Dr. Phinnize J. Fisher Middle School

Greenville, SC
McMillan Pazdan Smith Architecture

A collaborative team of key community stakeholders created a STEAM Curriculum around Project Based Learning, then designed and built a facility that fully supports the new pedagogy – the first STEAM-based middle school
in the state, and one of the first in the nation. The design team went to great lengths to ensure that the facility itself would educate students as a living part of the curriculum. Daylighting and high-efficiency LED fixtures were used throughout. Furniture and material finishes were selected with maximum flexibility in mind, allowing teachers and students to reconfigure the arrangement as needed, with little time lost.