Endeavour Elementary School

North Hanover Township, NJ

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North Hanover Township School District’s new Endeavour Elementary School is located on Joint Base MDL, educating 850 Pre-K though fourth grade students of military families who live and serve on Base. The 14-acre site is in the N.J. Pinelands Management Area. TDG provided design and construction services for three courtyards, a roof-top classroom, two playgrounds, fencing, and an overall landscape plan, including slope stabilization and pollinator meadows. 

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The design intent was to create a fun, educational, safe, and low-maintenance landscape, with an aesthetic reflecting and blending with the Pinelands environment through natural materials and colors to complement the facades. Three internal courtyards integrate stone boulders, wood seating, log benches, gravel stream beds, and soft woodland plants that blur the edges, extending and enhancing the function of interior classroom spaces. The large and small learning courtyards and rooftop science classroom incorporate multiple sizes and types of spaces for learning, exploration, creativity, and contemplation.