The first new Baltimore public school built in 30 years, Henderson Hopkins is designed as ‘container’ for learning and teaching, adaptable to the progressive visions of the school’s operators over time. The campus is organized into five Houses. Each includes traditional classrooms and flex spaces for multi-modal instruction and individualized learning, as well as a large, luminous volume, the Commons, that serves as a flexible learning and communal lunch room, and connects each House to its exterior Learning Terrace. In support of Johns Hopkins University and EBDI’s vision that education will catalyze this neighborhood’s revitalization, the school’s planning and architecture references the scale, composition, pattern, and rhythm of East Baltimore. Streets are continued through the school’s two-block site as major communal arteries and social centers. Baltimore’s blocks of row houses and internal courtyards inspire the relationship of interior and exterior learning spaces. Facades step down along the street; the ubiquitous neighborhood form-stone is reimagined in the grooved precast concrete; and the tall, glowing Commons set education as a visual landmark following the city’s church steeples’ tradition. Community uses - Family Resource Center, Library, Auditorium and Gym – are located aside the school’s entrance to offer an accessible and welcoming civic front.
CONSULTANTS
Structural Engineer: Faisant Associates, Inc.
MEP+FP Engineer: Global Engineering Solutions
Landscape Architect: Floura Teeter Landscape Architects
Lighting Designer: Flux Studio
Data, Av, Voice, Security, Acoustics: Spexsys, Llc
Geotechnical Engineer: Eba Engineering, Inc.
Civil Engineer: Phoenix Engineering, Inc.
Sustainability: Terra Logos: Eco Architecture
Food Service: Cini-Little International, Inc.
Theater: Fisher Dachs Associates
Signage Designer: Salestrom Design
CONTRACTOR
Construction Manager/Builder: The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company
Program
THE HARRY AND JEANETTE WEINBERG EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER (ECC) AND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER (FRC)
• 175 children, infant-5 years
• 40 estimated staff - Johns Hopkins University, School of Education (SOE) operators
ELMER A. HENDERSON: A JOHNS HOPKINS PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL
• City of Baltimore Public School Contract
• 540 children, kindergarten - 8th grade
• 60 estimated staff - Johns Hopkins University, School of Education (SOE) operators
Project Facts
• 175 children in Early Childhood Center and 540 students in K8
• 125,000 gsf of buildings
• 156,000 gsf of outside spaces
• 5 Houses: House 1 – kindergarten (60 children); House 2 – grades 2-3 (120); House 3 – grades 3-4 (120);
House 4 – grades 4-5 (120); and House 5 – grades 7-8 (120).
• 7 Commons (polycarbonate cubes) – average 2,000 SF each
• 8 outside Learning Terraces (0.55 acres per or 24,000 GSF total / more than one per House)
• Every classroom has access to flexible and multi-use learning spaces
• Every House has immediate access to dedicated exterior learning terraces.
• 15 Early Childhood Center (ECC) classrooms
• 3 Early Childhood Center commons spaces
• 16 Traditional Classes, K-8
• 4 Flexible Learning Spaces
• 8 Multi-Use Spaces
• 1 Art/Music suite
• 6 Dedicated teacher office suites (one per House and ECC)
• 1 Dedicated teacher training room
• Outside public courts and Duncan/Collington Commons – 28,500 GSF (0.66 acres)
• Outside playground and playing fields – 104,00 GSF (2.4 acres)
• 276 Windows (133 are operable) / each room in the school has a window
• 40 Skylights.
• Every Learning Space is naturally daylit, most including skylights, to exceed light level standards during the day without electric light fixtures turned on
• 90% of rooms have a view to the exterior
• 97% of regularly occupied spaces receive natural daylighting
• Library: 9 townhouses c. 1914 gutted and repurposed
• 50% reduction of site storm-water run-off through increased site permeability and on-site storm-water mitigation practices.
• 40% reduction in energy consumption is projected
• Sustainability: Targeting Baltimore City Green Building Standards 3 Stars (LEED Gold equivalent)
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