Global Citizenship Experience Lab School

Design Education Towards a Sustainable Future

The Global Citizenship Experience Lab School (GCE) is an outside-thinking, real-world immersive, non-profit independent high school. Led by Farr Associates, the collaborative design team was driven by the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.

GCE’s new home features a retrofit interior buildout with non-traditional flexible classrooms, diverse learning spaces, and their mission-embodying central gathering space to be used for engaging all citizens: a place for discourse and display of student-driven research and reflection.

Client: Global Citizenship Experience Lab School

Location: Chicago, IL

Role: Architect of Record

Project Area: 16,000 sf

Project Completed: 2022

Construction Cost: $3,000,000

  • Civic Projects: Collaborating Architect

    Architecture is FUN: Collaborating Architect

    Sherman Mechanical: Mechanical/Plumbing Engineer

    Pace Electric/Brookman Group: Electrical Engineer

    Kai Brown: Photography