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Patriot High School Riverside, California		Photography: Fred Daly, Daly Architectural Photography Conrado Lopez, 2_L Studio 2006 CMACN Awards Edition, “CMU Profiles in Architecture”         Credits Back to Publications
Sustainable Jury Comments: Tall ceilings, daylight, and operable windows bringing in fresh air are features of this high performance school. An efficient central plant is used in lieu of packaged equipment to minimize maintenance cost and to increase energy efficiency. Windows are interlocked with the HVAC system to disable heating and cooling to rooms when the windows are open. The new high school for Jurupa High School District is located a few miles west of downtown Riverside. A portion of the site has been set aside as a nature preserve, with many mature eucalyptus, pepper and palm trees. The district has chosen to focus on the classroom as a true “learning laboratory,” resulting in many of the classrooms being larger than the State standard of 960 square feet. The size of the standard classroom is being increased to 1,150 square feet. The district stressed the importance of natural lighting in all of the learning laboratories. The integration of computer technology is also another priority for the classrooms. Flexibility should be inherent to the high school, allowing for alternative educational philosophies to be easily integrated. The Patriot High School campus utilized concrete masonry unit materials at a number of locations. The entire campus has been finished with a masonry wainscot, that in addition to providing a durable exterior wall finish that can stand up to high school facility abuse, also provides a visually attractive concrete masonry base to each of the buildings. The Physical Education complex at Patriot High School was selected to be constructed completely of masonry for a number of reasons. Masonry offered the best solution as a type of building construction as it offers superior resistance to abuse, it is an integral structural system that is also the finished product, and for this project was the most cost effective solution for this particular building.	Architect: Perkins+Will 617 W. 7th Street, Suite 1200 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Robert Lavey, AIA Principal Structural Engineer: TMAD Taylor & Gaines General Contractor: Tilden-Coil Constructors, Inc. Masonry Contractor: Kretschmar & Smith, Inc. Block Producer: ORCO Block Company, Inc. Owner: Jurupa Unified School District