The Ring Factory Elementary School is a 59,000 SF facility in Harford County. The school was designed as a series of pods to reduce the large scale of the facility so that its scale would relate better to the surrounding residential neighborhood. The site is graded and landscaped with the building elevation set substantially below the site entrance of Route 24, to further reduce the impact of its mass. The school has a total of 24 classrooms grouped in three pods of eight classrooms each. The pods are connected to a common node around which are grouped the media center, art room, computer lab, and special classroom. A corridor extends from the node to the lobby and is flanked by the administrative offices and rooms for specialists. The cafeteria and gymnasium are located off the lobby and are designed to be easily closed off from the rest of the school for after school functions. The school design was selected by the American Association of School Administrators for an exhibition of recent school design and has received several craftsmanship awards for the exterior and interior brickwork.

Entrance

View of Facility

View of Pods