If it weren’t for the pint-size stature of its third, fourth, and fifth grade occupants—and the telltale sounds of recess—one would think the new classroom building at the Riverdale Country School in the Bronx, New York, was the custom headquarters of a startup. Like a startup, the new Upper Learning Building by the New York–based firm Architecture Research Office (ARO) was designed with an entrepreneurial spirit, each detail meant to incubate ideas and foster innovative teaching and learning, with spaces scaled to the comfort and optimum productivity of its inhabitants.
Located on the progressive private school’s lower-school River Campus, which is nestled between the Hudson River and the 28-acre public garden called Wave Hill, ARO’s new structure for Riverdale’s older elementary school students is a low-slung, two-story rectangular volume that hugs a hill on both its eastern and northern elevations.
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