Main entry welcome

Main entry welcome
Quiet learning spaces

Quiet learning spaces
Piquing the student imagination

Piquing the student imagination
High energy learning commons cafeteria

High energy learning commons cafeteria
Structure and space light bath

Structure and space light bath
Collaboration destination

Collaboration destination
Entry pride

Entry pride
Teaching offices - seeing and being seen

Teaching offices - seeing and being seen
Reaching out to the community

Reaching out to the community
Music made visible

Music made visible
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Sample Description

Facility designed to inspire young minds for generations to come

Fuller Middle School

The City of Framingham, Framingham, MA

Fuller Middle School provides students the flexible, expansive space to build upon the preparatory STEAM education pedagogies Framingham students experience in elementary school. A three-story Learning Commons, paired classroom suites with shared teacher planning offices to promote team teaching, and flexible indoor and outdoor gathering areas bring together the entire academic community, showcasing project-based learning and inspiring creativity and collaboration. Forwarding the broader community’s goal of creating a new civic focus for South Framingham, the building is set back beyond a sloped outdoor amphitheater with a performance shell, serving as a gathering lawn for students and venue for town-wide events and performances.

  • Grades 6-8
  • 137,000sf
  • Completion Date: September 2021
  • 420-seat auditorium
  • anticipated LEED Silver Certified

 

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Recognition

  • 2023 Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Award Honorable Mention
  • 2023 AIA Central Massachusetts Honor Award
  • 2022 Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Award Honorable Mention
  • Global Architecture & Design Awards 2022 Rethinking The Future Second Award
  • Brick In Architecture Award 2021 Gold

Flexible & Expansive Spaces

1st floor plan
1st floor plan
2nd floor plan
2nd floor plan
3rd floor plan
3rd floor plan
Combinable classroom suite with shared teacher office
Combinable classroom suite with shared teacher office
Warm palette with humanizing variations in material and scale
Warm palette with humanizing variations in material and scale
School embraced by landscape and pavilion
School embraced by landscape and pavilion
Daylit classroom with ‘Panoptic’ teaching corner
Daylit classroom with ‘Panoptic’ teaching corner
Simple materials used in unusual ways
Simple materials used in unusual ways
A sense of calm with well organized structure and mechanicals
A sense of calm with well organized structure and mechanicals
Lofty media center for lofty thinking
Lofty media center for lofty thinking
Maker space with flexible infrastructure
Maker space with flexible infrastructure