AXIS
Renovation and Expansion plan for the Monteverde Friends School in Monteverde Costa Rica
After meeting with leaders at the Monteverde Friends School (MFS) intensive research is conducted. Research highlighting topics typical of Quaker values and priorities, in addition to their relationship with the site and its extensive history. Performed in conjunction to this research is that of the existing site and its systems detailing the existing buildings, and the site in its entirety. After meeting again with MFS leaders comfi rming community, culture, and site information is correct, schematic design in the form of three distinct proposals is underway. Once the schematic designs were proposed at another meeting with MFS leaders, coordinators, and valued members of the community, the process of converging the successful aspect of all designs is commenced. This includes processes of unravelling further passive design opportunities allowable on the site, dissecting applicable code reflected onto the developing design, while pursuing nuances and articulate interventions deciduous of programming, views, the surrounding environment, water, and structure all through encompassed research. This research and information is then tied into the fabric of the design, formatted for ease of interpretation, and handed back to the Community meeting including leaders of the MVF, and the Community
Create flexible and accessible learning environments that strengthen the schools connection to the forest while supporting sustainable growth and long term financial resilience; grounded in Quaker values of integrity, community, and stewardship.
Through a phased and adaptable approach, the project will accommodate the schools evolving educational needs and serve as a model for sustainable development in Monteverde through a myriad of tactics spanning naturally treated and locally sourced timber materials, to Stormwater Management design
REGULATED CLASSROOMS
AXIel circulation
Forest immersion
Viewsheds
Shifting versatile spaces
In review, this proposed expansion and renovation of the Monteverde Friends School addresses and offers possible solutions for existing challenges shared by staff members surrounding a necessity for more storage, more classrooms, a division of multipurpose and purposed programming through phased expansion and renovation towards flexed spaces designed to stabilize shifting square footages and environments across all rooms. These asks, and inherit values of both the quaker school and ours are accomplished on the basis of sustainability at the imperative forefront, not as an afterthought.