Mater Brickell Academy

Design team
Rolando Llanes, AIA (Principal-in-Charge / Design Architect); Julio Guillen, AIA (Senior Associate / Project Manager); Alvaro Briganti, RA (Project Architect)

Mater Brickell Academy Charter School is a middle/high school in the Brickell Avenue corridor of Miami. Opened in 2022, the school serves students in the urban core and represents the first public high school built in the city’s downtown in over three decades.

Mater Brickell’s proximity to Miami’s financial center aligns with the school’s Entrepreneurship and Tech Career curriculum, which provides students with rigorous STEM courses focused on business pathways and internships. To that end, Mater Brickell is designed to be architecturally compatible with the character of the Brickell corridor, an area of high rises and iconic buildings that have come to define the architecture of downtown Miami.

The school is situated along Interstate 95, which provides the campus with significant visibility and exposure. The facility accommodates 1,500 students in grades six through 12. In addition to the requisite academic program, the school has a five-level parking garage, a gymnasium, a lecture hall and cafeteria and food service functions.

The school is designed to integrate itself into the fabric of the adjacent multifamily neighborhood by activating the street edge, as well as taking advantage of its exposure to the highway. The multilevel building is composed of a linear component that runs north-south and an adjacent block that houses the parking garage, the gymnasium and cafeteria. In 2023, the project received a Platinum designation by the Florida Green Building Coalition, underscoring the building’s adherence to sustainable design principles.

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