The vision was to develop a school that is a community that embraces the students. It needs to be place where everyone feels safely embraced by the staff and the sense of place and where individuality is encouraged, the progressive nature of education is apparent and celebrated, and the knowledge that we are supporting each other is prevalent in the development of the spaces.
The concept is as efficient as possible on a narrow and long site. It is impossible to create a compact plan due to the scale of the needs versus the proportions of the site. Contextually, the building scale must relate at the face to the residential scale of the community. The plan has been oriented so that the control for the school and the site must be directed off the main street.
Volumetrically, the building is comprised of four (4) distinct parts; the administration suite, the public gathering area, the education suite and the amenity framework. Each element is formally distinct, but they combine to assure interdependence and appropriateness of form and material in the totality of the vision
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