Architecture | Academic Design | New Construction and Adaptive Re-Use
Goshen, KY
Completed: 2014
PUBLICATION WAVE 3 – NBC (East Northeast Louisville) (Title:” Demolition Begins on St. Francis School” - 05/21/13)
Courier Journal - 03/04/09
Education Design Network - 02/17/09
Courier Journal - 02/15/09
Business First - 11/21/08
Project Description
The school needed a new facility to house a combination gymnasium and performing arts center that would embrace the school’s environmental and educational values. The design provides an indoor/outdoor theatre and multi-purpose indoor/outdoor athletics space. Weather permitting, the east wall of the gym opens up to a canopied courtyard. The courtyard is the bridge between the indoor facility, the outdoor facility, and the campus beyond. For natural, diffuse light, the bright red metal walls “peel up” to allow indirect light inside. The building also serves as an educational tool for environmental sustainability. Students can see the open connection to the outdoors coupled with a roof exhaust system to provide a convective cooling effect. They know the building is made of sustainable materials and utilizes integrated ventilation, and that the campus has zero storm water run-off. They see how rarely the interior needs artificial lighting by day. And they know that their new dual-purpose building surpasses Americans with Disabilities Act compliances.
Credits
Design and Architecture:
Douglas Pierson (as Partner with (fer) studio, LLP), Youn Choi
Justin Williams, project architect
Photography: Ted Wathen, Quadrant Studio, Youn Choi