Strada was engaged to renovate an existing, multi-tenant office building in Mt. Pocono, PA, into an office for a Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School. This facility serves as office space for teachers teaching virtual classes, as well as training and testing facilities for teachers and students on occasion. While daily use is primarily by teachers and administrators, this facility sometimes opens their space to the surrounding community for events, or to hold meetings between teachers, students, and parents. As such, the outward appearance and public-facing design is very important to the institution, and this existing building needed a lot of love.

As project architect, I created the designs shown and presented to the client to show them how the building could become much brighter and act as landmark in the community. I further worked with the project team to create a much-needed connection between parking-facing entry and the main level, adding a new communicating stair. Additional exterior and landscape improvements were made to create an entry sequence and make space for staff to enjoy the landscape of the Poconos.