Brookside Charter School

Kansas City, Missouri 

ACI Boland was approached to
provide design services as the architect on a
Design-Build team for a new K-12 client. Working
underneath the design builder, ACI Boland used a wide
range of design engagement tools to leverage the
school’s internal expertise and external
partnerships to develop the project. Currently in
permitting as a 4,300 SF renovation of a leased
building on a underutilized higher education campus,
the STEAM project will provide the school an
opportunity to expand on a successful STEAM lab
incubator program currently in operation. Using the
breadth that STEAM curriculum offers, the school
leverages the program to expand their enrichment
offerings for exceptional students and to provide
hands on teaching and learning opportunities for their
entire student base.

As a stand-alone facility the project had to
accommodate the entire range of school security,
operation, staffing, and student movement sequences
in a very compact footprint. Offering a kitchen lab,
open engineering lab, and open flexible science and
art lab the intent is to allow the building to shift is
curricular identity throughout the educational day as
the age range shifts through the daily schedule. With
bright finishes, purposefully mobile furniture, and both
view and physical connections to the exterior
including a project patio, the intent is to allow the staff
to leverage higher levels of excitement and movement
than a traditional school facility may allow for.