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This is The Pine School Building, an architectural project that was designed by Scott Hughes & John Umbanhowar Architect, Located in Hobe Sound, Florida with 50 acres site area and has 102,000 sq. ft. building area. This Pine School Building project construction was completed on February 2007 and cost $ 18 Million for its construction.

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.

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.

Primary components

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

Credits

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