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Original Kimball Elementary School building at right, with the new entrance in the center and addition at left. Photo © Anne Chan

Original Kimball Elementary School building at left, with the new entrance at right. Photo © Anne Chan

partnership with Foodprints, a non-profit that integrates and a cooking classroom also has easy access to the courtyard
gardening, cooking, and nutrition with the goal to improve the gardening activity. At the second level a spacious roof terrace
health of students and their families. The Hord Coplan Macht offers another prospect over the courtyard.
landscape team designed the courtyard that includes an outdoor With the central courtyard establishing the sense of refuge
classroom as well as a teaching wall to facilitate instruction and that the school community sought, the Hord Coplan Macht team
amphitheater seating. addressed the security concerns for children coming to and
Single-loaded corridors surrounding the courtyard bring from school. A glass hyphen connects the historic building to
light to all three levels of the interior, and oversized windows the new addition and provides a double-sided entry. The school
offer views into the courtyard. A large glass wall opens from can still be accessed from Minnesota Avenue and thus retains
the ground-floor interior common space into the courtyard a civic presence on the heavily traveled street, but the primary

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