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Kearny Board of Education
Franklin School Multi-Purpose Room

The Kearny Board of Education’s 1960’s Franklin School is a sprawling structure with four levels that steps down a 30 ft hillside with interesting geometries and forms, but with no intermediate connection between its north and south wings.

Design Challenges

  • Resolve the school’s complicated geometry
  • Improve circulation in a large sprawling school
  • Provide barrier free access with a 5 ft change in grade
  • Set the building within a 30 ft sloping hillside

Design Approach

  • Complement existing geometries and vocabulary to create interesting forms and spaces
  • Set the addition into the hillside to reduce its mass
  • Create North and South Halls as organizing elements which connect the distant parts of the school
  • Use a curved rood structure with a clerestory to make the space interesting, light and airy
  • Use a lively color palette and a variety of textures to accentuate the architecture
On August 4, 2020
by Karen Psolka
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