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Main entrance to the Peterson Middle School
at the Flint Hill School.

All photos ©
Prakash Patel
Project: Peterson Middle School
at Flint Hill School,
10900 Oakton Road, Oakton, VA
Architect/Interior Architect: Bowie Gridley Architects
Landscape Architect: Brian J Stephenson + Co. LLC
Structural Engineer: McMullan & Associates, Inc.
MEP Engineer: Greenman-Pedersen, Inc.
Civil Engineer: VIKA
Acoustical Consultant: Acoustical Design Collaborative Ltd.
AV/IT/Data/Security Consultant: Convergent Technologies
Design Group, Inc.
Food Service Consultant: Tricon Food Service
Envelope Consultant: Gale Associates, Inc.
Owner’s Representative: Advanced Project Management
Renderer/Video Consultant: Illustrate My Design
Outdoor play area. General Contractor: Whiting-Turner Contracting Company

every department,” Robinson remembered, along environments to allow that curriculum to expand.
with small groups of students, parents, and other The new building was intentionally designed “to
school personnel. The middle-grade syllabus at Flint encourage students to explore, invent, and be creative,”
Hill already included interactive, discovery-based said Robinson.
classes like robotics and a makers lab, but students and Constructed of light-frame steel and glass, the
educators desired larger, more flexible, tech-friendly building is spacious and bright, with soaring double-

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