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Middle School Site Plan - Pre-Construction
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Middle School Site Plan - New
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First Floor Plan - New
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Second Floor Plan - New
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Third Floor Plan - New
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As visitors enter the space, they have access to the main office, cafetorium and library, which double as community use areas.
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Secondary parent drop-off location, as well as event entry for athletics and music.
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A culinary component connects the outdoor growing beds, FACS, and the Cafeteria with a focus on healthy eating choices.
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Specialty spaces are connected with garage doors and writable surfaces, with a learning stair at the focal point of the Library, Applied Technology, STEM, Art, and grade level entries.
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The STEM Lab, as well as other spaces around the perimeter, include multiple windows allowing the use of natural light as a light source.
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The Cafeteria and Library open onto a south facing, sun screened patio available during lunch or to read a book outdoors under a tree.
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Each grade level is planned as a community with general classrooms, a flexible science room, student support spaces, and a teacher planning room grouped around a “living room” space.
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Grade level wings wrap a 3-sided science courtyard, with direct access from science labs.
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A cafetorium includes a stage with theatrical rigging and lighting, as well as ample storage for both lunch tables and chairs for performance seating.
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Elevated stage opening on one side of the cafeteria, and the other side to the main entry lobby with a pair of wood barn doors.
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Wood benches paired with display cases and a tall wood-slat back panel house the new pillars, and are featured right outside the athletic wing.
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Images © Craig Dugan Photography - 2019
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Images © Craig Dugan Photography - 2019
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Images © Craig Dugan Photography - 2019
A district-wide Master Facility Plan explored multiple options at each of the schools in the Northbrook/Glenview community. Wide spread community engagement identified a modern replacement school as the most appropriate solution to address the physical and educational support challenges of the existing, outdated, and deteriorating middle school. Following a high level of engagement, the community overwhelmingly supported a replacement school referendum with a nearly 76% positive vote.
Clear circulation informs an understanding of public-to-private space needs, and a shifting separation of noisy and quiet zones that may vary throughout the day. Organized along a string of highly flexible spaces, the new middle school is an amplifier of learning with a focus on the idea that the individual learner thrives in a variety of flexible settings. Design drivers identified through the master planning process are on display throughout the new building and site. These design drivers include: Invitation/Curiosity, Exploration/Expedition, Transparency/Celebratory Learning Spaces, and Playfulness.
A small district office building is displaced by the construction of the new middle school. The design of the new building accommodates a replacement district office on its second floor, easily accessed through the main entry of the building and building reception area.
Maple School
Category
Middle School
Description
Project Location: Northbrook, IL
Construction Type: New Construction/Addition
Facility Type: Entire school/campus building
Owner: Northbrook/Glenview School District 30
Population Served: 6-8
Capacity: 500
Site Size: 10
Gross Area of Project: 114275
Space per student: 195
Gross Square Foot Cost: 332
Cost per student/occupant: 75789
Total project cost: 37894600
Date of Completion: 9/3/2019
Sustainable rating achieved: N/A
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