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Middle School Arts Building

The Arts Building
The middle school arts building serves the choir, art, industrial art, and band program. The building was built in the 1980's to serve as a boarding house for scholarship students from the local community. As the school grew so did the demands of the arts program and it was decided last year to place all 4 programs in one facility.

To the far right is the choir room that can seat 25 students comfortably. In the center entrance is the fine arts room that can seat a maximum of 20 students. To the left of the front door are former bedrooms for the boarding students which are currently vacant. On the far left (off in the distance is the band room which seats over 45 students. Behind the former bedrooms is the Industrial Arts room. Right in the middle is the computer lab.

Computer Lab Dimensions
9 meters wide and 8 meters long (at widest and longest points) or 29.5 feet wide and 26.2 feet long. There is separate conduit for the electrical and ethernet all along the perimeter of the room. Currently there are 25 electrical outlets and data points but more can be added. Right now, there is a two foot equipment rack with one HP ProCurve Switch Model # 1400-24 G J9078A and a Gigacore Cat 6 Patch.

Individual Rooms
4 meters wide and 2.5 meters long or 13.1 feet wide and 8.2 feet long. Each room has a window When the dorm rooms were renovated the closets were removed so they are no obstacles. There are 3 electrical outlets in each room but no data points. The walls and ceiling are all made of cement. //-Because there are no data points in the individual rooms and the walls and ceiling are cement, maybe we use wireless for the individual rooms and use a wireless bridge to connect to the rest of the Ethernet network//.

//-Total square footage of the project is 772.9 + 322.26 = 1,095.16.//



Door leading to the former bedrooms



Door on the right leads to Industrial Arts







Here is a very 'quick' sketch of the building. Things are not to scale as much as I wanted. As you can see we could claim the former bedrooms as little 'Art' studios for recordings, practice and other artsy activities. include component="comments" page="2. Description of Computer Lab" limit="10"