Garvey School District’s Marshall Early Education Center beautifully represents the rebirth of an aging facility on the brink of demolition – now breathing new life into surrounding families and communities in San Gabriel, California.

With early education programs needed to serve Garvey School District’s families a top priority, the District partnered with the Los Angeles County Office of Education to develop the Marshall Early Education Center, an 18,900 square foot facility located in the heart of San Gabriel.  The District site, once a shuttered 90-year-old elementary school, now serves 4 surrounding communities and has become a source of pride for the local area.

SGH Architects was honored to be a part of this historic facility’s transformation by providing innovative and strategic design solutions that supported the educational program needs, all while keeping the project’s budget below the renovation cost threshold for replacement.  This historic elementary school site (State Application Number 455 – approved in 1934) has been completely transformed into a state-of-the-art early education facility that will empower children and their families for many generations to come.

Riverside Preparatory Academy in Oro Grande, California, commissioned SGH Architects to design a permanent Locker Building and an Office Building for their high-desert campus that contains both the middle school and the high school. This project represents the first permanently constructed buildings on an all-modular building campus, and are designed to be an integral component in support of the physical education programs at Riverside Preparatory Academy.

As a result of its centralized location, as well as a unifying contextual curved roof gesture, building orientations, protective canopies, and exterior spaces for student and instructor interactions, the project provides a prideful & symbolic connection between the two campuses. The buildings are constructed of CMU, metal roof trusses, composite metal wall panels and the Locker Building incorporates clerestory glazing under a large canopy to allow natural lighting into the spaces throughout the day.

The Locker Building serves both the middle school and high school students and has both a dedicated weight room with a large operable door to allow weight training to occur outside, as well as a dedicated dance studio. The Office Building provides support facilities and space for trainers, the nurse’s office and much needed laundry & gear storage for the programs.