Goddard School – Winston Salem
An exterior facade precedent for suburban educational facilities featuring single-story stucco massing and a distinct gabled entrance canopy.
- What we like about this project
- The central wooden-toned soffit under the entry gable contrasts warmly against the white stucco facade.
Materials
- stucco
- asphalt-shingle
- glass
- metal
- wood-panel
Visual identifiers
- gabled-portico
- stucco-walls
- asphalt-shingle-roof
- commercial-entry
Style tags
- contemporary
- suburban
- institutional
Visual tags
- suburban
- educational
- single-story
- commercial-exterior
- accessible-entrance
- Geometry
- Low-slung, single-story horizontal massing with a prominent central gabled portico projection breaking the roofline.
- Facade system
- White smooth stucco wall finish with punched rectangular windows and dark trim.
- Structural guess
- Wood-frame or light-gauge steel construction with a conventional truss roof.
- Spatial scale
- Single-story human scale, appropriate for a children's educational facility.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight under a partly cloudy sky, casting soft shadows across the parking area and building facade.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, orderly, and approachable daylight institutional aesthetic.
- Environmental context
- Suburban commercial or institutional setting with a paved parking lot in the foreground and sparse trees along the perimeter.
- Spatial experience
- Approached across a front parking lot and crosswalk, with a sheltered central drop-off entrance welcoming visitors.
- Composition rhythm
- Symmetrical central focus with repeating punched window units along the horizontal wings.
- Style reading
- Contemporary suburban institutional architecture
- Program
- Early childhood educational center or preschool
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- stucco, asphalt-shingle, glass, metal, wood-panel
- Visual identifiers
- gabled-portico, stucco-walls, asphalt-shingle-roof, commercial-entry
- Style tags
- contemporary, suburban, institutional
- Visual tags
- suburban, educational, single-story, commercial-exterior, accessible-entrance
- Geometry
- Low-slung, single-story horizontal massing with a prominent central gabled portico projection breaking the roofline.
- Facade system
- White smooth stucco wall finish with punched rectangular windows and dark trim.
- Structural guess
- Wood-frame or light-gauge steel construction with a conventional truss roof.
- Spatial scale
- Single-story human scale, appropriate for a children's educational facility.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight under a partly cloudy sky, casting soft shadows across the parking area and building facade.
- Atmosphere
- Clean, orderly, and approachable daylight institutional aesthetic.
- Environmental context
- Suburban commercial or institutional setting with a paved parking lot in the foreground and sparse trees along the perimeter.
- Spatial experience
- Approached across a front parking lot and crosswalk, with a sheltered central drop-off entrance welcoming visitors.
- Composition rhythm
- Symmetrical central focus with repeating punched window units along the horizontal wings.
- Style reading
- Contemporary suburban institutional architecture
- Program
- Early childhood educational center or preschool
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture