Given the fact that the program largely dictates the form of the building (a 10,500 SF middle school gym comprised of a 100' x 100' gym / assembly floor plus lobby, restrooms, storage and walkway), we have taken the relationships between structure, skin, and size to drive the project’s redefinition of what big boxes can do.

The structure is a modified K-brace that instead of a redundant bay-by-bay system, it is conceived as a totalized, fully kinetic edge-to-edge system.

The canopy anchors the ground into the gym, back to the main campus level (one story stucco construction). This is reinforced by the gym's siting, which has been set back to allow for a gathering space in front of it with a number of flexible public and semi-public conditions, half covered by the diagonal plane that serves as canopy and exterior covered gathering area.