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Designing a Healthy School Environment in a Rural Setting: Case Study

VMDO Architects, 2013. The new carter G. woodson center education complex located in Buckingham county, in central, rural Virginia, has been designed and renovated as a modern learning campus for K–5 students with the intent to promote connectivity, creativity, physical activity, health and well-being for students and for the Buckingham county district community. The design for the school renovation was developed using novel theory-based guidelines created collaboratively by the design team and health research teams from the university of Nebraska and the university of Virginia. the project involved renovating two former schools built in 1954 and 1962, and connecting them through newly built structures to form one new school. the architectural firm VMDO oversaw and supported the designs for architecture, interior spaces, graphics and wayfinding, and landscaping.

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