21 st Century School Design

1. 21st Century School Design Building and Designing Schools For Tomorrow’s CMCSS!

2. Current Issues in K-12 School Design • Increase in community centered schools • Perceived increase in school violence as well as increased security • High tech-multi-media environments • Energy efficiency • Sustainability • Instructional flexibility • Designs for a variety of learning: small group, individual, large group, hands-on, independent research

3. Increase in Community Centered Schools • School design that allows for better access restrictions to areas not needed for public use in the evenings • Determining how schools can be 24 hour facilities or multi-use facilities for community and education

4. High tech-multi-media environments • Classroom design that maximizes use of the kind of technology used at Barkers Mill through “outside the box” classroom layout and design • Interior design that makes use of technology building wide rather than just in the classroom

5. Energy Efficiency (Green School Design) • Use recycled building materials • Reduce greenhouse gas emissions • “Daylighting” the school design strategically • Better air quality through purposeful design • Superior acoustics and thermal comfort • Minimize energy demand • Minimize water usage • Use energy-efficient lighting, mechanical systems, and renewable energy sources

6. Energy Efficiency (Green School Design • Solar planning for site and design • Attention to lighting, mechanical systems, plumbing and water systems and electrical systems (a design that complements these new kinds of systems)

7. Sustainability “Schools are like cities where the city center is like the student center, homes like classrooms, streets like hallways, parks like common areas. Increasingly school cultures will become interdisciplinary, team planned and taught.” Herman Hertzberger

8. Instructional Flexibility • Buildings designed to accommodate: • Information technology • Teachers’ role change from instructor to mentor/facilitator • Schools less industrial to more personal • Classrooms with more flexible and fluid design

9. Issues Specific to Rossview Elementary • External wall space/footprint/lower profile for cost savings • Possible less masonry • Design incorporating pre-fabricated metal structures • More energy efficiency • Security (internal and external) • Opportunity for environment bid environment • Instructional issues around technology, classroom design that encourages today’s best teaching approaches • Instructional approaches in elementary schools have greatly changed in 20 years • Storage