When ARO began designing a new building for the Riverdale Country School’s third through fifth graders, to be located on the site of the existing elementary school, it faced a familiar challenge: where would they house students and teachers during the year-and-a-half construction project?
Instead of the typical cluster of dreary modular classrooms crammed in a schoolyard or parking lot, ARO devised a playful solution for a corner of the private school’s lush campus overlooking the Hudson River in The Bronx, New York. The architects mapped out 13 trailers: three classrooms for each grade, plus restrooms and two shared creative spaces. While the units themselves are standard trailer-like structures—prefabricated off-site by Williams Scotsman—the architects configured them to form their own mini-campus, collaborating with the Rockwell Group and Open to determine a site plan that would establish insularity while maintaining access to nearby facilities. The school gave the site its own name: the Learning Complex.
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