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EXPERIENCE WORKING WITH RSA

Jackson Galloway FGM Architects and Bob Galloway, AIA (our team’s proposed
Principal-in-Charge) first began serving Regents School of Austin in 1999, when
the school was meeting in rented facilities on Exposition Boulevard in Tarrytown.

The design challenge presented to us at that We believe this to be true of Regents scholarly
time was formidable: “Establish a campus- yet local persona and are tremendously
wide design aesthetic for the present and proud and grateful to have participated in this
future of Regents with a gymnasium as standard-setting architectural expression. In
an initial building; plus, we need to play our view, as each RSA building has adapted
basketball in the gym in six months.” In order and implemented this motif, the campus
to complete the gymnasium by the beginning has grown to embody a truly beautiful and
of basketball season, design and construction timeless testament to the values of classical
were accelerated by implementing a education.
“fast-track” process in which the steel
structure was quickly engineered and ordered At the time of the gym’s successful completion
before the final design for the rest of the (just barely in time for the first game of
building was complete. Using a combination basketball season), we also managed the
of concrete tilt-wall and steel building construction of the main parking lot, as well as
shell construction to form the enclosure, Knights Field. Our next project was the
considerable attention was then given to the two-story Logic Hall, completed in 2001.
design element that would bring unity to the
multi-facility campus. In ongoing efforts to support the school
through design and planning services over
A series of lyrical interlaced arches of Texas the subsequent years, we completed a weight
limestone were designed to wrap around room expansion, an athletic facilities master
the shell of the building and form covered plan (which included the west campus athletic
walkways on all pedestrian sides. The idea fields), and then preliminary design for an
was to create a place that is both “Learned” athletics field house, a number of studies for
(connected to the continuum of history) and potential performance halls, and early design
“Native” (of this place, namely Austin). for the Rhetoric Hall.

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