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Fowler Drive Elementary School Athens, GA
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Honorable Melissa Cantrell Mention 678/784-3481
2011 DESIGN TEAM RW Allen & Associates, Construction Manager at Risk Southview, Landscape Architect OWNER/CLIENT Clarke County School District Athens, GA Philip D. Lanoue, Ph.D. 706/546-7721 KEY STATS Grades Served: K-5 Capacity: 575 students Size of Site: 15.3 acres Building Area: 67,755 sq. ft. Building Volume: 726,512 cu. ft. Space per Student: 118 sq. ft. Cost per Student: $13,268 Square Foot Cost: $113 Construction Cost: $7.6 million Contract Date: Feb. 2009 Completed: Jan. 2011 Photography: CDH Partners
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owler Drive Elementary School serves as a canvas for the extension of learning from the classroom to the built environment. Each classroom wing integrates a commons area to provide an emphasis on learning with small breakout groups. Large windows allow for natural daylighting and views to the exterior courtyards, in which a rainwater harvesting system and series of rain gardens and collection
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pools define the landscape. The interior corridors are transformed into a series of embedded murals within the floor patterns, each with a different vignette. The main street corridor showcases a theme of “A Walk Through Georgia,� in which the children are educated about the major cities within the state and the connectivity of each independently and to each other. From the ports of the Georgia coast to the streets
of Athens and Atlanta, the children are given the opportunity to explore the state in their own home. The classroom wings offer different views of our world, beginning with sea turtles and dolphins of the Atlantic Ocean to the animals from around the globe, each centered about the solar system. The students that come through Fowler Elementary are offered a unique perspective in learning. n