PatColo
20th November 2014, 11:41 PM
WIRED Mag:
The New Sandy Hook Elementary School Is All About Invisible Security (http://www.wired.com/2014/11/new-sandy-hook-elementary-school-invisible-security/)
By Margaret Rhodes (http://www.wired.com/author/margaret-rhodes/)
11.14.14
Permalink (http://www.wired.com/2014/11/new-sandy-hook-elementary-school-invisible-security/)
http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/1Perspective_Courtyard.jpg
The new Sandy Hook Elementary School, designed by Connecticut-based Svigals + Partners, is slated to open in 2016.
http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Perspective_Courtyard.jpg
The new building will have three new courtyards, thanks to a new floor plan shaped like an 'E' with four limbs. This also, in theory, allows for multiple evacuation routes.
http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Perspective_Entry.jpg
Only buses will be able to pull up in front of the school. Other visitors park in a designated lot and enter via one of three bridges that double as rainwater collection points.
http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Perspective_Main-Lobby.jpg
The school is set farther back into the surrounding wetlands. This, and floor-to-ceiling windows, affords a more expansive view of the entrance from the building, which makes it easier to see when visitors are approaching.
When the 2016 school year starts, students and faculty will return to Sandy Hook Elementary School for the first time since a gunman killed 20 students and six adults. They will return to a new building and landscape thoughtfully, but subtly, outfitted with security measures designed by local architecture firm Svigals + Partners.
The town of Newtown, Connecticut demolished the former building last fall, nearly a year after the shooting. It’s hard to imagine teachers, students, or parents would have wanted to return to a place filled with horrifying memories, like the parking lot where police gathered terrified children and faculty after evacuating them from the school on the morning of December 14, 2012. Yet the school had some features the Sandy Hook community loved, and has missed since the school closed.
more, with drawings: http://www.wired.com/2014/11/new-sandy-hook-elementary-school-invisible-security
The New Sandy Hook Elementary School Is All About Invisible Security (http://www.wired.com/2014/11/new-sandy-hook-elementary-school-invisible-security/)
By Margaret Rhodes (http://www.wired.com/author/margaret-rhodes/)
11.14.14
Permalink (http://www.wired.com/2014/11/new-sandy-hook-elementary-school-invisible-security/)
http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/1Perspective_Courtyard.jpg
The new Sandy Hook Elementary School, designed by Connecticut-based Svigals + Partners, is slated to open in 2016.
http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Perspective_Courtyard.jpg
The new building will have three new courtyards, thanks to a new floor plan shaped like an 'E' with four limbs. This also, in theory, allows for multiple evacuation routes.
http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Perspective_Entry.jpg
Only buses will be able to pull up in front of the school. Other visitors park in a designated lot and enter via one of three bridges that double as rainwater collection points.
http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Perspective_Main-Lobby.jpg
The school is set farther back into the surrounding wetlands. This, and floor-to-ceiling windows, affords a more expansive view of the entrance from the building, which makes it easier to see when visitors are approaching.
When the 2016 school year starts, students and faculty will return to Sandy Hook Elementary School for the first time since a gunman killed 20 students and six adults. They will return to a new building and landscape thoughtfully, but subtly, outfitted with security measures designed by local architecture firm Svigals + Partners.
The town of Newtown, Connecticut demolished the former building last fall, nearly a year after the shooting. It’s hard to imagine teachers, students, or parents would have wanted to return to a place filled with horrifying memories, like the parking lot where police gathered terrified children and faculty after evacuating them from the school on the morning of December 14, 2012. Yet the school had some features the Sandy Hook community loved, and has missed since the school closed.
more, with drawings: http://www.wired.com/2014/11/new-sandy-hook-elementary-school-invisible-security