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Mountain Island Charter School
Shook Kelley performed the duties of Master Planning, Schematic Design & Construction Documentation Development of a new proposed building program for Mountain Island Charter school grades K-12.
The site selection involved the design of +/-40 acres of a +/-300 acre peninsula on Mountain Island Lake in Mounty Holly, NC.
Shook Kelley has a reputation for successfully handling difficult and challenging projects in a timely and cost effective manner. Our facility projects have been well received not only for their functional, economical and creative solutions to the needs of the school system, students, faculty and the communities they serve, but also through the participatory processes we undertake with the community to successfully integrate the knowledge of the end user into the design.
Based on development of the functional and relationship program targeted from the participatory programming and design charrette process led by Shook Kelley, which consisted of parents, faculty, students and facilities committee members, the site and building solution incorporates solar orientation and exterior community spaces to develop a series of outdoor public rooms for the campus connected by a linear pedestrian street which follows the natural topography and former logging road overlooking a natural wooded area and perennial stream. The campus was developed incorporating a Green Philosophy so that all areas are learning places, interior or exterior, programmed or informal. A large portion of the site is split by an east-west running valley and stream-bed that will remain a natural area and location of wild flower fields, student gardens & experimentation zones.
The campus has classroom buildings for its Upper School (6-12) and its Lower School (K-5) as well as a Community Building housing Gymnasiums and Fitness and Wellness facilities. A Commons Building was designed to accommodate Administration, Dining and the Media Center. Last, but not least, an Arts and Science Complex completes the campus. The campus has multiple playgrounds for the younger students as well as football, track, soccer, baseball and softball fields. Schematic Designs were done on each of the planned buildings and Shook Kelley worked with the school to determine what the first phase of construction would be, that being the Community Center along with the use of temporary modular classroom buildings until construction was complete.
All areas are learning places, interior or exterior, programmed or informal.
Materials and systems were selected according to Green Principles to allow Mountain Island Charter School to make the most minimal impact on the site and daily consumption of the facility as possible, and also as a visual and physical teaching tool for the students and community. A variety of building structural systems are incorporated due to the campus-like nature of the individual buildings, including structural masonry, steel frame and wood frame. A common language of sustainable, natural materials were used for the buildings that reflect both the rural location of the campus' natural environment and also the forward looking 'urbanism' of the plan's street, square and pedestrian sequences. The engineering systems also follow Green Principles and allow for flexibility of natural ventilation via building design and orientation. Rain barrels, rain gardens and additional low-tech systems are incorporated as both teaching and best-practice tools.
The functional building program is delineated as a campus of individual buildings with closed and open public/communal spaces for a great variety of interactive learning experiences for students. Indoor and outdoor 'rooms' allow for daily and long-term flexibility for the student, faculty, parent and community and promote interaction with a broad range of variation and opportunity for investigating real world connections.
The site selection involved the design of +/-40 acres of a +/-300 acre peninsula on Mountain Island Lake in Mounty Holly, NC.
Shook Kelley has a reputation for successfully handling difficult and challenging projects in a timely and cost effective manner. Our facility projects have been well received not only for their functional, economical and creative solutions to the needs of the school system, students, faculty and the communities they serve, but also through the participatory processes we undertake with the community to successfully integrate the knowledge of the end user into the design.
Based on development of the functional and relationship program targeted from the participatory programming and design charrette process led by Shook Kelley, which consisted of parents, faculty, students and facilities committee members, the site and building solution incorporates solar orientation and exterior community spaces to develop a series of outdoor public rooms for the campus connected by a linear pedestrian street which follows the natural topography and former logging road overlooking a natural wooded area and perennial stream. The campus was developed incorporating a Green Philosophy so that all areas are learning places, interior or exterior, programmed or informal. A large portion of the site is split by an east-west running valley and stream-bed that will remain a natural area and location of wild flower fields, student gardens & experimentation zones.
The campus has classroom buildings for its Upper School (6-12) and its Lower School (K-5) as well as a Community Building housing Gymnasiums and Fitness and Wellness facilities. A Commons Building was designed to accommodate Administration, Dining and the Media Center. Last, but not least, an Arts and Science Complex completes the campus. The campus has multiple playgrounds for the younger students as well as football, track, soccer, baseball and softball fields. Schematic Designs were done on each of the planned buildings and Shook Kelley worked with the school to determine what the first phase of construction would be, that being the Community Center along with the use of temporary modular classroom buildings until construction was complete.
All areas are learning places, interior or exterior, programmed or informal.
Materials and systems were selected according to Green Principles to allow Mountain Island Charter School to make the most minimal impact on the site and daily consumption of the facility as possible, and also as a visual and physical teaching tool for the students and community. A variety of building structural systems are incorporated due to the campus-like nature of the individual buildings, including structural masonry, steel frame and wood frame. A common language of sustainable, natural materials were used for the buildings that reflect both the rural location of the campus' natural environment and also the forward looking 'urbanism' of the plan's street, square and pedestrian sequences. The engineering systems also follow Green Principles and allow for flexibility of natural ventilation via building design and orientation. Rain barrels, rain gardens and additional low-tech systems are incorporated as both teaching and best-practice tools.
The functional building program is delineated as a campus of individual buildings with closed and open public/communal spaces for a great variety of interactive learning experiences for students. Indoor and outdoor 'rooms' allow for daily and long-term flexibility for the student, faculty, parent and community and promote interaction with a broad range of variation and opportunity for investigating real world connections.