Careful consideration of the Innovation Lab’s siting, program relationships, and materials result in a flexible, lasting facility that will benefit the School for several generations. The School desired a new facility that would improve campus connectivity while establishing a 21st Century identity for the school. The building knits carefully into the campus, framing outdoor play areas to the north and providing an anchor to the village of buildings along the west edge of the site. The dynamic structure creates spatial connections with the School’s existing facilities to the east and establishes several outdoor teaching environments along its southern edge. The exterior skin of copper - 8” vertical wall panels with 16” standing seam roof panels – provides a long lasting, low maintenance envelope for the timeless building. The School required a building that could house their specialty programs, including robotics, makerspaces, and science curriculum. The Innovation Lab provides open, flexible spaces that can be used by multiple grade levels simultaneously. The classrooms and project labs are organized along a single, generous corridor, which branches into large shared teaching spaces. The building provides a rich learning environment, filled with natural daylight and lined with undulating wood walls and cypress plank ceilings, for students to experiment and explore through the School’s project based learning curriculum.