BASIS San Antonio's Shavano Campus is a 65,000 SF charter school teaching 1,100 kids from grades 6 -12. The building sits atop a hill overlooking the beautiful San Antonio scenery. The placement of the building on the site was sensitive to the surrounding landscape and made sure to salvage as many trees as possible through construction. The school uses natural daylight and high-performance classrooms as a concept to enhance student learning. Also, the building was designed to have an ultra-efficient HVAC system to keep cooling costs low and to be more sustainable. The exterior design of the school plays to the BASIS language, while introducing site specific elements for its context. Go Dragons!