LPTC carpentry Building

The Carpentry Building at the Little Priest Tribal College consists of two principal areas, a shop area and a classroom area.

The shop area features a large open space with tools, storage, dust-collection capabilities and overhead doors with glazing for added daylight. Within the shop area polycarbonate chambered plastic sheathing is used in place of sheetrock in many places as an educational tool to allow students to see the framing and mechanical-electrical integration through the walls.

The classroom features a front and back hi-flex system for remote learning as well as on-site learning. One of the walls of the classroom features three panels of sheetrock at different levels of finishing (raw, taped and mudded, and painted and textured). In this way, the wall becomes a passive teaching device like the transparent walls in the shop area.

At the exterior, weathering steel is used for its resilient properties, and as it ages it will change colors over time as it developed a protective coating.