St. Coletta of Greater WashingtonAlexandria, Virginia

  • Located on the corner of Independence Avenue and 19th Street in Southeast Washington
  • Contains 100,000 sf and is designed to provide a national model for community-based special education services
  • Provides space for Family Outreach and Community Intervention programs, and features meeting rooms, a full-court gymnasium, and village green areas
  • The main structure is a three-story cylindrical spine that runs the length of the site, and connects the project’s disparate services together
  • The gymnasium building utilizes a barrel vaulted roof structure
  • Meeting areas are contained under gabled roofs and skylights punctuate common areas, creating an architectural vocabulary for reading the building’s design
  • Awards:
    Mid Atlantic Construction – Eastern Seaboard Region’s 50 Most Important and Innovative New Construction and/or Renovation Honoree 2007
    Washington Building Congress – Craftsmanship Awards 2006