Campus Overview

The Cary Academy campus is conceived as an academic village; a collection of buildings and spaces that support the educational objectives and provide security and harmony for its users. The organization and architecture give a sense of history and tradition. The main organizing feature of the school is the main quadrangle around which most of the upper school and shared use buildings are arranged. The main quad is the living room of the school, a place for school functions and casual interaction. The school is organized so that automobiles are on the perimeter with the main priority given over to people on foot. The middle school is separated to allow for appropriate age separation and to provide a transition into the upper school upon finishing middle school. The campus is designed with zones of use for academic, administration, athletic, and circulation. These zones do not have firm boundaries but rather flow into each other. As the campus evolves it will be important to reinforce the organizing integrity of the campus and to enhance the opportunities for additional uses. The campus can continue to develop places for social and educational uses, both structured and informal.

1. Grounds

1. Pavement
1. Drives and Roads: Bituminous surface course over compacted stone base course or broom finished concrete.
2. Curbs and Gutters: Broom finished Concrete.
3. Crosswalks: White painted lines on bituminous surface.
4. Pedestrian Walkways: Broom finished concrete with brick borders in Quad. Broom finished concrete for other primary walkways. Asphalt on stone base or shredded mulch over stone base in natural areas.
5. Parking Lots: Perimeter locations around central campus.
6. Handicap Ramps: Concrete surface with brick walls to match buildings with painted metal railings.
7. Guardrails: Painted metal to match existing in central campus. Galvanized chain-link in athletic areas.
2. Gates, Fences, Walls
1. Gates: Wrought Iron (or simulated wrought iron) decorative gates if located within 30’ of a public right-of-way.
2. Seat Walls: Pre-cast concrete seating on brick walls to match buildings.
3. Bollards: Decorative cast metal if located within 30’ of a public right-of-way, in or adjacent to the Quad, or near the front entrance of the academic buildings. Painted of galvanized steel if located in a service area or near athletics.
4. Gates: (No post and chains.) Tubular steel or aluminum with color to match railings in academic areas. Finish to be galvanized or ‘silver / gray’ in athletic areas.
5. Screen Wall: Brick to match buildings.
3. Site Equipment:
1. Benches: Teak (See attached description)
2. Picnic Tables: Teak (See attached description)
3. Trash Receptacles: painted metal to match railings, or galvanized if located in the athletics area.
4. Recycling Receptacles: To be determined when located.
5. Kiosks: To match Architecture.
6. Bike racks: Painted to match railings, or galvanized if located in the athletics area.
7. Plants and Pots: to be determined.
4. Lighting
1. Parking Lot
2. Quad
3. Walkways
4. Athletics
5. Planting
1. Planting Plan: To be submitted and approved by the Facilities Committee (FC).
2. Woodlands: Plantings shall not damage existing vegetation and must be approved by the Facilities Committee.
3. Lawn and Trees: To match existing, and to be selected from approved list.
4. Streetscape: To be approved by the FC and the Town of Cary.
5. Conceptual Development: To be approved by the FC.
6. Site Features: (All shall be designed and submitted to FC for review and approval.)
1. Entrances
2. Fountains
3. Sculpture

1. Architectural Guidelines
1. The buildings of Cary Academy are designed with the principles of classical architecture derived from the Roman architect Vitruvius and revived by the Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio. These influences were popular once again in pre-colonial and colonial America as practiced by architect, president and founding father, Thomas Jefferson. The classical orders of Doric, Ionic and Corinthian are employed at Cary Academy and help to reinforce a hierarchy to the buildings in their arrangement.
2. The guidelines are intended to clarify the design principles in the campus and provide guidance in making decisions for future building and renovation.
2. Kit of Parts
1. Main Entrances
1. Entrances are designed with glass reinforced concrete (GFRC) surrounds with classical detailing. The main entrance will have significant, prominent scale and detail appropriate to the building’s use and size. Wood doors with or without glass lites are employed for main entrance doors.
2. Where a large expanse of glass is desirable, a modern aluminum and insulated glass curtain wall system (bone white color) should be used. Aluminum entranceways consistent with the curtain wall system should be used for the doorways.
1. Secondary Entrances
2. Secondary entrances have small GFRC surrounds that help the entrances to be clearly visible and to create a scale in proportion with the building.
2. Windows
1. Most of the windows are arranged symmetrically on the building elevations. The window type is a true divided lite, double hung window with ½" insulated glass. The windows are constructed of wood and faced with a white plastic coating of PVC. In using this type of window it is important to achieve a proportional scale of the window relative to the wall area in which it occurs. The appropriate relationship can be determined through analysis of the existing buildings. Each window has a bullnosed cast concrete sill and a true masonry jack arch in the accent brick color.
2. In areas of an aluminum curtain wall system, windows may be added using the aluminum window system compatible with the curtain wall.
3. Cornices
1. Cornices are constructed of GFRC. The design will vary depending on the scale, detailing and height of the building. The cornices include a recessed gutter built of copper and single ply roofing material (EPDM). The concealed gutters empty into round copper downspouts which generally connect directly into the storm water system.
4. Roofs
1. Roofs are generally pitched, hip roof configurations with asphalt shingles. Roofs are pitched at a slope of 4 in 12. Flat roof areas when required are hidden with a parapet and cornice and are covered with a single ply roof system, (EPDM).
5. Building Corners
1. Building corners are articulated with brick quoins in the accent brick color. Quoins should match those existing on campus.
6. Materials
1. Brick: The primary brick employed on campus is Cushwa #40-140 Santa Fe. The brick is laid in a Flemish bond pattern. The masonry is pigmented and should match existing. The tooling of joints is to be a grapevine joint to match existing.
2. Glass. Glass in windows and curtain wall systems is clear, low-e, insulated glass.
3. Shingles are GAF Slateline, 17"x40" Asphalt shingles gray in color to match existing.
4. All Windows and Aluminum systems are bone white in color to match existing