IpanemaEdu
I. Introduction
Transforming education through innovative spaces, rigorous curriculum, and environments built for students to learn how to learn.
Education is one of the most meaningful investments we can make in a person's life.
Transforming Education Through Innovative Spaces
IpanemaEdu brings together educational planning, curriculum development, and campus environments designed to help students build intellectual discipline, communicate clearly, and prepare for meaningful academic paths.
II. Present Projects
This section separates current work in development. Multedo Campus remains listed here as an active present project, while the image gallery below belongs to another client project and is shown only as concept imagery.
Current project status: concept development and under-construction planning. The same property is also documented below in Past Projects as the private school campus at 7300 Old Santa Fe Trail.
View Multedo Campus in Past ProjectsThe following images are conceptual studies for another current project in the client's portfolio. They are not images of Multedo Campus and are not completed project photography.
Concept Images - Present Project
Visual studies for a separate present-stage project in the client's portfolio. They are included to communicate mood, architectural direction, landscape integration, and future development intent without representing Multedo Campus.
III. Past Projects - Private School Campus
Introducing the Multedo Campus, a beautiful 26 acre property nestled among the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo mountains on the Historic Old Santa Fe Trail.
Note: Multedo Campus is also presented above under Present Projects as its own active project. The concept image gallery in Present Projects belongs to a separate project.
Course outlines currently presented:
Facilities are presented through campus photography, building references, site plans, utilities, grounds, and water-rights documentation.
Curriculum Development
English classes meet daily for all grade levels. Courses focus on student writing, representative masterpieces of American and world literature, grammar, oral presentations, vocabulary, and reading and writing as lifetime activities.
Mathematics classes meet daily for all grade levels. The program emphasizes basic working knowledge, preparation for advanced college-level work, and mathematics as a model for precise analytical thinking.
Fernando Multedo Article
Fernando Multedo, Ed.D., presents mathematics as a foundation for disciplined thought, clear reasoning, sustained attention, and academic confidence.
The article emphasizes that mathematics is exact, abstract, and logically structured. When taught well, it strengthens the habits students use across every discipline.
Multedo connects capable teachers, clear accountability, and high parental expectations to the way students learn, practice, focus, and persist.
The piece links mathematical practice to intensive reading, careful listening, concentration, memory, understanding, and the ability to separate strong arguments from weak ones.
"There are no short cuts or laborsaving methods to make math easy or always fun. It takes time and practice and thinking and work."
Excerpt adapted from "Mastering Math Helps Students Learn How to Learn" by Fernando Multedo, Ed.D., Columbia University Teachers College.
Buildings & Facilities
The campus presentation emphasizes substantial construction, specialized learning environments, and high-standard materials capable of supporting rigorous academic, athletic, arts, and residential uses.
Exterior views, facade details, atrium imagery, and library references presented without aggressive cropping so the building character can be reviewed in detail.
Exterior and interior references grouped for easier scanning, including the images needed to understand the building envelope, rooms, and support spaces.
Exterior, plan, and support images presented as facility references.
Exterior imagery with floor plan reference for layout understanding.
Building images plus Pumphouse Building floor plan for program and circulation review.
Gatehouse and entry views documenting the campus arrival sequence.
Campus Grounds
Public Utilities - Santa Fe County
Santa Fe County Water plus Existing Well with Three Acre Feet Water Rights.
On-site well with 3 acre-feet of water rights, to remain in service as back-up and fire safety supply.
Santa Fe County Water: 5.95 acre feet of water rights reserved; further expansion allowed.
3.1 General. As a condition of water service, the Owner is responsible for assuring that the Utility has sufficient water rights, either through a water rights transfer or payment of a fee in lieu of providing water rights ("In-Lieu Fee"), to support the maximum water demand of the Development, plus 20% for reserve and loss ("Water Budget"). The Water Budget for the Development approved under this Agreement is 1.19 AFY, which the County will set aside for development pursuant to Resolution No. 2006-57.
The approved Water Budget for the Development may be increased for deliveries up to 5.95 acre-feet per year at the Property subject to: (a) the Development's increased water use complies with Utility Policies and applicable County ordinances and resolutions; (b) the Utility Director approves the increased maximum water budget, in writing; and (c) the Owner and the County enter into an amendment of this Agreement under which the Owner shall provide either water rights or pay an In-Lieu Fee, pursuant to Section 3.2, to support the increased use. As used in this Section 3.0, "water rights" may include contractual rights conveying a perpetual right to receive water.
3.2 Increase in Water Budget. The Owner may notify the Utility of any requested increase in the Water Budget, as described above, by letter to the Utility Director and shall not be required to file a renewal Application in order to seek such an increase to the Water Budget.
3.3 In-Lieu Fee. Owner shall pay or cause to be paid an In-Lieu Fee to cover the Water Budget, as shown in Recital D and to this Agreement. Unless the Board changes the amount of the In-Lieu Fee by adopting a generally applicable resolution or ordinance, the In-Lieu shall be calculated based on $19,431.00 per AFY in accordance with Resolution 2018-12.
Campus Waterline Connection - November 11th, 2023 Completion Date:
* Excerpt from Utility Line Extension and Delivery Agreement No. 2022-0182-PW, Approved 10-11-22, by the Santa Fe BCC
IV. Past Projects - Private Residential