MONTESSORI PAVILION

Phase: SD - CA

Location: Wadmalaw Island, SC

Function: Outdoor Classroom

Size: 5,000 sf

Collaboration: 14 students

“The mission of Edith L. Frierson Montessori School is to develop confident life-long learners who are competent, responsible, and self-motivated by providing a safe environment where parents and teachers support children as they explore an integrated, culturally diverse, and innovative curriculum that fosters critical thinking and creativity.”

The pavilion we designed and fabricated is intended to be used by the students and faculty for outdoor classroom activities. The pavilion has two sheltered spaces and a trellis to connect them. Our aim through the designed spaces was to give the freedom and support to the young students to be curious and make connections to the natural world and with their peers. The pavilion was built in 2 phases, with Phase 1 submitted per the 2018 IBC section 107.3. The drawings created for the CD Set were a collaboration in design by the Clemson Design/Build Studio under Professor David Pastre. The tool empowers the child to develop his or her world and to inhabit that world through play. In the Community Build Studio, we had the incredible power and responsibility to create this communal space for the school & community.