St. Albans School Marriott Hall in Washington, DC, United States

March 07, 2011 Category: Education, Public Buildings

Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, St. Albans School Marriott Hall is located in Washington, DC, United States. The new building itself, known as Marriott Hall, is a three-storey modernist structure that also carefully establishes a familial relationship to the neo-Gothic architecture of the existing campus. Terraced walkways provide places for students to gather and interact on campus, an important part of the institution’s educational philosophy. .

Classrooms are clad in floor-to-ceiling glass. The architects carefully controlled the daylight in the interior by installing a light shelf eight feet up the glass wall. Below that point, the glass has a ceramic frit at 30 percent density; above, the glass is clear. This mitigates glare and heat gain, while allowing full sunlight to bounce off the shelf and turn the ceiling into an indirect reflector.

St, Albans School Marriott Hall design by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP