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Site Plan
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Floor Plan - corridor flooring colors change to assist in building wayfinding
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Axon Diagram
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Play Area Diagrams
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New Front Entry to the South
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Instead of two schools located across town, the new school offers state of the art resources for PK-6th grade - efficiently located adjacent to the existing Junior/Senior School.
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The former school lacked a sense of arrival. The new Lobby serves as a central circulation space, and can also be used after-hours along with the Gym.
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Gym Before - retrofitted into a new perfectly sized Media Center. Existing framing was utilized to support new skylights.
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Library & Media Center After - in the former Gym space.
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Library Before - this space was divided in half in order to create a new Music room, and a new Commons Area.
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Commons Area After - soft flooring and a stepped platform were introduced to this space - encouraging performances, presentations, and flexible use.
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New Kindergarten Classroom - located in the addition. Classrooms are outfitted with new operable, high-efficiency windows, shading systems, casework, finishes and instructional technology.
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New Gym - view from new Stage / Music Room.
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Cafeteria Before - This space was sized appropriately for the expanded student body with minor renovations and improved access to the Kitchen.
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Cafeteria After
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Detail of New Southern facade - with Pre-K and Kindergarten windows and reading bump-outs
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@2018 Peter Vanderwarker
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@2018 Peter Vanderwarker
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@2018 Peter Vanderwarker
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New East Meadow School Entry. @2018 Peter Vanderwarker
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New East Meadow School Kindergarten Classroom. @2018 Peter Vanderwarker
East Meadow School is a Pre-K to Sixth Grade Elementary School designed as a modest addition/renovation project to a well-built, but nondescript school from 1965. Situated on a flat site adjacent to the Granby Junior/Senior High School, the addition offers a new public face and entry for building, new classroom spaces, a new gym, and a new administration wing. The addition allows for the unification of Granby’s two elementary schools in one building, saving on administration costs, maintenance costs and improving district collaboration.
The addition to the south subtly departs from the original structure by maintaining its overall rectilinear geometry while offering nuance with a sloped gym roof, varied massing at the entry, bumped-out reading windows in Pre-K and Kindergarten classrooms, and rhythmic fenestration.
Classrooms are open and light – with an exposed structural system, acoustic metal deck, and skylights that distribute daylight throughout. Renovated spaces include: a new skylight filled library in what was once an old gym; new informal break-out spaces in what was once a tightly packed and disorienting sardine can; and a new music room and community space in the wonderfully daylight former library.
East Meadow School
Category
Early Childhood School/Elementary School
Description
Project Location:
Granby, MA
Architecture Firm
Jones Whitsett Architects
Greenfield, MA
www.joneswhitsett.com
https://www.instagram.com/joneswhitsettarchitects/
Photography By:
@2018 Peter Vanderwarker
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