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Project Tag: flexible learning spaces

  • Parkside Elementary School

    Parkside Elementary School

    A Brighter, More Connected Cafeteria

    In the cafeteria, replacing long, foldable tables with round tables has transformed the space into a more intimate, family-style setting. This change encourages quieter, more focused conversations and allows students across different grade levels to interact. The removal of a stage made room for additional windows, enhancing natural light and reinforcing a connection to the outdoors—something the original design lacked at eye level.

    Celebrating Parkside’s History While Designing for Modern Educational Needs

    Columbus, Indiana is world-renowned for its modern architecture. One of the most notable schools, Parkside Elementary, was designed by Norman C. Fletcher of The Architects Collaborative (TAC) in 1962. CSO’s renovations honor Fletcher’s unique Arts and Crafts (Bauhaus) style that incorporated clean lines, abundant natural daylighting, geometric shapes, and use of wood beaming and decking.

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  • HSE College & Career Academies

    HSE College & Career Academies

    Fishers High School College and Career Academy

    Fishers High School received 185,831 square feet of additions and 20,774 square feet of renovations.

    Hamilton Southeastern High School College and Career Academy

    Additions at Hamilton Southeastern High School totaled 179,852 square feet along with 56,397 square feet of renovations.

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  • Cathedral Innovation Center

    Cathedral Innovation Center

    Informal Study Area Encourages Interaction and Connection

    Previously, there were not spaces within the school that allowed for classes to break out into smaller groups or spaces to accommodate informal study sessions with direct access to instructors. A new study area now provides a space for students to break out of the adjacent classrooms to work on group projects and study after school as a group or individually.

    Where STEM Learning Meets Real-World Innovation

    The Innovation Center is home to modern STEM classrooms and laboratories for Cathedral’s Math & Science Academy, engineering and robotics programs, and more.

    Enhancing Efficiency

    In Cathedral’s previous traditional education model, the classroom and lab areas were separate spaces within the same classroom, forcing one of the areas to go unused. The new design accommodates multiple labs and classes at the same location, increasing collaboration and allowing for an increase in efficiency in new and existing spaces.

    New Cafeteria Creates a Destination for Students

    The Innovation Center also contains the relocated dining and kitchen space in the lower level, allowing students a more flexible approach to food service and more options to the traditional lunch period. An additional Café allows students to utilize a “grab-n-go” concept during the day.

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    CSO’s unwavering commitment to understanding Cathedral’s goals for the project resulted in an Innovation Center design which exceeded the school’s expectations. We could not have worked with a better team, They were responsive to our wants and needs, quick to respond, and extremely professional. The whole process was easy. “

    –Grace Rodecap, Cathedral High School Director of Marketing

     As quoted in Building Excellence Magazine

    A New Front Door to Campus

    The Innovation Center was designed and constructed as an addition to Kelly Hall. To acheive the square footage goals of the project, the existing main entry would need to be replaced.

    Preserving Iconic History

    Generations of Cathedral students and staff entered the building through the main entry in Kelly Hall. When it was determined that the addition would encompass the main entry, designers opted to retain the original entry and original access to Kelly Hall by incorporating it into the new design. The new addition incorporates a three-story open atrium between the old Kelly Hall and the architecture of the new addition. Exterior materials used on the addition are blonde brick (same used on SLC), glass, metal panel and stone veneer panels. The old limestone façade of Kelly Hall was preserved as a feature of the new, glass-enclosed front entrance.

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  • Westfield High School

    Westfield High School

    Distributed Dining Options

    A variety of new food serving areas are spread throughout the school, giving students more choice and flexibility about where they eat. These dining options—from a café, to outdoor courtyards or the large gathering stair—allow students to choose the environment that’s right for them.

    Growing Demand for Career-Ready Programs

    New state-of-the-art culinary spaces and a new construction lab support WHS’s goal of ensuring all students are life ready upon graduation.

    Room to Perform and Room to Grow.

    Renovations and additions added new band, orchestra, and choir spaces along with new storage options to accommodate growing performing arts programs.

    Former Pool Repurposed as a Wellness Center

    When WWS opened their new centralized aquatic center, it created an opportunity to turn the previous pool at the high school into a space that serves not only their athletes but their burgeoning fitness and wellness course offerings as well.

    The new space was outfitted with the latest in fitness and weight lifting equipment, a large cardio room, and 40 yards of synthetic turf for indoor drills and exercises.

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