Rice Elementary School

Jesse Rice Elementary School (2014)

Macon, Georgia, U.S.A.

Commercial, Education, School

This is not one of the best schools I've attended as a kid. This was the first school I've known to have bullies and careless adults. It's been years though so I don't know what's like now. I thought of redesigning it and making a new facility of it. Bibb County BOE is planning a 2014 Improvement plan and redesigning schools. I pretended as though they would redo Rice. The real plan is that they would shut the school down, but I imagined as though they destroyed the old building and rose the new one up from the ashes like Sherman burning cities. 

If this elementary school were to exist it would be one of the largest in Southwest of Macon, and might be the only elementary school since schools are being phased out in the area. I used stone, brick, and also metal. I also used gray panel material like what you would see on the futuristic building. On the new Rice rendering; You would see it above the windows, at the front entrance, and the back hall entrance. I sort of took the usual and typical school style when it comes to mapping. 

The map above is the map of the new school structure. It's 'kind of' like an architecture blueprint but it's just a 'pre-draft'. The Gym is on one end of the school and the Cafeteria/Auditorium is on the other. The media center is also next to the gym and the computer lab is multi-purpose to the media center. There are also three hallways, The K-1 hall, The 4-5 hall, and The 2-3 hall, which tell what grade classes should be in each. The K-1 and the 2-3 hallways are the same so it really doesn't matter which is which, but by how the classrooms are designed what determines what grade level uses them. So, I'm sure many would ask 'Why didn't you do this in order from Grades K-5?', well good question. I wanted to design the school in symmetry. Look at the hallways and put a line through the 4-5 hallway(200 hall) and see the symmetrical appearance. Since 4th and 5th grade classrooms don't have restrooms, I decided to place it in the middle and the classes with the bathrooms can be at the end. Also, The classes without the bathrooms don't take a lot of space, so there is also a possibility of a future addition.

The left picture shows you the current school, and the right picture shows you the possible render school in Ariel. It's not that accurate, but clear enough to see the point. The playground that currently exist on the North part might not be effected by the school upgrade. Also, The bus ramp is at the side and not up front, and carpool is up front and not some dirt road surrounding the playground.  

This is just a model of the entire building.