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Stowers Elementary & Barrington Middle Combination School
 Architect
Reynolds, Smith and Hills, Inc.
1715 North Westshore Boulevard, #500, Tampa, FL 33607
www.rsandh.com
General Description
Stowers Elementary School
Location:
Lithia, Florida
Date Bid: Nov 2007 Construction Period: Dec 2007 to July
2009
Total Square Feet: 102,653 Site: 32.75 acres. Number of
Buildings: Five. Building Size: Total, 102,653 square feet.
Building Height: First floor, 13’7”; second floor, 14’1”; total,
27’8”.
Basic Construction Type: New/IIB. Foundation:
Cast-in-place, slab-on-grade.
Exterior Walls: Tilt-up concrete, CMU. Roof: Metal,
modified bitumen.
Floors: Concrete. Interior Walls: CMU.
Barrington Middle School
Location:
Lithia, Florida
Date Bid: Nov 2007 Construction Period: Dec 2007 to July
2009
Total Square Feet: 150,607 Site: 32.75 acres. Number of
Buildings: Six.
Building Size: Total, 150,607 square feet. Building Height:
First floor, 13’7”; second floor, 14’1”; total, 27’8”. Basic
Construction Type: New/IIB.
Foundation: Cast-in-place, slab-on-grade. Exterior Walls:
Tilt-up concrete, CMU. Roof: Metal, modified bitumen. Floors:
Concrete. Interior Walls: CMU.
Construction Team
Structural Engineer: Master Consulting Engineers, Inc. - 5523
West Cypress Street, #200, Tampa, FL 33607
General Contractor & Cost Estimator: Batson-Cook Company - 101
East Kennedy Boulevard, #1750, Tampa, FL 33602
Mechanical & Electrical Engineer: Anston-Greenlees, Inc. - 1315
West Fletcher Avenue, Tampa, FL 33612
Landscape Architect: Anderson Lesniak Limited, Inc. - 4921 South
Westshore Boulevard, Tampa, FL 33611
Reynolds, Smith and Hills, Inc., a full service
Architectural/Engineering firm provided full design services for a
combined elementary and middle school campus for the School District of
Hillsborough County. Situated at a prominent location within the new
master planned community near the multifamily, commercial and single
family residential components in Lithia, Florida, the new Stowers/Barrington
school/park complex provides facilities to meet the needs of a growing
community. In order to achieve the strict criteria of the client’s
needs, the design team was tasked with creating a compact highly
efficient design.
The design process was informed by function and form starting with
building orientation, massing and, finally, the building form and
structure. Sited to present a positive face to the public the parking is
provided at the rear of the project and the shared school/park athletic
fields are located at the outside edges of the site to allow public
access. Links to the surrounding neighborhood and the regional trail
system are provided by a network of pedestrian pathways.
Meeting the new Florida classroom amendment criteria for small size
classrooms, Stowers Elementary School and Barrington Middle School are
two separate schools on the same site sharing common functions. A
1,538-student station middle school and a 940-student station elementary
school with associated parking, separate parent drop-offs, bus loading
and playfields for each school. Administration, guidance, student
services, media and dining are core functions. The chiller plants,
kitchen, service functions and staff parking are shared. Efficiencies
are gained by the sharing of chiller plants, kitchen, service functions
and shared staff parking. In addition, all classrooms and offices are
fitted with motion sensors, which control the lighting in the rooms.
This valuable energy management tool offers cost savings, which will be
experienced over the life of the schools. An open courtyard was designed
between the buildings creating an atmosphere conducive to group
discussions and gatherings. This courtyard provides a unique circulation
path between the schools.
The overall structure of the project was tilt-wall concrete, which
provided the most cost effective way to provide the overall 230,000
square feet of conditioned floor space the School District required. The
innovative use of form liners to create various reveals and textures, as
well as multiple banded exterior colors, created a look that is unique
and adds character to this type of construction. With the use of three
exterior wall colors – one field and two accent colors – the middle and
elementary schools can be easily distinguished from each other. Special
attention to the color choices of the buildings complements the forest
green entry canopies. The canopies vary in shape to provide the desired
architectural distinction in appearance.
As part of the holistic design process the school athletic facilities
were designed in conjunction with the needs of the Parks Department’s
after school recreation program and neighborhood recreation use. These
facilities are accessible for use by the local community after school
hours and tied to the community pedestrian and bicycle circulation
network and regional trail system.
Product Information
Roof: Soprema
Metal Roofing: Englert
VCT: Tarkett
Lighting: Icon, Metalux, Portfolio, Failsafe & McGraw
Glass: Viracon
Entrances & Storefronts: Architectural Metals, Inc.
Elevators: ThyssenKrupp
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