
	Coronado High School

SOLEIL WEST: Architecture / Planning / Interior Design

Coronado

High School

COMPLETED PROJECTS: ARCHITECTURE | PLANNING | INTERIOR DESIGN

Coronado High School

Coronado High School is in the small town of Gallina, New Mexico. Gallina is nestled in the Jemez Mountains right between the Santa Fe National Forest and the Chama River Wilderness. The new Coronado High School was designed in the early winter of 1998, and went into construction in the summer of that year. In the fall of 1999, the building was completed. It partially stands between two older buildings, a gymnasium and an industrial arts building. The new high school brings together these two buildings as well as a new classroom wing set to the north of the two buildings.
	Exterior Entrance
The new Coronado High School brings many of the activities to a central area on the campus, a huge improvement due to the fact that Gallina has very cold winters, and before the students were having to regularly go outside. This new facility replaces an aging high school set on the same campus. The old high school was demolished in the summer of 2000.

Entrance to lecture hall

The lecture hall holds one hundred six people and is used for presentations and assemblies. Next to the lecture hall is the library, and on the other side there are classrooms.

Entrance to multi-purpose room

The multi-purpose room is primarily used for school meals, but it was also designed to facilitate other large group activities. To the left is the existing industrial arts building. To the right of the industrial arts building is the new greenhouse which connects to one of the new science classrooms.