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Design teams pitch two concepts for new Dwight School; committee presses on septic, schedule and resilient materials
Summary
Architect teams presented two main schemes for a proposed combined Dwight elementary school and early‑childhood center — a hillside, terraced scheme and a plateau, single‑story option — and addressed site constraints including wetlands, a failing septic field and tight construction phasing. Committee members asked detailed questions about demolition sequencing, state energy code timing and insulated concrete forms (ICF).
Fairfield’s building committee heard competing design concepts on Tuesday for replacing the aging Dwight School and adding an early‑childhood center, as teams laid out two distinct ways to place a roughly 80,000‑square‑foot school on a site with steep grades, wetlands and an on‑site septic system.
“We do know now as a result of the feasibility study that this will be a combined elementary school and 5 section ECC. So that means the building will be about 80,000 square feet,” said Marissa Mead, the project manager for the presenting design team, as she reviewed the feasibility findings and basic program assumptions.
The presenters sketched two schematic approaches: a hillside scheme that embeds a multi‑level building into the grade to create at‑grade egress and terraced parking, and a plateau scheme that places a mostly single‑story building on the flatter portion of the property to maximize contiguous play and athletic fields. Both approaches…
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