1. Fabyan Elementary School
2010 Exhibition of School Planning and Architecture
Fabyan Elementary School
Geneva, Illinois
New Construction
Project of Distinction
FGM Architects Inc.

2. Fabyan Elementary School
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3. Fabyan Elementary School
Main Site Diagram

4. IMAGE Alive After Hours Community Environment:
Architects designed the school not only for educational uses, but also to accommodate community functions. Shared use of the building is provided to the park district, scouting organizations and other organizations reducing the need for redundant facilities. The most commonly used community spaces (Administration, Cafeteria, Performance-area and Gymnasium) are located nearest to the front of the building to allow teacher and staff parking to double as event parking during non-school hours.

5. Lunchtime Views of the Prairie
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Community Environment: Continued…
Additionally, these spaces used for neighborhood functions are easily secured from the rest of the building to ensure educational areas go undisturbed. Noisy programs such as Gymnasium, Cafeteria and Music, are grouped with distinct separations from the quieter spaces such as classrooms and Media Center. The Cafeteria features views of the natural prairie, ultimately enhancing the lunchtime environment.

6. Team Teaching with Lots of Light
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Learning Environment:
Architects worked with community members and school officials to design a school that fulfills the needs of the District and the curriculum. The school was designed in response to the “neighborhood concept” and is arranged with educational spaces creating “academic houses.” To the north, grade-level classrooms are grouped along a student corridor mirroring a neighborhood’s residences along a street. Each grade’s “home” is equipped with individual classrooms, small group rooms, a “living room” commons area and an outdoor classroom “backyard.”

7. IMAGE Media Without Walls Learning Environment: Continued…
Widened entrances and large windows of the individual teaching areas lead to the adjoining commons “living room” space. Lockers are grouped at each “home’s” entrance off the “student street” which connects all spaces to the Media Center, Cafeteria and other shared areas. This family-gathering-like setting creates a comforting learning environment for students and faculty through interconnected rooms and spaces. The “home” atmosphere allows relationships to flourish between classmates and learning to extend beyond traditional classroom walls.

8. Art Loves Natural Light
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Physical Environment
Architects utilized various forms of brick to blend the school with its natural setting. The brick is continued throughout the inside of the school , ultimately enhancing the goal of blurring the line between the internal and external environment.
Expansive glass windows also connect the interior and exterior environments by providing views of the play grounds and fields and the natural open prairie and flood the rooms with natural light during sunny days. Playful windows on the second level frame interior views from the upper corridor and further allow natural light to penetrate the building.

9. IMAGE Passive Shading Physical Environment Continued…
Daylighting and sun control techniques were carefully planned into the school’s design. Windows facing southeast and southwest require deep overhangs and vertical fins for shading. In these shared spaces, windows, shades and glass block are used to strategically diffuse the hard light to reduce glare on computer screens and book-damaging light. The angled academic wings capture northern light in all team teaching commons areas.

10. Planning a Community School
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Planning Process:
Commissioned by the Geneva CUSD 304 to evaluate current school conditions, architects worked with community members and school officials to develop a district-wide master plan. Through this process, schools were carefully scrutinized to determine functionality and feasibility to maintain operation in anticipation of projected enrollment figures. An overwhelming theme arose relating to a community concern regarding new school construction. “Box” schools that had become the norm no longer met the expectations of parents, faculty and community members seeking an alternative to over-populated, “bussed-in” educational spaces. FGM listened to the community and designed the “neighborhood school.”

11. Planning a Community School
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Planning Process: Continued…
The architects held a series of Community Forums to gather information about what the community desired in the new school.
Subsequently, the needs of the District and the ideas of the Community Forum participants were incorporated into the design of the new school. The result was an elementary school that perfectly blended the students’ needs and community functionality.

12. Floor plan Insert large format floor plan
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13. Exhibition of School Planning and Architecture 2010 Project Data
Submitting Firm :
FGM Architects Inc.
Project Role
Architect of Record / Design Architect
Project Contact
Jim Woods, AIA, REFP, LEED AP
Title
Executive Vice President
Address
1211 West 22nd Street, Suite 705
City, State or Province, Country
Oak Brook, Illinois
Phone
Joint Partner Firm:
N/A
Project Role
Project Contact
Title
Address
City, State or Province, Country
Phone
Other Firm:
N/A
Project Role
Project Contact
Title
Address
City, State or Province, Country
Phone
Construction Firm:
Bovis Lend Lease, Inc.
Project Role
Construction Manager
Project Contact
Jeffrey Reimer
Title
Executive Vice President
Address
1 N. Wacker Drive, Suite 850
City, State or Province, Country
Chicago, Illinois 60606
Phone

14. Exhibition of School Planning and Architecture 2010 Project Details
Project Name
 Fabyan Elementary School
City
 Geneva
State
 Illinois
District Name
 Geneva Community Unit School District 304
Supt/President
 Dr. Kent Mutchler, Superintendent
Occupancy Date
 August 2009
Grades Housed
 K-5
Capacity(Students)
 600 Students
Site Size (acres)
 13 Acres
Gross Area (sq. ft.)
 104,000 SF
Per Occupant(pupil)
 $34,528.33
gross/net please indicate
 104,000 gsf / 66,000 nsf = 158%
Design and Build?
 No
If yes, Total Cost:
 N/A
Includes:
If no,
Site Development:
 $1,963,000
Building Construction:
 $20,717,000
Fixed Equipment:
 $1,580,556
Other:
Total:
 $24,260,556

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