AVENUES SILICON VALLEY

The Avenues Silicon Valley Masterplan project is located in San Jose, California and sits on an approximately 11.87 acre site at the prominent intersection of Race Street and Parkmoor Avenue. The expansive Toddler through 12^th grade campus is 485,155 square foot above grade floor area for up to 2,744 students and 480 faculty members. The project has successfully completed an EIR.

The masterplan includes both adaptive re-use of the existing buildings on site as well as ground up construction with vast expanses of landscaping and outdoor programmed spaces, including playscapes as well as regulation sporting.

The existing buildings include two 3-story office buildings and a parking garage. The office buildings are fitted out to include classrooms and other academic and support facilities including common spaces, theaters, and dining halls. The parking garage, in addition to housing the parking needs for the school, is also partially retrofitted to include a rooftop playscape.

The Adaptive Reuse component of the existing building includes the Strategic Addition of the Portal which stitches the two existing office buildings together with outdoor public spaces and bridges on all floors, allowing them to function as one building.

The Gymnasium Building stretches along the Northern edge of the site adjoining to the existing parking garage on one end and facing towards Race Street on the other. The Performing Arts Building, which connects to the Gymnasium Building, and the Academic Tower define a vibrant and welcoming street wall along Race Street and anchors the campus at the intersection of Race Street and Parkmoor Ave and connects to the San Jose Light Rail Station: Race St.

The Gymnasium building features the Gymnatorium, which includes a full regulation sporting facility in addition to the ability to flexibility transform into an auditorium. The gymnatorium, located on the second story, features a grand floor to ceiling glass curtain-wall that faces towards the open spaces of the campus.

The Performing Arts Building, which also houses the central school commons, contains a black box theater with a visual connection to the multi-tiered commons, through an interior glazed-wall behind the main stage. The multi-tiered commons that create a ‘theater of learning’ are fully accessible at all tiers with a funicular running along the side of the space.

The Main Campus Walk sits along the Gymnasium building, bookended by the Portal on the West and the Performing Arts Building on the East. The Campus Walk acts as the central spine connecting all the buildings and outdoor programmed spaces of the site.

The Central Quad is framed in the center of the site by 2 additional academic buildings on the southern end of the campus. The Quad also doubles as a high school regulation soccer pitch.

The Urban Edge is built up to be an active and vibrant street wall condition that includes native landscaping and water retention bio-swales.

One of the main features of the edge condition is the Portal, which opens and welcomes the community of San Jose into the site and to engage with the campus and the Avenues community.