Wayfinding Through Color
The design utilizes three color palettes—red, green, and blue—to distinguish each of the three academic wings.
Project Tag: school
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Deer Creek Elementary School
Built for Flexible Collaboration
Flexible collaboration was achieved through grade-level learning communities, with six classrooms surrounding a multifunctional activity commons. This activity commons serves as a space for STEM activities, grade-level presentations, indoor recess, push-in remediation, and more.
Connected to each activity commons, an outdoor courtyard or balcony offers an additional learning environment.
Designed to Adapt
An operable wall connects the gymnasium and cafeteria, creating a large gathering space when opened or maintaining separation of spaces for lunchtime and P.E. classes when closed.
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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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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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Silver Creek High School
CTE Spaces Empower Real-World Learning
Capitalizing on a desire to expand elective course offerings, new specialty areas were added to accommodate TV/Radio, Project Lead the Way (PLTW), Culinary Arts, Entrepreneurship, and Art programs. These spaces offer crucial support for the Silver Creek Career Academy Program.
Culinary Arts
A new, state‑of‑the‑art culinary lab supports the high school’s robust Culinary Arts program, featuring Advanced Foods & Nutrition and a Culinary Arts/Hospitality pathway. These offerings provide essential life skills while preparing students for continued education and careers in the culinary field.
Project Lead the Way programs offer hands-on, real-world STEM learning.
New STEM labs help prepare students for careers in engineering, biomedical sciences, and computer science.
A Cohesive Design Supporting School Pride
The new addition stretches across the front of the building, establishing an inviting new entrance visible from the main road into town and proudly displaying Silver Creek’s blues and electric orange. These exterior colors and materials are repeated within the new main interior lobby, connecting the exterior and interior design.
Touches of orange and blue throughout the school create a unique sense of place and ensure there would be no question you were at Silver Creek High School.
Flexible Learning Spaces Designed to Promote Connection, Creativity, and Student Engagement
Collaborative flex spaces were located throughout the building to accommodate new learning styles. Adaptable furniture supports collaborative work, independent study, and social connection, while strategically placed study rooms and breakout spaces encourage small-group engagement and evolving teaching styles.
Athletic Improvements
The project included a brand new football stadium as well as new turf baseball and softball fields.
Theater and Performing Arts
The additions and renovations at Silver Creek expanded performing arts facilities to provide the first purpose-built band room, choir room, and state of the art auditorium.
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