Macadam High School Needs More Space - as a result, The Freeland Board of Education and the Freeland Museum of Architecture are holding an open competition for the design of a bigger school on the same property. The residents, faculty and especially students are also looking for something a little more hip than the existing structure designed by Standard Parts Incorporated back in 1981. So anything goes - with one exception: the original 1897 brick schoolhouse on the northern edge of the site, must remain and be incorporated into the overall design scheme as it is historically protected [it is and will be the school library] All other structures are expendable, although may be simply renovated and/or added to. The parking lot will move across the street so there is plenty of space available for the specific programmatic needs which follow:
> a more spacious main entrance > 24 classrooms [there are 12 now] > a gymnasium [there is none now] > outdoor campus-like space[s] [quite lame now] > artistic intangibles*
*the winning design will be entered into a city-wide FMoA Design Competition this winter, so artistic intangibles are those little extra creative things we didn't ask for that might catch the eye of a prospective judge.
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