Green Dot Animo Leadership High School

Green Dot Animo Leadership High School
Inglewood, CA
Green Dot Public Schools is leading the charge to transform public education in Los
Angeles and beyond so that all children receive the education they need to be successful in college, leadership, and life. Green Dot envisions a public school system in L.A.
made up of small, excellent schools that encourage and welcome parental involvement
and opinions, support teacher creativity, and educate students at their highest and
best levels-no matter what their background.
Green Dot has built great high schools in Los Angeles to prove that urban high schools
can be successful with the right model. In addition, Green Dot is working with LAUSD,
the Mayor of Los Angeles and other political leaders, the State of California, the government, the general public, teachers’ unions and other groups to influence the reforms required to improve the quality of urban schools in Los Angeles, and ultimately
throughout the state and the nation.
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Inglewood is the largest predominantly African-American city in California, with a population over 100,000. The history of the this area is a rich one, characterized by African
-American homeowners, tight-knit families and front porch culture. The area is famous
for its contributions to the civil rights movement and was a central trouble spot during
the 1964 Watts Riots. Fair Housing and school busing has plagued the city since the
early 60’s. The median family income is less than $35,000/year and 25% of the population lives below the poverty level.
The new school facility is located adjacent to the 105 freeway and is almost directly
under the flight path to LAX. The neighborhood consists of a mix of residential, industrial and institutional uses. It is considered one of the poorer neighborhoods in the Los
Angeles area.
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History of Green Dot
Green Dot Public Schools was founded in 1999 by Steve Barr in direct response to the
terrible state of public high schools in the Los Angeles area. LAUSD’s high schools were
failing to graduate more than 50% of their students, and those that were making it
through were rarely prepared for college. The vast majority of the students falling out
of the system were children from low-income families. Mr. Barr started Green Dot with a
vision of leveraging charter schools as a tool in order to show the school district and the
public at large that there was a more effective way to provide public education to young
adults in the Los Angeles area. He felt that opening small, successful charter schools
in which low income, high-risk youth were succeeding would not only provide a quality
education to the students those schools served, but would also influence LAUSD and
other school districts in the Los Angeles area to adopt the successful small-schools
model for all of their schools.
The Animo Leadership School
On August 21, 2000, Animo Leadership became the first Green Dot school to open its
doors to a group of 140 pioneering students from the Lennox School District. This school
started with one principal, a counselor, and five first-year teachers housed in a temporary school facility: leased law school classrooms at the University of West Los Angeles Law. Animo Leadership’s success grew rapidly; it has grown to a full-sized school
with an enrollment of 520 students. Its first graduating class was extremely successful,
graduating 96% of its original 140 students, and sending 62% of its students to a fouryear university. Animo Leadership has continued to achieve high levels of success; the
school was ranked by US News and World Report as the #31 high school in the nation,
also as the #4 charter high school in the nation. This project will be the first non remodel, newly constructed school for the Green Dot organization.
The New Facility
Working within an extremely tight budget and construction schedule, the new 520-student 52,000 square foot high school will set the standard for high schools in Southern
California. With 650 solar panels built into the main (south) facade, the Animo Leadership High School will be the first public school in the country to provide 100% of its own
energy needs.
The Animo Leadership High School distinguishes itself from most conventionally developed projects, in that it incorporates energy-efficient measures that exceed standard
practice, optimize building performance, and ensure reduced energy use during all
phases of construction and occupancy. The planning and design of The Animo Leadership High School emerged from close consideration and employment of passive solar
design strategies. These strategies include: locating and orienting the building to control solar cooling loads; shaping and orienting the building for exposure to prevailing
winds; shaping the building to induce buoyancy for natural ventilation; designing windows to maximize daylighting; shading south-facing windows and minimizing west-facing glazing; designing windows to maximize natural ventilation; shaping and planning
the interior to enhance daylight and natural air flow distribution.
Building Management System ensures
optimum performance of all systems.
Solar Hot Water
Automatic sensors and intellegent
thermostats with automatic shutoff
reduces energy consumption
Solar Collection
Building configuration encourages
use of stairs and de-emphasizes
elevator usage
Thermal Modulation on South Facade regulates heating,
cooling and daylight
Building configuration enduces
air flow and natural ventilation
Narrow floor plate increases natural
daylight and cross ventilation -reduces
cooling loads and energy usage.
Vertical louvers
facing west
Major glazing
to the north
Horizontal louvers
facing east
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200 Solar
panels on
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650 Solar
panels
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facade
Induced airflow
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Induced airflow
through building
The Solar Wall
The 650 Solar panels built into the south facade will produce nearly 100% of the
building’s energy, and will reduce carbon-dioxide emmisisons by more than 3 million
pounds.
The heat-stacking effect induced by the placement of the panels will also provide enhanced natural ventilation and cooling of the building.
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Animo Leadership High School
Project Details
Project’s Formal Name:
Location of Project:
Client/Owner:
Total Square Footage:
Completed:
Cost:
GreenDot Animo Leadership High School
Los Angeles County, CA – Lennox School District
GreenDot Public Schools
53,000 sq. ft.
2012
$14,300,000.00(US)
Architects:
Location of Architect:
BROOKS + SCARPA (formerly Pugh + Scarpa)
4611 W. Slauson Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90043
Project Team:
Lawrence Scarpa, FAIA - Principal- in-Charge.
Peter Borrego, Angela Brooks, AIA, Mark
Buckland, Project Architect, Brad Buter, Silke
Clemens, Emily Hodgdon, Ching Luk, Gwynne
Pugh, Sru Sumantri - Project Design Team.
Thorton Thomassetti-Structural, E2DIMechanical Electrical and Plumbing,
Veneklaussen-Acoustical, Barbara Hall-Civil
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Brooks Scarpa
Engineering:
General Contractor:
Photography:
Brooks Scarpa 4611 W. Slauson Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90043 tel. 310-828-0226 www.brooksscarpa.com