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Rockford Public Schools K-5 Prototype School: Architecture as Community
CannonDesign

Main Entry at Town Hall flex-space. The main shared space for the school for gathering and play, features abundant natural light paired with a dividing wall that engages students through color and mass/void relationships to enhance learning.

Photo credit:
Christopher Barrett

Rockford Public Schools K-5 Prototype School: Architecture as Community
CannonDesign

All activities in the school begin and end in the town hall space: student arrival, art, food, gym, meetings, safe and supervised play.

Photo credit:
Christopher Barrett

Rockford Public Schools K-5 Prototype School: Architecture as Community
CannonDesign

At capacity, the hub space provides daylight and a variety of seating types that engage the students. Furniture is paired with the interior mass walls for flexibility, storage and learning through shape and color.

Photo credit:
Christopher Barrett

Rockford Public Schools K-5 Prototype School: Architecture as Community
CannonDesign

Interior design and architecture are integrated to create a cohesive design narrative, always focusing on the scale of the student. Detailed relationships enhance awareness of light, mass and color.

Photo credit:
Christopher Barrett

Rockford Public Schools K-5 Prototype School: Architecture as Community
CannonDesign

Moveable foam furniture and corridors that incorporate engaging colors and shapes encourage students to move around, engage and interact with each other in between classes.

Photo credit:
Christopher Barrett

Rockford Public Schools K-5 Prototype School: Architecture as Community
CannonDesign

The library opens directly onto the town hall hub. Activities begin to spill out of their confines and take place within an open - yet secure - environment.

Photo credit:
Christopher Barrett

Rockford Public Schools K-5 Prototype School: Architecture as Community
CannonDesign

The metaphor of home and village is carried throughout. Spaces for gathering and break-out provide the students the spaces they need in order to engage at their own comfort.

Photo credit:
Christopher Barrett

Rockford Public Schools K-5 Prototype School: Architecture as Community
CannonDesign

The library and media center, host a variety of seating options for both groups and individual learning.

Photo credit:
Christopher Barrett

Rockford Public Schools K-5 Prototype School: Architecture as Community
CannonDesign

The gymnasium opens to the town hall space creating visual and physical connections, expanding the use of the space, and bringing daylight into the environment.

Photo credit:
Christopher Barrett

Rockford Public Schools K-5 Prototype School: Architecture as Community
CannonDesign

1st and 2nd grade classrooms surround a protected learning commons with access to abundant natural light and allow for supervision of the students by all teachers. These breakout spaces can be reconfigured and are flexible to support multiple learning styles.

Photo credit:
Christopher Barrett

Rockford Public Schools K-5 Prototype School: Architecture as Community
CannonDesign

3rd through 5th grades have classrooms at the exterior with an adjacent learning commons located just off the circulation, allowing the older, more independent students to have a transition zone between circulation and classrooms. These breakout spaces can be reconfigured and are flexible to support multiple learning styles.

Photo credit:
Christopher Barrett

Rockford Public Schools K-5 Prototype School: Architecture as Community
CannonDesign

Different grade levels are easily identified from the exterior of the building through changes in color and massing.

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Christopher Barrett

Rockford Public Schools K-5 Prototype School: Architecture as Community
CannonDesign

The exterior of the buildings feature a variety of materials, colors and patterns, inviting students and community members.

Photo credit:
Christopher Barrett

Rockford Public Schools K-5 Prototype School: Architecture as Community
CannonDesign

Rockford's new K-5 school is an architecture for community.

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Robert Benson

Rockford Public Schools K-5 Prototype School: Architecture as Community
CannonDesign

Workshops with students developed new ways of seeing how the young children recognized, interacted and inhabited their own spaces. These ideas would be integral into developing the architecture of the building and interior spaces.

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Rockford Public Schools / CannonDesign

Rockford Public Schools K-5 Prototype School: Architecture as Community
CannonDesign

Early concept sketch of village design by students

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Rockford Public Schools

Rockford Public Schools K-5 Prototype School: Architecture as Community
CannonDesign

Concept sketch of village design, indicating color and form for the kindergarten learning commons.

Photo credit:
Robert Benson

Rockford Public Schools K-5 Prototype School: Architecture as Community
CannonDesign

Plan Perspective of Rockford Public Schools

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CannonDesign

École Sainte-Anne - A new redesigned schoolyard
Taktik design

Socialisation area

Photo credit:
Maxime Brouillet

École Sainte-Anne - A new redesigned schoolyard
Taktik design

Garden area

Photo credit:
Maxime Brouillet