Calvary Christian School

Client: Calvary Christian School

Scope: New Construction

Size: 33,000 SF

Completion: In Progress

Project Architect: Richard Berliner, AIA, LEED AP, NCARB, ALEP

Berliner began work on a new maker building, lunch facility, and playground area at Calvary Christian School with a large visioning session to determine the needs of the school. Berliner worked with the school to maximize what we could program into the theater/multi-purpose building on the challenging hillside site. Berliner presented three initial concepts - a traditional option with a large theater and storage room, a more contemporary version that created indoor/outdoor spaces and connected to the hillside behind the building, and an option showing the maximum size the building would be allowed to be built at. Calvary Christian eventually chose to combine the first two options, keeping their campus architectural vocabulary but incorporating more indoor/outdoor spaces and a non-traditional tiered floorplan with many smaller spaces working their way up the hillside. The option allowed the school to get all the different types of spaces they needed in a smaller footprint.