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Title: Timothy Dwight Elementary School, Connecticut.
Language: English
Authors: Weathersby, William
Source: Architectural Record. Feb 2002 190(2):104-107.
Peer Reviewed: N
Page Count: 4
Publication Date: 2002
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Descriptive
Descriptors: Architects, Architecture, Building Design, Building Innovation, Educational Facilities Design, Elementary Education, Elementary Schools, Flexible Facilities, Illustrations, Multipurpose Classrooms, Photographs, School Buildings
ISSN: 0003-858X
Abstract: Describes the design of a multipurpose addition to an elementary school in New Haven, completed by the Yale Urban Design Workshop. Includes drawings and photographs. (EV)
Entry Date: 2002
Accession Number: EJ645178
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  Value: <anid>AN0006139848;arr01feb.02;2002Feb19.16:32;v1.3</anid> <jsection id="AN0006139848-1"> BUILDING TYPES STUDY 806: K-12 SCHOOLS</jsection> <title id="AN0006139848-2">TIMOTHY DWIGHT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT </title> <sbt id="AN0006139848-3">MICHAEL HAVERLAND AND THE YALE URBAN DESIGN WORKSHOP ENHANCE A NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL WITH A MULTIPURPOSE ADDITION.</sbt> <hd id="AN0006139848-4"> Program </hd> <p>Four blocks from campus, students from Yale University have learned lessons in the real world of planning and design for elementary education. Collaborating with community groups and the local government, the Yale Urban Design Workshop (UDW) enhanced the Timothy Dwight Elementary School with a 9,300-square-foot, multipurpose addition. An eight-year-old organization that grew out of a design studio, the UDW brings together faculty and students from the School of Architecture and Yale's other professional schools to provide planning and design services for communities in Connecticut. Although the forum does not typically engage in construction projects, in this case federal, state, and local grants allowed this leap forward. “The Dwight School project is a model of how students can play an active role in community planning,” says Michael Haverland, AIA, Yale assistant professor and UDW codirector, who was the project's principal designer, aided by 17 Yale students from various disciplines. “Students learned to navigate the intricacies of community coalitions and tight budget constraints.”</p> <p>The project was launched as a three-day community design charrette in 1995. With more than 300 participants including the mayor, civic officials, and local residents, the sessions targeted expansion of the school on Edgewood Avenue. Designed by Eliot Noyes in 1963, the single-story, 38,000-square-foot school is situated within a low-income neighborhood and lacked an indoor recreation space or assembly hall. Its classrooms have no windows. A program was developed for a multipurpose room to accommodate its 500 students while also serving as a community meeting place. A $2.4 million grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development was awarded to Yale to develop the plan. Remaining funds were allocated by the State of Connecticut and the New Haven Board of Education.</p> <hd id="AN0006139848-5"> Solution </hd> <p>With maintenance and security as priorities, client mandates developed through the charrette included no flat roofs, no porches where the homeless could gather at night, the use of durable, vandal-resistant materials, and more natural light.</p> <p>Rising at the west end of the school, the L-shaped addition creates a new, prominent entry axis.</p> <p>A supergraphic billboard announces the school's presence to the neighborhood. The short leg of the building's footprint runs perpendicular to two wings of the school to frame three outdoor spaces that pinwheel around it: a small playground, a formal entrance garden, and a flexible courtyard. A double-height, elliptical lobby serves as a pivot point between a classroom wing, the multipurpose room, and two office/meeting rooms earmarked for community organizations.</p> <p>The 57-by-90-foot multipurpose room functions as a gymnasium and auditorium. Roll-out basketball goals, a folding stage platform, and stacking chairs can all be stored, and the room opens onto both the public courtyard and playing field.</p> <hd id="AN0006139848-6"> Commentary </hd> <p>The Dwight expansion displays a creative exploration of materials and budgetary ingenuity. To counterbalance the dull concrete and beige brick cladding of the existing structure while relating to its masonry construction, alternating courses of green glazed brick and white split-faced brick clad the addition, interspersed with sections of corrugated metal. A dropped ceiling in the lobby is stripped to its perforated aluminum surface and dramatically uplit. Standard fire-rated doors in the multipurpose room were installed upside down so children could see through the windows, and small windows punched through the base of the walls also allow child-size views. Filled with light and reconnected to the community, the vibrant addition makes the Dwight's classrooms pale in comparison. They seem ripe for a redesign.</p> <p> <bold> Architect: </bold> Michael Haverland Architect/Yale Urban Design Workshop—Michael Haverland, AIA, designer and project architect; Paul Arougheti, Ben deRubertis, Al Dasher, Dominique Davison, Marcos Diaz-Gonzalez, Thomas Dunn, Joe Fong, Billy Forrest, Mark Gage, Kristina Lamour, Jen Lau, Michael Lee Poy, Tom Morbitzer, Kieran Trihey, Paul Whittaker, Jim Woodworth, Belinda Young, Yale Urban Design Workshop students</p> <p> <bold> Client: </bold> City of New Haven, New Haven Board of Education</p> <p> <bold> Engineer: </bold> Salamone Associates</p> <p> <bold> Consultants: </bold> Balmori Associates (landscape); Thomas Dunn/Paul Whitaker, Yale School of Drama (lighting); Kristina Lamour, Yale School of Art (graphic design)</p> <p> <bold> General contractor: </bold> A. Prete Construction</p> <p> <bold> Size: </bold> 9,300 square feet; 500 students</p> <p> <bold> Cost: </bold> $2.07 million (construction)</p> <p> <bold> Completion date: </bold> May 2001</p> <hd id="AN0006139848-7"> Sources </hd> <p> <bold> Green glazed brick: </bold> Elgin-Butler</p> <p> <bold> White split-faced brick: </bold> Alba Stone Products</p> <p> <bold> Corrugated metal: </bold> Reynolds Corporation/RAC</p> <p>DIAGRAM</p> <p>PHOTO (COLOR): The standing-seam aluminum-roofed addition extends the school's role as a community activities center, announcing itself with bold signage (opposite). The white split-faced brick relates to the precast concrete of the existing school, while alternating runs of green glazed brick introduce color and texture (above and below). Clerestories light the multipurpose space and project the school's identity to the neighborhood.</p> <p>PHOTO (COLOR): The elliptical foyer connects the addition to the classroom wing and provides a new entry point for the community (below). One of two office/meeting rooms required by the community (opposite, top). The addition frames a new playground for kinder-garteners, well within view from indoors (opposite, below).</p> <aug> <p>By William Weathersby Jr.</p> </aug>
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