Satellite Shelters & Perkins+Will Offer Green Modular Classrooms
Perkins+Will, an international architecture and design firm, has chosen Satellite Shelters, Inc. to be the Midwest’s premier provider for their new, high-quality modular classrooms, Sprout Space™.
Sprout Space is a healthy, sustainable, and flexible modular classroom. Designed by the experts at Perkins+Will, it is fast to install and is completely customizable as either a permanent or temporary, fully modular classroom.
Perkins+Will was one of the first companies to commit to the 2030 Challenge and has pledged that all of their projects will be designed for carbon neutrality by the year 2030. Sprout Space is their answer to the rising concern of healthy learning environments at schools across the nation and Satellite is honored to be chosen as the Midwest’s sole provider.
Sprout Space is a high-performance modular classroom and the modular category winner of the Open Architecture Challenge: Design the Classroom of the Future by Architecture for Humanity and the Open Architecture Network.
Schools are currently facing a lot of challenges, including budgetary shortages, the need for upgraded facilities, and classroom size unpredictability. While the basic requirements for a classroom include inspired teachers, engaged students, and a productive learning environment, Sprout Space offers an alternative to enhance the learning process for students and teachers.
Sprout Space is the first high-performance modular classroom designed by school design experts. It incorporates many unique features, including:
Healthy Learning Environments
Sprout Space was designed with children’s health and learning styles in mind. It is built from low-emitting materials and these classrooms meet the highest indoor air quality standards. A healthy learning environment means fewer sick days for students and teachers, higher test scores, and happier students.
Flexible Learning Environments
Sprout Space is well-suited for various teaching styles, seating configurations, and outdoor learning opportunities. Each classroom opens up to the outdoors through large bi-fold doors, encouraging experimental learning and complementing a variety of teaching methods.
Sustainable Learning Environments
The Sprout Space design incorporates ample natural daylight which has been proven to increase test scores and retention rates with the added benefit of significant utility usage savings. Numerous design features such as the integrated rainwater collection, overhanging eaves, and sustainable materials make Sprout Space an excellent example of passive and active green building strategies. The materials that are used include FSC-certified wood, high-reflective roofing, and bio-based insulation and flooring.
The Sprout Space classroom is completely modular. Classrooms are pre-engineered and built in a factory, then delivered to your site. Constructing the buildings in a factory setting allows for a controlled environment, which has many advantages over constructing the building outdoors, including reducing construction cost, time, and waste, a longer building life-cycle, and the elimination of mold growth during the construction phase.
About Satellite Shelters, Inc.
Satellite Shelters, Inc. is a national provider of Mobile Offices, Modular Buildings, Portable Classrooms, Storage Containers, Ground-Level Offices, and the new Sprout Space Green Modular Classrooms. To learn more about Sprout Space and other green school opportunities, please see our Portable Classrooms page.
About Perkins+Will
Established in 1935, Perkins+Will is an integrated design firm serving clients from twenty-three offices around the world. The firm practices architecture, interiors, branded environments, planning + strategies and urban design for client in the aviation + transit, corporate + commercial + civic, healthcare, higher education, K-12 education, and science + technology markets. Perkins+Will routinely ranks among the world’s top design firms and has received hundreds of awards, including the prestigious American Institute of Architects’ “Firm of the Year Award.” With more LEED® Accredited Professionals than any firm in North America, Perkins+Will is recognized as the preeminent sustainable design firm in the country and recently rated the #1 Green Design firm in the country by Building Design + Construction Magazine. Perkins+Will was the first multi-office company to commit to the 2030 Challenge, in which the firm has pledged that all of their projects will be designed for carbon neutrality by the year 2030.