High-Profile Focus: Educational Facilities
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September 2020
C.E. Floyd Completes School Upgrade
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PRECONSTRUCTION GENERAL CONTRACTING CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT DESIGN/BUILD Riverbend schoolhouse with the gymnasium in the background / photo by Greg Premru
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Natick, MA – C.E. Floyd recently completed a new classroom building and gymnasium for Riverbend School in Natick. The two-story wood-framed schoolhouse contains three lower elementary classrooms, design and art studios, and a director’s office. It also provides miscellaneous spaces that are adaptable for multiple purposes. The gymnasium is a stand-alone, prefabricated metal building. It houses a full-size gym, coach’s office, bathrooms, and mechanical spaces. The prefabricated structure required extensive coordination for multiple details, such as designing the foundation to accept the structure and determining the most efficient method to tie the siding into the prefabricated exterior panels. It also required determining what
can and cannot be modified on the panels. These new buildings feature many modern amenities, but it was critical to maintain the look and feel of the John Eliot historic district. Piatt Associates Architecture incorporated features in its design to seamlessly blend in the new buildings with the existing campus and neighborhood. The schoolhouse exterior was designed to resemble a barn with clapboard and batten siding, a metal standing seam roof, and cupola. The gym building is visually distinct, yet ties in with the schoolhouse by sharing features such as clapboard and batten siding and a metal standing seam roof. Construction also included a 26,000sf natural turf soccer field, parking, and drop-off area with a landscaped courtyard between the schoolhouse and gym.
Initiative Supports Outdoor Classrooms Portland, ME – The Boston Society of Landscape Architects reports that over the past month, 15 design teams – architects and landscape architects – have worked with the Portland Society for Architecture to analyze school campuses and design outdoor classrooms for the Portland Public Schools District. Portland Public Schools is committed to assembling at least two outdoor classrooms per each elementary, middle, and high school. Many other districts in
Maine have adopted similar strategies, with the assistance of additional designer volunteers. This initiative is based on the national Green Schoolyards program out of Oakland, Calif. The local effort is spearheaded by Laura Newman and includes many community partners, such as AIA Maine, BSLA and the BSLA’s Maine section. For more information and to volunteer, email Addy Smith Reiman at addy@ portlandarchitects.org.