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Apr 22
2011
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Preservation is Elementary in HurricanePosted by susan in school , saved , rehabilitation , Recent Past , issues , Hurricane , documentation , adaptive use |
Robert Gardner designed an innovative new elementary school for Hurricane, Utah in 1954 (left). Washington County School District closed the building in 2009 and moved Hurricane Elementary into a new facility.
Hmm, what to do with an old school building in the heart of town next to a museum and an art center all surrounded by park-like grounds with mature trees. The City of Hurricane bought the building intending to demolish it for a new community center, but some people had a better idea, and the city agreed.
Interns from the Rhode Island School of Design working for architect Peter Stempel’s non-profit FormTomorrow made as-built drawings of the school during the summer of 2010. They also prepared a site master plan showing how the Hurricane Elementary School building could be reused as part of the community center complex (orange figure center right in the illustration below, image courtesy FormTomorrow).
