SCHUMO COURTYARD, Perkiomen School, Pennsburg, PA
The new 35,000 sq. ft. Academic Building is placed to create an entry plaza on Seminary Avenue and a terraced courtyard with the existing Kehs Hall. The courtyard leads to the lower quad and the entrance plaza for the new building. The courtyard design features retaining walls, amphitheater steps and a pergola to create a variety of opportunities to “hang out” and for other informal and formal activities and events such as receptions and graduation.
The street scape along Seminary Avenue, separated by planted islands from the street, creates a promenade connecting the historic buildings.
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KRIEBEL HALL ENTRANCE & RAIN GARDEN, Perkiomen School, Pennsburg, PA
The main objective of this project is the creation of an attractive entrance for Kriebel Hall, which is the administrative and historic center for Perkiomen School. The project included screening an enormous chilling plant and other utilities placed directly across from the entrance door and providing an attractive connection from the parking lot located across a drainage ditch and replacing the dusty eroded and barren slopes and unsightly asphalt that presented a poor image of the Perkiomen School.
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The design creates a safe and attractive experience for visitors, students, faculty as an arrival, waiting, drop-off and pickup area. The runoff from the surrounding building and surfaces was impounded in the existing island graded and planted with native plants to create a Rain Garden. Existing site conditions are shown in the images above and the landscape improvements are shown in the images below.
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The Knox School – Entrance and Courtyard, St James, Long Island, New York
This 60 acre campus, a former estate, overlooks the west shore of Stony Brook Harbor and consists of many historic buildings designed by the firm of Peabody, Wilson and Brown dating from 1912 -1918. This site, with Georgian Revival main house and the Shingle style dependencies, is on the National register of historic places.
This design phase of the project focused on the most used and visible northern part of the campus with the specific goal of creating a welcoming entrance and an attractive and safe streetscape leading to an arrival courtyard surrounded by
important public facilities.
The designs represent a modern interpretation of the vernacular design elements of the coastal and farming setting that includes split rail fence, lighthouses, etc.
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