Assessment, planning, and design for remote 18-acre school campus and marine research facility.

Location

Eleuthera, The Bahamas

Year

2005

Services

Site Assessment
Master Planning
Resiliency Planning

The Island School and Cape Eleuthera Institute, a high school semester school and marine research center, respectively, share a campus on Eleuthera Island in The Bahamas. School programming is organized around a central question: how do we live well in a place?

The organization hired WSD to design a campus master plan including landscape, facilities, and systems that provided for the needs of the remote campus and could become part of the curriculum itself — the pedagogy of the school was nested in the land.

The campus master plan was comprehensive in scope and encompassed design for many projects ranging from:

• farm and food production via orchards, gardens, aquaculture, etc

• energy production via biodiesel, wind, and solar

• coastal stability projects including mangrove and coral restoration

• water filtration and storage

• gray and blackwater management

• building design including passive ventilation strategies for harsh subtropical island climate