Woodward Math+Science Academy

College Park, Georgia

We designed a new science and math building for Woodward Academy's upper school campus. The facility sits at the end of a redeveloped quadrangle linking the science building with the upper school classroom building and a renovated, expanded student activities athletic center.

Rooms in the existing science building were remodeled and expanded into lecture lab classrooms for flexibility. With their flexible lecture lab layout, all the new labs foster hands-on, collaborative learning. The new facility also contains math department classrooms and a large shared lecture room for campus-wide use.

This is a LEED Gold certified building. The classrooms face north and south to minimize heat gain. All the instructional spaces have natural light. Bioswales capture the rain run-off and clean the water before returning it to the local Flint River basin. Recycled and locally harvested, produced and transported materials such as steel, concrete and brick are the dominant building materials. This is truly a building that teaches sustainability inside and out.