Lakes Community High School
Lake Villa, Illinois
INTEGRATED SERVICES
Architecture,
Engineering,
Interior Design and
Planning
PROJECT SIZE
272,000 SF
COMPLETION
2004
The District projected enrollment of 3,145 students by 2010. To accommodate this growth, OWP/P designed a second high school for 1,500 students with infrastructure for 2,000 students in Lake Villa, Polley Field. The design features a flexible learning environment that allows the school to function as a comprehensive high school or as four instructional clusters to create smaller internal schools. Each cluster has collaborative teacher preparation areas, classrooms that enable inter-disciplinary teaching, science labs and specialized labs. Shared spaces include a commons area, media center, cafeteria, auditorium and athletic spaces.
OWP/P also designed community buildings and athletic fields on campus that integrate with the existing natural landscape and wetlands.