Abstract
The new Charles R. Drew Charter School in the East Lake community of Atlanta, GA, slated to open in August 2001, is a privately managed public school focusing on mathematics and reading for grades K–8. In addition to several classrooms, music rooms, laboratories, offices, and a cafetorium, the project includes a media center and reading area which share a common volume with the school’s main entrance lobby. Primary concerns in the design included providing adequate sound isolation for the various spaces within this common volume, ensuring suitably low background noise levels from the HVAC system, and providing high levels of speech intelligibility in the reading area. Designing to these goals while keeping the various areas all within the same space posed unique challenges to the design team. An iterative and collaborative design effort, which included computer modeling, was used to provide a final design which achieved a successful compromise among the various requirements.
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