Pine School

Canopy reflects lights at night to illuminate court.

Project details

• Project Name: The Pine School
• Client: The Pine School/Headmaster Jim Cantwell
• Project Type: 6-12 Independent School
• Principal Designer/s: Scott Hughes & John Umbanhowar
• Design Team: David Montalba, Michael Knopoff, Daniel Huh, Ayako Mizushiro
• Contractor/s: Weitz Construction
• Date of commencement of project: October 2005
• Date of completion of project: February 2007
• Location of site: Hobe Sound, Florida
• Site Area: 50 acres
• Built-up Area: 102,000 sq. ft.
• Cost of Construction/Execution: $ 18 Million

Detailed view of the library which serves as a bridge for the two wings of the school.

Words from the Architect

Education requires an elusive dose of order and chaos, predictability and improvisation in order to succeed. The program for this school called for classrooms and labs for group learning, a library for individual and group study, and places for assembly, performance, athletics and relaxation. It is an academic village where groups emerge, are disbanded and regroup - a community for learning, growing and discovering.

View from the courtyard looking west at the school.

The campus design is a functional and formal response to a specific educational vision and program of both active and continuous expansion and inward change. Its structure promotes education and profoundly engages the specifics of its location: "touched" environment re-defining itself through the introduction of children and teachers.

View from playing fields into lighted courtyard.

Primary components

• Stucco
• Fritted structural glazing
• Perforated aluminum
• Galvalume siding
• Polished concrete
• Fiber cement panels
• Tensile fabric shading components
• Extensive day lighting

Photographs

View from northern walkway to south side of courtyard.

Shade is offered

Cantilevered galvalume clad classrooms accentuate the stucco walls.

Western elevation of "bridge" at sunset.

Credits

• Text by John Umbanhowar, Courtesy of SH_Arc Scott Hughes Architects
• Photographs by Ken Hayden, Courtesy of SH_Arc Scott Hughes Architects