DESIGN SOLUTION - Our response was not to mimic the older buildings, but to combine them into one child-friendly structure. The design makes the most of the sloping land, so that the single-story front elevation becomes a two-story structure moving toward the back of the site. To further reduce the scale, this elevation has two distinct halves in two colors, red and white – reminiscent of New England barns and houses. The front also incorporates elements found in a child's drawing of a traditional school – a clock tower at the main entry and a bell tower for the kindergarten, both salvaged from the previous schools.

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