Incline Village High School Improvements

Incline Village, NV
12,118 sq ft (Expansion), 115,798 sq ft (Total)
Design and Construction Administration Services

Collaborative Design Studio was hired to perform a scope and feasibility study on Incline High School at Lake Tahoe by the Washoe County School District and the Dave and Cheryl Duffield foundation for improvements to the existing high school building and football stadium.  As a result of that study and a generous donation by the foundation, design of a new football and soccer stadium complete with home and away team rooms, concessions stands, and a 2 story athletic weight room and field house facility was begun alongside a 3 story expansion of the existing brick and concrete school.  The expansion and interior remodel includes security upgrades throughout for student wellbeing, a new single point entry and admin area, remodeled classrooms, state of the art culinary arts studio and commercial training kitchen, dance studio, ROTC classrooms and practice range, and a modern student hub with beautiful mountain forest views.  CDS met with numerous stakeholders and the school to determine how best to serve the students and community throughout the process.

Slated to be completed Fall 2024, the addition looks to emulate the existing, classic brick façade of the school with modern patterns and sweeping concrete gestures in the form of exterior balconies and walkways.  The interior expresses the school’s spectacular mountain setting by brining the natural woods and tones of the forest inside the learning and gathering spaces of the new student hub alongside sweeping expanses of glass and natural daylighting for student health and wellbeing.  Light shelf and sun shading techniques are employed around the full facade to emphasize the use of natural light.  The expansion visually and physically connects to the new stadium, designed with modern artificial turf to full high school size standards.  The field structures and bleachers are scattered around the edge of the field to preserve views and trees, capped off by the athletic weight facility on the 2nd level of the field house built into the hillside with large curtain wall windows opening onto the new stadium.