Article source: TEF Design

Delivered on an extremely modest budget, the new Caliber Schools ChangeMakers Academy exploits color and subtle design strategies to transform an otherwise unconventional but banal tilt-up concrete structure, while leveraging its creative potential as a community-building agent.

Serving more than 1,000 students on two campuses, Caliber Public Schools is a charter organization whose mission is to shift the experience, expectation and outcomes for students in historically underserved communities and provide them with a rigorous K-12 education so that they can enter a four-year college without remediation. The client asked TEF to develop a new, ground up TK-8 school to support anticipated growth exceeding the capacity of its existing school in Richmond, California.

Image Courtesy © David Wakely

• Architects: TEF Design
• Project: Caliber ChangeMakers Academy
• Location: Vallejo, California
• Photography: David Wakely
• Contractor:  Hilbers Inc.
• Structural: BKG Structural Engineers
• Mechanical/Electrical/Plumving: MHC Engineers, Inc.
• Civil Engineer: CSW | ST2
• Landscape: Stephen Wheeler Landscape Architects

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