b'COVER STORY Design renderings courtesy of Station One Architects.The new school has many sustainableAdaptable classroom design allows for adifferent user groups and teachers can and learning environment features. Theunique fluidity throughout the school.come together and collaborate in aschool operates on its own self-containingClassrooms turn into auditoriums,unique way.geothermal field, a renewable resource,auditoriums combined with maker spaces continues Brennan. We also added solarcreate arenas, arenas turn into learningOn the lower entry level we placed a shades on the exterior. Lighting is all onpods, and so on. The result is ancatwalk going down to the drama and motion sensor LEDs, which helps cutenvironment with virtually no limitationsmusic rooms, he adds. By gradually down on energy waste. Natural woodon learning culture. By allowing us tolowering into the ground, we didnt open up the spaces, Brennan explains,change floor heights, but we managed to finishes were also used throughout thewe can turn three or more individualget that extra height that you would want interior as accent finishing. spaces into a single entity. This way,for a drama and music room.30 SOUTHERN INTERIOR CONSTRUCTION ASSOCIATION'