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Camey Elementary plans unveiled, design includes collaboration area
By Chris Roark, croark@starlocalnews.com
The Lewisville ISD Board of Trustees got its first look at plans for the new Camey Elementary School on Monday.
The district's facilities assessment committee recommended last year that the district rebuild the school instead of improving the existing campus based on the structural problems it has and the cost for repairing it.
Representatives from PBK Architects discussed plans for the new building, which will be located just a few feet north of the existing school.
Irene Nigaglioni of PBK said the entrance has been shifted to address traffic concerns.
"Arbor Glen Road is a narrow road so sometimes it's hard for cars to pass through," Nigaglioni said. "Plus you have The Colony High School located just south of the campus, so you get traffic on Arbor Glen from there, too. By having Camey's entrance facing Blair Oaks, you move the traffic to the north [toward S. Colony Boulevard] and onto a wider road."
Once inside, students and teachers will experience a design that PBK, which help from a design committee, has brought to the district in some of its other projects, such as the ninth-grade campuses for Flower Mound and Marcus high schools.
Among those is a design that provides learning hubs. The classroom area would have moveable walls to create opportunities for collaboration and team teaching.
"That's something that we brought to them, but it fits in perfectly with the district's strategic design," Nigaglioni said.
The campus would have two stories with young students having classrooms on the bottom floor and older students going to class on the second floor.
Other features include a media center and a multipurpose play area.
The board will vote on the schematic design plan April 8. Nigaglioni said if approved, construction could begin in September and be complete by December of 2014. She said the campus could open in January of 2015. Nigaglioni said she didn't see a problem with students attending the new campus in the middle of the school year since the new building is located on the same site as the existing campus.
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