UNICEF Child Friendly School Design : Learning Along Borders 4 Living Across Boundaries
The school campus is divided into two areas: the public, community space, and the enclosed, learning space. We have created a formal entry to the school campus that will give a sense of place to the school. It is also flanked by administration offices on both sides which will present a higher level of security. Facing the street is an array of spaces, including a library, auditorium, and radio station, creating a barrier to the school proper. The classrooms are located at the rear in a courtyard arrangement that creates a central common space which could also function as an informal 'outdoor' classroom. Rainwater retention tanks at the far corners of the courtyard extend the duration of water availability to the facility. We have incorporated the most advanced dry latrine technology to bring more modern facilities to the school. The modular design of the buildings allows for ease of construction, and proposed materials are all locally available.
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Charter School for Educational Excellence (CSEE) – Yonkers, New York
This new Charter School started just 5 years ago converting an existing supermarket close to the center of Yonkers, NY into an Elementary School. The school has been very successful, creating demand from the community to expand into a Middle School. Based on an extremely tight schedule of 9 months for both design and construction, PFA has implemented off-site construction to run design, permitting, pre-construction and site construction on parallel tracks, cutting the project time in half compared to a standard design-bid-build approach, using Building Information Modeling to eliminate the time intensive shop drawing coordination phase. The school building and site layout was designed with great care to achieve an "as of right" project avoiding time-delaying variances. The new building features a full Middle School sized gym, media center, special ed., art & science classrooms serving the entire school.
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South Bronx Charter School for International Studies and Arts (SBCSICA) – Bronx, New York
Full Architectural Services for a new 5 story K-5 school in a very busy area of the Bronx, requiring laminated sound attenuating glazing.
Partners For Architecture helped the client to decide against the re-use of an existing 2-story brick building which had little substance and restricted the use of the property in many ways. The building features a full-size kitchen and a large multi-purpose hall for everyday lunch, physical education and school events. This low budget project required a variance for bulk and building height. Partners For Architecture was instrumentally involved in the difficult approval process and helped the client make decisions by updating the project’s budget on an ongoing basis. This building was designed with emphasis on energy efficiency and our specific concern about scale (midrise building in a dense urban environment vs. young children).
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Rogers ES Media Center
Made possible by a grant organized by the School PTA, this Magnet school was able to afford a completely redesigned and reconfigured Media Center.
Besides ample book-and media storage this media center now features a new entrance, custom display cases for school project exhibitions, a readers cove, a story telling area with stepped seating, an integrated circulation desk, a custom designed aquarium, additional class rooms and a computer lab, which is mostly used for teaching languages and seats 24 students. Partners For Architecture succeded to stay within the original grant budget, despite the many custom features integrated into this design.
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