As the master planning and landscape consultant, Brown Sardina developed site alternatives for improvements to the existing high school and provided solutions to mitigate the direct impacts on the surrounding context, circulation, and athletic facilities. Alternatives explored renovation and addition layouts, circulation strategies, and athletic complex orientations. The resulting master plan highlights a functional and organizational hierarchy between the building layout and circulation patterns while providing congregating opportunities for school and town sponsored events.
Throughout the process a set of distinct courtyards and plaza spaces were created. Each space has a unique use and are defined through a variety of geometric forms, curvilinear shapes, and building inspired striations. Low maintenance materials and native vegetation were chosen to sustain an all year round landscape. As a result, a robust plant identification curriculum has been developed in the environmental science courses.