Maury Elementary School - Washington, DC

The newly-renovated Maury Elementary School is open. DLR Group’s design offers 21st-century educational spaces to enhance learning and, has a beautiful Swisspearl fiber cement rainscreen facade.  Black and white fiber cement panels allow this building to be timeless. Located in Washington D.C.’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, Maury Elementary School was originally constructed in 1886. DLR Group’s design complements the surrounding historical residential architecture style while also offering a modernized, state-of-the-art learning environment. A glass-edged discovery commons seamlessly connects historic and new components of the school, celebrating the original iconic historic cornerstone building and amplifying transparency and indoor-outdoor connections. ECO Cladding VZ.10 subframing addressed the community's desire for an environmentally focused, thermally broken attachment system.

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