NOTRE DAME ACADEMY - Geddis Architects

NOTRE DAME ACADEMY
Early Childhood Center, Staten Island, NY
DESIGN TEAM
Barbara L. Geddis, FAIA
Principal–in-Charge
John Brice, AIA
Maria Baptista, AIA
Winston Collins, AIA
Victoria Bigliano, ASID
Interior Designer
CLIENT
Notre Dame Academy
Staten Island, NY
PROJECT DATA
Type of School and Grades Served:
Early Education, Pre-K-2
Capacity: 112 Students
Area of Building: 8,600 SF
Total Project Cost:
$4.7 Million
Completion Date:
September 2008
O’Dea, Lynch, Abbattista (MEP)
Hawthorne, NY
The one story, freestanding early childhood center is designed exclusively for 3,
4, 5 and 6 year olds. Learning through play and demonstration, the children
are organized into four, self-sufficient, L-shaped classrooms, around a central
commons featuring the children’s art. Each classroom has at least two daylight
exposures, built in cubbies, alcoves for wet science and art, private toilets, individual outside entrances and shared covered porches. There is radiant heating under the floors, since the school day includes napping on personal mats
on the floors.
On the nine acre deeply wooded, hilltop campus, the new center’s exterior
harmonizes with four other academic buildings, two of which were originally
Cotswold style private homes from the early 1920’s. The new center is brick and
barse board with cottage-type, divided light windows and steep roof lines. With
its own play yard immediately adjacent to the north and its own new entrance
and parking drop-off, the center is the new north anchor of the campus.
Jeffrey Nachman (Structural)
Chappaqua, NY
Wohl O’Mara (Civil)
Staten Island, NY
Geddis
Architects
Architecture . Planning . Interiors
NOTRE DAME ACADEMY
Early Childhood Center, Staten Island, NY