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Healthcare education center showing students working on mock patients in hospital beds
North Forsyth High School Renovation

Transformative Design Elevates Healthcare Teaching and Learning

Client

Winston-Salem / Forsyth County Schools

Project Location

Winston-Salem, NC

Area

98,000 SF

Students

900

North Forsyth High School needed a modern and comprehensive renovation to support enhanced learning opportunities for its students. Our transformative design revamps a 1960s comprehensive high school into a vibrant, next generation facility and incorporates a new hub for healthcare education. The facility is one of the county’s two state certified testing centers for the certified nursing assistant program.

Healthcare education center showing tables with chairs surrounded by classrooms staged as hospital rooms
Healthcare education center showing tables with chairs surrounded by classrooms staged as hospital rooms

Lecture/Lab

Healthcare education center showing students on modern furniture surrounded by classrooms staged as hospital rooms

Collaboration/Skills Demonstration

Healthcare education center showing students on modern furniture surrounded by classrooms staged as hospital rooms

Collaboration/Skill Development

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Reorganizing the building streamlines student circulation and flow between each learning area. The expanded media center at the heart of the school includes a makerspace that fosters creativity and critical thinking. Collaboration and connectivity can be observed through the learning stair that connects the second floor to the outdoor learning spaces and dining areas. Expanding the dining area promotes social interaction and allows each student more personal space, while the new welcome center invites students into the renovated healthcare hub.

School hallway grey floors, white walls with red trim, wooden doors, and a wooden glass display case in the wall
School hallway grey floors, white walls with red trim, wooden doors, and a wooden glass display case in the wall

Media Center Before

High school study area with modern furniture filled with students interacting and working on computers

Media Center After

Exterior of a high school with brick walls, white doors, and a colorful mural

Dining Expansion Before

Open concept collaboration area with blue and natural wood floors, blue high-back seating areas, and large glass windows

Dining Expansion After

Outdoor courtyard filled with large trees and benches surrounding a concrete area

Courtyard Before

Outdoor courtyard in from of a two story building with large stairs leading up to the second story providing seating areas for students

Courtyard After

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North Forsyth High School is 98,000 SF and can accommodate 900 students. Rotating existing classrooms and labs in the old double-loaded corridor enables healthcare program spaces and authentic learning activities. The renovation also adds EMT learning spaces and animal science classrooms to the school. Renovations to the building occurred over two occupied school years and through various phases.

High school hallway with natural wood floors looking into open concept classrooms filled with students at tables with moveable glass walls
High school hallway with natural wood floors looking into open concept classrooms filled with students at tables with moveable glass walls

Biology Lab

EMT classroom with natural wood floors filled with students at tables surrounding a student working on a patient on a gurney

EMT

Students surrounding a table with a blue background with a skeleton image on the table with words Anatomage on the side

Anatomage

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