Chamblee High School
Chamblee, Georgia
Dekalb County’s second oldest high school moved into this new state of the art 250,000 square foot facility in 2014. Chamblee Charter High School is a magnet school drawing talented students from throughout the county. The design team accomplished the significant challenge of phasing the project in such a manner that allowed the existing school to continue operation while replacing all of the facilities. Preserving large specimen trees along the frontage of Chamblee-Dunwoody Road was a crucial goal for this project. A collaborative effort between the design team and City of Chamblee helped keep this pedestrian friendly school operating safely during the three-year construction period. The completed school provides a beautiful transition from the industrial feel of Peachtree Industrial Boulevard to the residential character of the adjacent neighborhoods. A key component in gracefully making this transition was concentrating the paved parking lots south of the building and placing the athletic fields and green space on the northwestern portion of the site adjacent to the surrounding neighborhood.