Where army officers once imbibed feely at a private club on their base near Monterey, Calif., dyslexic K-8 students now celebrate the use of water at a reborn Chartwell School.

“They tend to learn in a more experiential way, rather than in a rote manner,” said Bry Sarte, principal at Sherwood Design Engineers of San Francisco, New York and Cambridge, the firm that designed the educational elements of the school. “Our challenge was to create a more tactile education through the design of the building.”

Read the full interview at Architects and Artisans.

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