The Little Theater at Sacred Heart: Developing Creative Spaces for K-12 Education
Photo from Sacred Heart Schools website
Intro
Sacred Heart is a private K-12 preparatory school in San Francisco focused on developing resilient and resourceful global citizens.
Looking to amplify their growing arts and music programming, Sacred Heart leadership wanted to engage stakeholders to discuss the school’s strategic vision and the future renovation of the little theater; a 4,000 square foot multi-purpose space used for physical education classes, performances, and after school activities.
Photo from Sacred Heart Schools website
Discovery
Visioning Session
Working together with faculty stakeholders, we explored the full range of needs and motivations for Sacred Heart’s next renovation to identify project and program drivers.
Workshop Insights
Spatial Needs
Student Needs
Ideation
As faculty shared their aspirations for future Sacred Heart students, several themes emerged that helped define a mission for the new and improved Little Theater. Building upon these themes, we created 4 different concepts of potential use cases, layout options, and recommended programming for the space.
Concepts
Testing
Programming & Validation Workshop
We presented each of the 4 concepts to faculty. We then worked together in teams to build consensus and evaluate each scenario using a balanced scorecard method, which provided a unique point of view on programs, use cases, and strategic objectives.
habit habitat
wonder workshop
little black box
band bazaar
Compiled Scorecard Activity Results
Final Proposal
Recommendation for Design Team
Our proposed concept was included in a final report sent back to the client and shared with our design team, including all research, feedback, insights, and detailed spatial recommendations.
