NORTH ATLANTA HIGH SCHOOL

The North Atlanta High School is designed to accommo-date 2,350 students in what previously had been a 56-acre IBM Corporate Campus. The adaptive re-use design includes an 11-story concrete-framed office tower that spans over a scenic lake, an assembly building, and a 942-car parking deck. In order to maintain the site’s beautiful, dramatic terrain, the existing, on-grade parking lots were converted into athletic venues for baseball, softball, football, tennis and track.

An additional assembly building constructed adjacent to the tower includes large, highvolume spaces with special acoustic needs and accommodates a 600-seat auditorium, a 150-seat black box theater, music rooms and a 2,100-seat competition gymnasium with practice gym. A ‘Main Street’ design approach was used to connect the two main buildings and parking facility.

AWARDS:• The Council of Educational Facility Planners Interna-

tional (CEFPI) Georgia, Chapter, Best in Renovation Design Award—North Atlanta High School, Atlanta, Georgia

• Urban Land Institute Atlanta Awards for Excellence—North Atlanta High School, Atlanta, Georgia

• American Council of Engineering Companies of Georgia (ACEC Georgia), 2015

• Engineering Excellence Award, Grand Prize—North Atlanta High School, Atlanta, Georgia

• ENR Southeast, Best K-12 Project Award, 2014—North Atlanta High School, Atlanta, Georgia

• CMAA South Atlantic Chapter Project Achievement Awards, First Place New Construction, Less than $100M—North Atlanta High School, Atlanta, Georgia

• American Concrete Institute, Outstanding Achievement Award—North Atlanta High School, Atlanta, Georgia

NORTH ATLANTA HIGH SCHOOL

Atlanta, Georgia

Connecting people to place

Cooper CarryConnecting people to place

Focused on the innovative design of exceptional spaces and places, Cooper Carry is one of the nation’s most dynamic, context-driven design firms. Our projects are crafted to enrich the experience of the people who interact with them for a day or a lifetime.

An internationally recognized team of design professionals, with vast experience in a variety of project types, collaborate in the pursuit of excellence through the practice of connective design. Since our founding in 1960, we have steadily built a reputation for our attention to detail, thoughtful design and client service. Each project is a composition of imaginative connections amongst buildings and their components. But it doesn’t stop there as we strive to incorporate our projects’ interaction with surrounding buildings, communities and the environment . . . all of which are impacted by the other. Connecting people to place is the cornerstone of our design philosophy and it is that connectivity which anchors our architectural, planning and urban design approach. As an example, our design process treats landscape with equal in importance to buildings and we pursue excellence in landscape design just as carefully as we do the design of the building itself. The net result then is that we combine architecture and landscape design into a rich composition of functional, thoroughly connected spaces, formed to enhance and join the experience of the inhabitant, thus celebrating not only the interior, but exterior environment as well.

Almost since our founding, sustainability has served as the foundation of our connective design philosophy. The result is that our team is inspired by the interconnections amongst natural systems which support our lives—plants, animals and the physical world they inhabit. Consequently, we collaboratively pursue creative design solutions using nature as our model with the result being a more holistic project.

The connective design process simply assesses the sustainability of materials, the suitability of assembly methods, and the options for organizing buildings and landscapes into com-positions which tend to maximize the advantages of solar orientation, weather, natural light, building conditioning, and other variables which affect the building’s environmental perfor-mance. In essence, we seek ways to optimize the human experience, thereby elevating the quality of life for all who come to live, work or play within the spaces and places we design.

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