5:00 pm February 21 – 5:00 pm February 26, 2008
Cavin Family Traveling Fellowship
2008 Competition Poster
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The competition assignment for the 2008 Cavin Family Traveling Fellowship is to design
a Land Campus that celebrates Maria Montessori’s vision of adolescents as children of
the soil. The design solution for the Land Campus of a Minneapolis Montessori school
should integrate Montessori’s hands-on educational philosophy with environmental
awareness and organic food production. Middle school students from the Minneapolis
school will be in residence at the Land Campus for several weeks at a time during the
school year. However, the proposed design solution must provide opportunities for
leasing the facility for conferences and retreats when school is not in session. A frugal
and efficient design approach should make the campus economically viable.
The primary design parameter is the environmental context of the remote northern
Wisconsin site of approximately 200 acres. A lake, a pond, woodlands, and open fields
create beautiful vistas and eco-systems that must be respected. The mission is to
design a facility that accommodates the safe, accessible and secure setting for
education and at the same time creates a challenging world for testing the limits of
learning. The design of the land outside of the property is beyond the scope of this
competition.
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The remote sylvan environment provides a setting where the harvesting, conservation
and recycling of energy, water and materials is particularly important. The proposed
designs should make these processes explicit and incorporate the programmatic and
environmental elements into a unified solution.
Site Program - Site Elements:
| Arrival Sign |
| Walking and hiking trails |
| Fire Circle |
| Class meeting areas |
| Celebration sites – one of which is to have protection from rain for 100 people |
| Meditation sites |
| Lookout stations |
| Pond Viewing Platform |
| Sports fields including a softball field and a soccer field |
| Camping area - for 75 people with composting toilets, outdoor showers and sinks; access to Commons including a softball field and a soccer field |
| Vegetable garden – 2 acres |
| Cold frames |
| Composting area |
| Parking for: |
| 2 school buses |
| 2 vans |
| 20 cars |
| Other site elements that would illustrate the integration of the educational programs, the energy, materials & water systems, and the ecology of the site should be included. |
Site Program - Site Buildings:
| Animal Barn (goats, sheep, pigs) |
400 SF |
| Chicken Coop |
100 SF |
| Subtotal |
500 SF |
| Work Barn |
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| Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) sorting area |
400 SF |
| Walk-in cooler |
200 SF |
| Summer Kitchen (with running water during warm seasons) |
200 SF |
| Tool storage |
200 SF |
| Exterior vegetable processing sinks; exterior fish washing sinks |
0 SF |
| Art studio |
400 SF |
| Woodworking shop |
400 SF |
| Subtotal |
1,800 SF |
| Tractor Barn |
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| Vehicle storage |
1,200 SF |
| Machine shop |
200 SF |
| Subtotal |
1,400 SF |
| Total Site Buildings |
3,700 SF |
Building Program:
| Commons |
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Dining room to seat 100 for dining and/or assemblies
(including 300 SF accessible stage) |
2,500 SF |
Kitchen (including walk-in coolers and freezer, lockers,
cooking and dish wash areas, and servings counter) |
1,200 SF |
| Lobby |
200 SF |
| Library (seating for 12) |
200 SF |
| Classroom (seating for 24) |
600 SF |
| Office including two desks, store room and cot room |
300 SF |
| Boys toilet room |
250 SF |
| Girls toilet room |
250 SF |
| Staff unisex toilet room |
50 SF |
| Janitor |
50 SF |
| Subtotal |
5,600 SF |
| Boys Bunk House |
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Dormitory for 12 boys (four boys in each of 3 rooms)
Toilet and wash facilities (3 toilets, 3 showers, 3 sinks, one washer) |
1,200 SF |
| Dorm parent apartment (bedroom, bath, sitting room) |
400 SF |
| Subtotal |
1,600 SF |
| Girls Bunk House |
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Dormitory for 12 girls (four girls in each of 3 rooms)
Toilet and wash facilities (3 toilets, 3 showers, 3 sinks, one washer) |
1,200 SF |
| Dorm parent apartment (bedroom, bath, sitting room) |
400 SF |
| Subtotal |
1,600 SF |
| Dorm Cottages (2 bedrooms, bath room and sitting room; 4 at 500) |
2,000 SF |
| Land School Director’s House (3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths) |
1,800 SF |
| Farm Manager’s House (3 bedrooms, 2 baths) |
1,800 SF |
| Subtotal |
5,600 SF |
| Net Building Area |
14,400 SF |
| Circulation, Building Systems, Porches, etc. (33% of the Net) |
4,800 SF |
| Gross Building Area |
19,200 SF |
| Site Program Site Buildings |
3,300 SF |
| Total Building Area |
22,500 SF |
NOTE: For additional information, go to Google Earth and access the site at:
45° - 43’ – 42” N
92° - 04’ – 36” W
1094’ to 1167’ elevation above sea level
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