The Martin Luther King Jr. Academy Nevada Campus is a fresh start for the student body and school staff, connecting the previously separate elementary and middle school campuses and aiming to enhance learning and foster community. The project expanded and improved the existing elementary school campus in Sausalito to accommodate the middle school students from the Marin City campus, offering outdoor classrooms, flexible learning environments, play environments and a lab for science, technology, engineering, arts and math. 

Miyamoto provided the structural designs for a new 4,413-SF administration building, two new classroom buildings that were respectively 6,928-SF and 6,408- SF, and a new 7,903-SF classroom/library building. The project scope also included the modernization of the existing two-story multi-purpose building and the existing K-pod building. The campus structural systems utilize wood-framed shear walls, I-joist roof framing, shallow footings and steel columns. The designs of both the administration and library buildings included 21-foot-tall single-story walls, presenting one of several challenges to our engineers, including significant wall openings and limited shear wall lengths.