Barbara Chilton Middle School

Roseville City School District
Roseville, California

New Middle School

Re-use of Robert C. Cooley MS plans with modifications

Occupancy 2008

The Barbara Chilton Middle School is an approximately 80,000 square-foot middle school campus planned to serve 800 students. The campus was completed in 2008. The buildings are designed to echo the rail yard history of Roseville with metal roofs and corbelled overhangs. While most of the campus is constructed with wood framed buildings, concrete masonry and steel are utilized in the gymnasium / food service / multi-use complex that is the anchor of the campus site.

This structure houses a 10,000 square-foot gymnasium that is used jointly by the City of Roseville for weekend and after school community activities. Adjacent to this is a multi-purpose room with a large roof mounted skylight that serves primarily as the school’s indoor lunch area. A full service kitchen adjoins this part of the building. Locker rooms accessible from both the gymnasium and the exterior play-courts are on the opposite side of the sports hall. Finally adjacent the kitchen area there is a small performance / music room with a raised platform.

Why Masonry? Concrete masonry was used in this building for several reasons. First, it accommodated the building code requirements for the size and occupancy of the structure in the desired proximity to the balance of the campus. Durability of the material in this high use area is also a benefit along with the decorative possibilities it allowed in color and texture.