Miami Country Day School

“The modernization of the Miami Country Day School campus began with a market and programming analysis to enable the historic, elite private school to remain on the cutting edge of the educational market. Miami Country Day School has a unique approach to education which distinguishes it from other learning institutions. The School is founded on the development of the “whole child” based on the six pillars of character. The process of developing a program and master plan recognized the impact that the school’s learning approach and core beliefs have on its curriculum and resulting facilities. The design team balanced this need to define a 21st Century educational facility program to satisfy the school’s learning mission while recognizing the desire for a sustainable design on a limited site and with fund raising challenges facing all private schools.
The master planning process generated a development vision for the campus to capture the unique learning community at this school. The new additions to the campus include a new Media Center and Center for Learning Resources, a new Center for the Arts, Performance Auditorium and parking garage, a new STEM Center, and expansion of the Athletic and Student Services Center. The new facilities are designed to create a new direction the School, focused on project-based learning and engaging all of the “six pillars” of a student’s development. Engaging students in collaborative environments for learning is core to their beliefs and to the developed curriculum.”