Hull Prairie Intermediate School

This new, 900-student STEM-themed school is designed to reinforce collaboration and teaming. The academic heart of the school is organized into eight teams for delivery of the core curriculum—math, science, social studies, and language arts. These houses contain learning studios for more structured instruction and adjacent collaboration centers for individual and group collaborative activities. The collaboration areas are open, flexible spaces interlaced with a series of glassed-in special project spaces—all outfitted with mobile furniture and seamless access to tech systems. Centrally situated and adjacent to the student spaces are teacher planning areas designed to facilitate further interaction and collaboration of teachers and staff. The interior was developed to enhance the quality of the space by emphasizing transparency, color, and authenticity. Color was used throughout as a means of wayfinding to support the autonomous experience.

Between these collaboration centers is a knowledge center (on both levels). It is a flexible space that includes a variety of utilities for STEM and research activities. Adjacent to this indoor space is access to outdoor studios that support additional STEM activities. This school does not include a conventional media center space—the collaboration and knowledge centers serve this function in a more flexible and dynamic fashion for all students.

Another major feature of the school is a dynamic multipurpose venue for dining and performances. Situated at the heart of the school, this space includes terraced platforms to improve site lines for informal theatrical events and assemblies.

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