Charter School of the Dunes

Gary, IN, United States

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Charter School of the Dunes

Gary, IN, United States

Firm

Public Design Architects LLC

Type

Educational › Elementary School High School

YEAR

2013

SIZE

25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft

BUDGET

$5M - 10M

PDA was the Design Architect for this new home for an existing charter school in Gary, an expansion from elementary to a full K-12 program. Built on a sandy duneland site adjacent to a deeded wetland, the LEED Gold-designed school has a full-time environmental sciences teacher and embraces an exterior teaching courtyard, safe from violence and the truck route it fronts in this post-industrial community. We assembled three main volumes in a pre-engineered building system, 62,000 SF total, to meet the demands of cost, low soils capacity, and time - less than $150/sf, no masonry on the entire job, and one year from start to open.