Adjacent to the San Francisco Bay, Design Tech High School (d.tech) is a ribbon-like building that runs along the edge of Oracle’s Silicon Valley campus—tying the natural shoreline, school, and tech campus together. Capturing the region’s entrepreneurial spirit, d.tech provides a platform for students to learn, experiment, and create. With a warehouse-like aesthetic, the interior acts as a blank canvas and tool shed for students and teachers to utilize in a myriad of ways. Break-out spaces are dispersed throughout the plan in a variety of types and scales, creating the connective spine of the building. At the heart of the school is a two-floor makerspace that provides flexible workshops for hands-on learning.