Active Play for Elementary School Students

Viewlands Elementary Environmental Campus VIsion Plan | Seattle, WA

Our firm was hired by Viewlands Elementary School PTSA to undergo a visioning process for their recently re-opened school campus. Adjacent to Seattle’s Carkeek Park, Viewlands Elementary School’s location provides significant opportunity to enhance children’s education through observation and interaction with natural systems. Through a rigorous community design process we generated a final schematic master plan which expanded the existing play area, created a stronger connection between upper and lower play areas, proposed existing school portables become a ‘portable village’ though small scale design interventions, improved play areas for children with autism, and introduced student agriculture, natural play and environmental education elements.

COMMUNITY DESIGN

Through Pre-Design