Marin Country Day School Campus Plan

Marin Country Day School is a campus tucked between Ring Mountain and the Bay.

Life at MCDS is close to nature; the entire campus is located within its watershed. Students walk outside from building to building, and the school’s iconic image is a pair of colorful galoshes kindergartners use to tromp through the stream that runs alongside the campus.
EHDD worked closely with school leadership to develop a campus plan that nearly doubled the building area on campus while maintaining the same scale, character and sense of place as the original campus.

The new buildings, inseparable from their landscape, hold close to these campus traditions. The library and classrooms are integrally connected to outdoor learning spaces and fit within the existing campus footprint to preserve natural surroundings. The courtyards, including the terraced Step-Up courtyard, bring this landscape into the heart of the campus. A restored stream returns the east edge of the campus to a more natural state.