A restrained palette broadcasts the optimism of the Girl Scouts.
View MoreLessCamp Prairie Schooner sits high on the bluffs of the Little Blue River, and with 176 wooded acres, the camp feels like wilderness in the heart of Kansas City. In addition to numerous constructed activities, creeks, hills, and a nature trail surround the site. The project encompasses a highly cost-effective and year-round trail center and troop house, bunk rooms, flex rooms, full kitchens, modern restrooms and a shower facility. The design solution links two volumes through a shared mechanical room that efficiently serves both volumes. Standard, off-the-rack scissor trusses give the roof iconic form and inexpensive painted corrugated metal provides the skin. Vibrant endwalls provide way-finding for campers and identify individual troops.
- 2012
- Architect
- Kansas City, MO
- 4,430 SF
Client
- Girl Scouts of NE Kansas and NW Missouri
Eldo Team
- David Dowell
- Doug Stockman
- Sean Slattery
- Brandon Froelich
- Lindsey Fisher
Collaborators
- Contractor: Haren & Laughlin Construction Company, Inc.
- Civil & Structural Engineer: Wallace Engineering
- MEP Engineer: PKMR
- Code Consultant: Code Consulting Services
- Landscape Architect : Confluence
Awards
- 2016 AIA National - Small Projects Award
- 2013 ARCHITECT Magazine Residential Architect Design Award (RADA) - Campus Housing Merit Award
- 2013 AZURE Magazine -AZ Award - Commercial Architecture Finalist
- 2013 The Chicago Athenaeum - American Architecture Award
- 2013 Kansas City Business Journal - Capstone Award, Architectural Design
- 2012 AIA Central States Region Design Awards - Honor Award
- 2012 AIA Kansas City Design Excellence Awards - Citation Award
- 2012 ARCHITECT Magazine Annual Design Review - Play Award
- 2012 Interior Design - Best of Year Award
- 2012 Kansas State University Kremer Prize for Outstanding Collaborative Design Achievement
Press
- Bustler, Justin Testado, “Nine Architects Win Big in the AIA 2016 Small Project Awards”, 2016
- Slate, Kristin Hohenadel, “This Year’s Best Small-Scale Architectural Projects Include a Floating Sauna and a Mobile Dentist Office”, 2016
- Contract Design, Will Speros, “AIA Announces Winners of 2016 Small Project”, 2016
- Architect Magazine, Deane Madsen, “AIA Announces 2016 Small Projects Awards”, 2016
- The Architect’s Newspaper, Matthew Messner, “el dorado wins AIA Small Projects Award for Girl Scouts project”, 2016
- Architizer.com, “Girl Scouts Camp Prairie Schooner”, 2014
- Residential Architect, Meghan Drueding, PDF, 2013
- Archdaily, Alison Furuto, “2012 AIA Central States Design Award Winners”, 2012
- ArchDaily, Jonathan Alarcon, “Camp Prairie Schooner / El Dorado Inc”, 2012
- Architect Magazine, Murrye Bernard, “2012 Annual Design Review, Play Category, Award: Trail Center at Camp Prairie Schooner”, 2013
- Dwell, Kelsey Keith, “Little Cabins on the Prairie”, 2012
- Interior Design, Nicholas Tamarin, “2012 Best of Year Awards: Projects”, 2012
- Kansas City Star, Steve Paul, PDF, 2012
- Omaha World Herald, PDF, 2012
- Dwell, William Lamb, “K.C. Cool: 7 Striking Designs in Kansas City, Missouri”, 2011
Photography
- Mike Sinclair
