The Rockaway College Concept Paper: Addendum-Design Interior Spaces

Interior Spaces is the last Concept paper section. 

Interior Spaces:

Rockaway College as outlined is constituted in two major units:  Rockaway College School and Rockaway College.  Rockaway College School offers two programs:  an early childhood program in the Pre-School/Kindergarten, and a primary education program in the Elementary School.  Rockaway College offers three programs:  an outdoor adventure secondary education intake for secondary education in The Venture School, a secondary education program in The Lower School and an early college in The Upper School.  Rockaway College School and Rockaway College require their own separate school spaces marking a distinction between each unit.  Nevertheless, this paper intends for both units to co-locate on the same property, whether that is within a single commercial building or on a single or multi-building campus.

The Pre-School/Kindergarten and The Primary School would be divided into three self-contained program spaces.  However, both programs will share office space and a common space appropriate for General School Community meetings and assemblies. 

The outdoor adventure intake program of The Venture School will run two “Crews” each occupying their own program “Crew Bay”.  The Lower School secondary education program establishes six Cooperative Learning Labs with Science History, Letters, Foreign Language Arts and Performance occupying single spaces and Art occupying five separate spaces for General Purpose, Sculpting, Visual Arts, Music and Multimedia.   The Upper School will share the Arts and Performance spaces with The Lower School and will occupy classrooms organized into seminar spaces.  The three Schools of Rockaway College will share office, storage and lavatory space.

The institution in its whole will share a Library and a Commons. The Commons will be used for Rockaway College General School Community and General College Community meetings until such time as a performing arts center can be constructed where these Community meetings would then take place. 

Listed below are “ball park” estimates of interior space requirements. Institutionally shared performance arts center and athletics facilities are not included in this estimate as they are spaces separate from the core mission of the school and thus represent budget categories of special attention on which to be focused after the core mission is being well served.

Rockaway College School

    Pre-School/Kindergarten and Elementary class space-three self-contained spaces @

    2,000 sq. ft per space = 6,000 sq. ft.

    Office/Conference Rooms:  6 @ 250 sq. ft.  = 1,5000 sq. ft.

    Faculty Room-1 @ 750 sq. ft. = 750 sq. ft.

    Common Space-1 @ 2,000 sq. ft. = 2,000 sq. ft. 

    Storage and General Use Lavatories = 1,000 sq. ft.

    Total:  at least approximately 11,250 sq. ft.

Rockaway College:

    Venture School:

    Venture Crew Bays-2 @ 2,000 sq. ft. =  4,000 sq. ft.

    The Lower School:

    Science Cooperative Learning Group Lab:  2,000 sq. ft.

    History Cooperative Learning Group Lab:  1,000 sq. ft.

    Letters Cooperative Learning Group Lab:  1,000 sq. ft.

    Arts Cooperative Learning Group Labs:

       General Purpose:  1,000 sq. ft.

       Sculpting:  1,000 sq. ft.

       Visual Arts:  1,000 sq. ft.

        Multimedia: 1,000 sq. ft.

        Music: 2,000 sq. ft.

    Performance Cooperative Group Lab:  2,000 sq. ft.

    Foreign Language Cooperative Group Lab:  1,000 sq. ft.

    Upper School:

    Seminar Rooms-16 @ 400 sq. ft. =  6,400 sq. ft.

    Faculty Space-1 @ 1,000 sq. ft. = 1,000 sq. ft.

     Shared:

     Commons:  3,000 sq. ft.

     Office Rooms-10 @ 250 sq. ft. = 2, 500 sq. ft.

     Storage/Lavatories:  3,000 sq. ft.                        

                                                                                  

     Total: at least approximately 33, 000 sq. ft.

Combined total of at least approximately 44,200 sq. ft.