New Construction K-5
Appomattox Elementary School
Appomattox County
VMDO Architects
Renovation / Addition K-5
Fairfield Elementary School consists of an
addition of 13 classrooms. The additions were done in a concept of
neighborhoods for K-1, 2-3 and 4-5 grades. Each neighborhood has
support areas including toilets, storage, individual instruction and
workrooms. The Administration area has been renovated for more
efficiency while the library has been renovated and expanded. A new
computer lab adjoins the library. The gymnasium was doubled in size
(high school size court) and provides seating for 150 and storage area.
Perhaps one of the more interesting aspects of the project is the
use of geothermal for the mechanical systems.
This system utilizes the natural thermo-dynamics to produce the
heating and cooling, thus reducing life cycle cost. All roofs are
sloped metal with the HVAC units in the protected attic area. An
extensive exterior classroom for environmental studies was included.
New Construction 6-12
Envisioned by the Planning Committee is a future
that includes integration of not only career and technical programs,
but also unusual integration such as art education into the core
curriculum. This new high school also has an excellent balance of
cyberspaces and social learning spaces. It responds to the evolving
needs of the students and community by providing current advances in
educational technology and addressing the changes in local
business/economic trends. The “path of travel” between the classrooms
and other building areas is set up as a “main street” with a spacious
hall that hosts main academic and public community functions, an active
showcase for learning and discovery, improving the visibility of
‘living learning’ by bringing it out into the open for the learning
community to view, participate and share.
Renovation / Addition 6-12
Carter G. Woodson Middle School
Hopewell
Moseley Architects
Carter G. Woodson has served Hopewell students
as a high school, an elementary school and now as a middle school since
the 1950's. Its effectiveness as a middle school is enhanced by
converting the 1950's campus style middle school into a "connected"
plan, by "infilling" between the existing campus buildings, thus
enclosing the entire facility under one roof. To create a single
structure plan, and achieve the goal of removing all mobile classrooms,
this project included renovating 12,424 SF and adding 41,000 SF. The
new addition, which includes the administration and guidance area,
media center, enlarged dining room, art room, a chorus room, three
science labs, and several new classrooms and resource rooms, connected
the five existing structures on the "campus" and create two interior
courtyards. The new Central Administration area created a dramatic
front entrance to the facility.