Proposed for Cleveland Ohio’s new Campus International School (CIS), this unique world of learning emerges from below street level, clad in triple-pane glass and solar panels. With an open classroom plan situated on the continuous spiral of wedge shaped platforms, traditional floor planes are eliminated, an outside-the-box experience to inspire learning and participation at all ages. Each platform elevates one step around a central atrium, This ADA compliant spiral commences at street level, from which the Elementary School winds down 18ft (5.5m) to the Physical Education platform, and up 42ft (12.8m) from street level for the Middle and High Schools. With an inviting arc of exterior steps, the CIS relates to the Cleveland State University Payne Avenue campus and to the Cleveland community via a bridge to the 18th Street arrival area.
The southwest elevation, with its integrated photovoltaics, emerges from a surface below street level
Architects: ShortList_O Design Group
Project: A New School Vision
Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Design Proposal: ShortList_0 Design Group LLC
Project Name: Campus International School – A New School Vision
Designer: Bill Caplan, 2011
Site Area: approximately 5.5 acres (22,000sm)
Building Footprint: 53,000sf (4,900sm)
Program: School with Grades Kindergarten through 12
Sustainable Design Technologies: Building Integrated PV and Solar Thermal panels
Article source: Jonathan Barnes Architecture and Design
This project involved the addition to a 1960’s era international Style house, an anomaly in this typical suburban Columbus neighborhood. The existing house, a long white box that sits atop a steep, heavily wooded slope, consists of a first floor and a walk-out basement. The addition includes two kid’s bedrooms and two baths on the first level and an entertainment room on the lower level.
Article source: Jonathan Barnes Architecture and Design
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