Legacy Peak Elementary is a project-based learning school in Colorado Springs that is the first project of an 80-acre master planned school site for the Academy School District 20. The school is largely focused on STEM studies, and the site elements reflect this goal through programming, colors, and materials.

The 16-acre site includes traditional elements such as separate car and bus lots, a multi-use synthetic turf field, an outdoor classroom, an outdoor dining plaza, a preschool play area, and separate play areas for grades K-2 and 3-5 that are entirely poured-in-place surfacing, making them accessible and inclusive to all. The site also includes a plaza for the NASA Challenger Learning Center, which pulls strips of planting into the hardscape and uses blue glass aggregate in the concrete, creating a light blue shimmering ground surface, exposing materials for students to observe and learn.

Our design team worked with Anova site furnishings to create a custom gabion bench with a wood slat seat, again exposing materials and construction methods for students to use and learn.

To learn more about the architecture services Hord Coplan Macht provided for this project, click here.