Preliminary Educational Specification and Facilities Master Plan

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Preliminary Educational Specification
and Facilities Master Plan LSRT Modernization
Committee Presentation To WW PTSA December 8,
2004
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Preliminary Educational Specification and
Facilities Master Plan

• Program Summary
• Objectives of Ed Spec and Master Plan Study
• Planning Area G History
• Time Line and Planning Process
• Key Facility Systems Problems
• Design Problems
• Site Problems
• Location Options for Major Spaces
• Area/Program Comparison Summary

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Preliminary Educational Specification and
Facilities Master Plan Study

• Objectives
• Provide input from Wilson to DPR on issues to be
  addressed in the planning, design and location of
  the aquatic facility
• Provide facilities management tool for DCPS and
  Wilson
• Existing floor plans
• Space usage
• Form basis for comprehensive modernization of
  Woodrow Wilson High School

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Preliminary Educational Specification and
Facilities Master Plan Study

• Planning Area G designated Wilson as 1 priority
  for modernization
• Significance of school to community
• Desire to serve large, diverse student population
• Overall poor conditions of facility
• Need for modern design modifications
• Need to increase capacity for 9th grade (Deal)
• Should precede Hardy and Deal renovations

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Preliminary Educational Specification and
Facilities Master Plan Study

• Time Line and Planning Process
• Began SY 2002-03 by Modernization Committee
• Site visits to other public and private high
  schools
• Hastened by collapse of pool wall July 5, 2003
• Meetings with DCPS, DPR and K Patterson re Pool
• Successful effort to get funding for Pool in
  Mayors FY04 FY05 capital budgets (8 million)
• Multiple meetings w/LSRT, PTSA, faculty staff
• Obtained limited financing for study from PTSA

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• Time Line and Planning Process (contd)
• Issuance of questionnaires to faculty staff
• Walk through/review of existing facilities
• School-wide open meeting Jan 29, 2004
• Multiple presentations of study progress to full
  LSRT and DCPS over Spring Summer 2004
• Presentation to DPR Sept 29, 2004
• Presentation approval by LSRT Oct 6, 2004

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Preliminary Educational Specification and
Facilities Master Plan Study

• Key Facility Problems at Wilson
• Pool closed due to building wall collapse
• Heating plumbing systems exceeded expected life
• No central air condition system
• Windows installed in early 90s
• Improperly designed, required modification
• Still substandard, many damaged, cloudy
  dangerous

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• Key Facility Problems at Wilson (Contd)
• Electrical system never fully updated
• Original slate roof has deferred maintenance
• Gutters and downspouts deplorable and creating
  damage to interior walls, windows, hallways,
  ceilings, paint
• No ventilation in gym locker rooms
• Gym divider inoperable, lighting flooring poor
• Inadequate handicap accessibility

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Preliminary Educational Specification and
Facilities Master Plan Study

• Design Problems with Existing Facility
• Security
• Numerous doors, impossible to monitor
• Inadequate life safety system
• Main Office
• Located at original, no longer functional
  entrance
• Far from functional main entrance
• Lacks adequate meeting and conference space

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• Design Problems with Existing Facility (Contd)
• Existing space utilization
• Some space under utilized, others over utilized
• Without modifications, some utilization cannot be
  remedied
• Auditorium
• Poor A/V, acoustics, lighting production
  capabilities
• No small theatre venue
• Gymnasium
• Not sufficient PE and athletic space for 1500
  students

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• Design Problems with Existing Facility (Contd)
• Library
• Located in converted gym, away from classroom
  core
• Totally open environment
• No specific quiet area
• Lacks many qualities appropriate to library
  spaces
• Visual Arts Classrooms
• Not located near auditorium or each other
• Substandard (former shower room) lacking light,
  ventilation and instruction amenities

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Preliminary Educational Specification and
Facilities Master Plan Study

• Site Problems with Existing Facility
• School Entrance
• No clearly articulated functional front entrance
• Mixes students with delivery of goods
• Needs to be co-located adjacent to major
  administrative spaces
• Service Access
• Competes with front door
• Lacks loading dock and easy access

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• Site Problems with Existing Facility (Contd)
• Exterior Athletic Space
• Inadequate, with only one playing field
• Less than regulation track
• No regulation baseball diamond
• Field overused no bathrooms
• Parking
• Insufficient off-street and un-metered parking
  for staff and visitors

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Preliminary Educational Specification and
Facilities Master Plan Study

• Location Options for Major Spaces
• Pool
• Rebuild at current location, but with improved
  siting and more parking (underground)
• Create athletic complex with pool, main gym and
  auxiliary gym demolish 1971 gym, move library
  build new pool gym return library to auxiliary
  gym
• Demolish existing library, construct pool and
  auxiliary gym there and on part of parking lot
  move library

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• Location Options for Major Spaces (Contd)
• Library/Media Center
• Complete modernization in current location
• Relocate to courtyard of academic building (with
  careful analysis of impact on function of
  existing and proposed new main entrance)
• Relocate in new construction adjacent to
  auditorium on south side
• Relocate in new construction in Rose Garden

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• Location Options for Major Spaces (Contd)
• Main Entrance
• Improve signage at existing entrance and signs
  that direct visitors, students, staff to main
  office
• Build a main office addition onto existing
  building to create new formal, functional
  entrance to meet space and security requirements,
  increasing space for administration and providing
  passive security

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• Location Options for Major Spaces (Contd)
• Gymnasium
• Renovate existing gym properly divide and
  appropriately ventilate modernize supporting
  spaces (locker rooms, team rooms, weight rooms,
  showers and restrooms)
• Demolish and rebuild in current or closely
  related location
• Auditorium/Performing Arts
• Renovate existing auditorium to bring acoustics,
  light and stage equipment up to modern standards
• Create small theatre venue for audience of
  150-250

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• Location Options for Major Spaces (Contd)
• Parking
• Current number of spaces inadequate not properly
  marked for handicapped spaces
• Off-street spaces spread over 3-4 locations
• Likely to lose spaces with construction of new
  pool
• Cursory calculation would require a total of more
  than 150 off-street spaces

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Preliminary Educational Specification and
Facilities Master Plan Study

• Area/Program Comparison Summary
• Cox Graae Spack space documentation chart
  compares space uses and square footages with DCPS
  standard Education Specifications
• New chart represents proposed configuration of
  spaces and square footage to meet defined
  programmatic needs

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