PROJECT Hyde Addision Elementary School - DGS

LOCATION  Washington, District of Columbia US

PROJECT COMPLETION DATE  8/30/2019

ARCHITECT  Shinberg Levinas Architectural Design Inc

ASSOCIATED ARCHITECT/DESIGNER  NA

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN TEAM  Salo Levinas (Design Principal), Milton Shinberg (Principal), Maria Gorodetskaya(Project Architect), Desmond Grimball (Architect in Charge), Olga Snowden ( Project Designer), Irena Nafpliotis(Architect)

OWNER/CLIENT D.C. Public Schools

CONTRACTOR/CONSTRUCTION MANAGER  MCM Build

PHOTOGRAPHER  Alan Karchmer

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT Bradley Site Design, Inc
CIVIL ENGINEER AMT, LLC
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER Robert Silman Associates Structural Engineers
MECHANICAL ENGINEER Setty & Associates, LTD MEP
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SUMMARY DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT  

2020 AIA Potomac Valley
Excellence in Design Awards

Project Name: Hyde Addison Public School DC
Project Location (City, State): Washington D.C.
Project Category: Institutional Architecture
Project Synopsis: The Hyde Addison Elementary School project represented a campus modernization to current DGS standards in an historic urban fabric. It involved the renovation of a 70,000-sf existing historic facility and an addition of almost 30,000-sf of new space to the complex. The Addition contains a gymnasium with a basketball court, stage and bleacher seating, as well as a music room, health suite, library, cafeteria, offices and four new classrooms. The architects utilized a modern terracotta rain screen and sunscreen baguette systems, both installed vertically, challenging the common horizontal use of terracotta screens. The addition blends perfectly into historic Georgetown, while standing out as a distinguished contemporary building on its own. The project required extensive study of the site and engagement with the school and community as well as local and national historic preservation bodies.
Project Sustainability: Hyde Addison is an Elementary School Campus, unique in that the Georgetown site is comprised of three buildings, all joined together into one cohesive plan that includes:
The Hyde Building, built around 1910 (modernization completed in 2014)
The Addison Building, built around 1895 (first modernization in 2008; second round to be underway during the current round of construction.
The Addition (finalized in 2019).
As approved by the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, the unifying architectural concept is the “Three-Box” scheme, in which each of these elements relate to each other by having a rectangular mass that together create an ensemble: two traditional and one modern. All three have masonry in their skins, but the use of glass, and therefore the interior spaces, differ in the specifics of the masonry materials and the use of glass.
Referencing materials, the traditional buildings have solid masonry with “punched” windows that are placed in a regular pattern in the “box.” The new building has a similar approach in its main mass (its “box”), but it also has a wrap-around of glass with terra cotta fins that contain three linked elements:
• The entrance;
• The link from the addition to Hyde (essentially a bridge); and
• The façade that contains the media center.
This use of glass is intended to help see this new “box” from the outside, even though the program spaces (in this case the media center and the lobby) wrap around the “box.”
While the materials of the buildings are masonry, the design team was directed by historic reviewers to not attempt to match the brick of either historic building, as they are not the same as each other and it is a principle of design in historic districts to differentiate old and new.
Therefore, the new building has terra cotta panels on the “box” and terra cotta fins on the first floor exterior glass portions that “tune” the visibility of the inside from the outside.
Hyde Addison is pursuing LEEDv3 (2009) BD&C Schools Gold Certification
 

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MEDIA FOR DOWNLOAD
Project/Jury PDF

IMAGES (Captions and Photographer Credit)

1. EXTERIOR VIEW - Alan Karchmer Photographer
2. GENERAL VIEW - Alan Karchmer
3. STAIRS FROM LOBBY - Alan Karchmer

4. ADDITION ENTRANCE - Alan Karchmer
5. VIEW FROM LIBRARY - Alan Karchmer
6. VIEW FROM INSIDE - Alan Karchmer
7. INTERIOR LIBRARY VIEW - Alan Karchmer
8. CORRIDOR VIEW - Alan Karchmer