KIPP Antioch College Prep Middle School
KIPP Antioch College Prep Middle is the second school to be built on a site master-planned by MZA with Barge Cauthen. With more than 48,000 SF over three stories, the building provides an engaging educational environment with light filled gathering spaces for approximately 500 fifth through eighth graders.
Early in the master planning process for the campus, the design team identified a theme that would guide the dialogue between the two facilities for which the campus was planned: KIPP Antioch Elementary “The Barn” would explore forms familiar to agricultural buildings. This project, KIPP Antioch Middle “The Boat” would focus on the uplifting and freeing sensation that, like a seafaring vessel, an exceptional educational can provide.
Understood as a sister facility to the elementary school designed by the MZA lead design team, a similar material pallet was utilized. Bold and decisive pops of color act as a counterpoint to the understated, monochromatic field composing the majority of the building skin. South and West facing building elements are choreographed to accentuate the play of light throughout the day. Informal gathering spaces interconnect and provide access to daylight in unexpected ways. The light filled café is also a multiuse space that doubles as pre-function and lobby for the gymnasium.
A new soccer field is located at the heart of the campus with the elementary and middle schools anchoring the North and South entrances.
2021 AIA Middle Tennessee Design Award, Citation
- Location: Nashville, TN
- Year: 2021