USGBC Green School Award 2011

Faculty/Student dormitories expands learning beyond the classroom by connecting the school’s educational pedagogy with environmental sustainability at every level. A goal was to make an appropriate response to the great expansive beauty of the site by organizing the spiral of human movement on the site. Just as in a traditional hill town the circulation winds up the hill, so the students and faculty walk along the site lengthwise and then head up a footpath to the next plateau of movement. The dormitories establish a strong edge, clarifying the future development pattern for the school along this lower spiral of the school’s hill.