![]() The LEED-Gold renovation features a 325-kilowatt solar array-the largest of any school in the state-topping much of the main building and covering an outdoor bike shelter between the gym and the theater. The old gym is now an arts center-daylit by a skylight. To shed light on such activities, linear luminaires now zigzag through the halls and facilitate wayfinding while providing a break from the building’s architectural formality. At the building’s ends, stairwells are flanked by “collaborative forums,” with stepped concrete seating for classes, guest speakers, and a biannual student-run event centered around discussions about race and diversity. ![]() The architects opened the central flights on all levels, so each landing faces a school asset: a theater, meeting room for alumni, and one of several glass-walled CTE spaces, where equipment, from sewing machines to 3-D printers, is displayed like items in a gallery. Windows in the bay filter daylight into the basement, where one of two new cafeterias and a fitness lab now spill onto sunken courtyards. Inside, dreary double-loaded halls lined with lockers have been transformed, with large classrooms on the building’s historic side that open to a “collaboration corridor”: a mix of various-size meeting spaces and smaller, open-plan offices. New windows and terraces illuminate former basement spaces. So, of course, did students, with Campbell inviting full-throated participation from kids of color and those who identify as transgender. Faculty, parents, preservationists, and neighborhood activists weighed in. In decades of designing over 200 schools, the architects at Mahlum had never engaged in such a collaborative design process, says project designer Rene Berndt: more than 100 user-group meetings, four public workshops, and a dozen meetings with a more than 20-person design-advisory group (DAG). Hired to substantially upgrade the school in 2015, the local office of Mahlum Architects quickly learned that when Campbell uses the pronoun “we,” she means it. “We had a chance to break up that model to deliver instruction more creatively.” “Grant was built in 1923 for the way education has been delivered over the last 100 years,” she says. When voters passed a school bond directing $138 million to Grant, Campbell turned down the job of district superintendent to lead the school’s modernization. ![]() Every September, you can find him harvesting lavender from his field.In 38 years as an educator, Carol Campbell has enjoyed many at Portland, Oregon’s Grant High School: nine years as a teacher, a parent of two graduates, and-after stints as principal at two other regional high schools-she was back to lead it in 2013. Outside of work, Jim enjoys spending time outdoors and embracing nature. He prioritizes listening to a client’s needs and implementing design elements that exceed expectations. Jim has designed over 500 affordable housing units in Oregon and is inspired by residents who tell him their home is the nicest one they’ve had. ![]() He enjoys the collaborative nature of design and construction, where he can interact with people possessing diverse skill sets and solve complex issues. Jim jokes that during his 40 years as a practicing architect, he’s designed a goat barn with a milking parlor and cheese cellar for an artisan cheesemaker, a 7-story luxury hotel, and everything in between. These experiences inspired his career today, he serves as the Co-Director of the firm’s Bend office. Exposed to architecture at a young age, Jim’s appreciation for the trade grew after visiting his father’s projects that were under construction. ![]()
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