on the southwest face of the building that carries the axis of a pedestrian mall into the vertical surface of the structure.
Additionally “Green Building” (LEED) technology will be employed in the design and construction of the facility. LEED certification will be part of the building criteria and many of the LEED components will themselves become part of the educational components of this program.
