Morningstar Learning Center

Challenge: Can we expand a bustling daycare in the mountains of Montana on a strict budget with poor soils? Can we also create some beautiful visualization images to raise money and awareness for the project?

Challenge accepted. We were able to take some rough client sketches and design a preliminary building idea with renderings that helped Morningstar Learning Center reach their fundraising goals. After the funding was acquired, we worked with Morningstar Learning Center to make the most of their budget, planning spaces to delight the children. The project took on a new level of complexity when the soil reports came in and it was necessary to build within ten feet of the existing structure. This is an example of form following function. We sculpted a muscular roof that sheds 400 inches of snow a year away from the entries, and away from the children, protecting all who enter.

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