In Progress: Burgundy Farm

‬Shockey has been chosen to build a replacement main lodge facility for ‬the Burgundy Center for Wildlife Studies (BCWS), located in a beautiful remote valley approximately two-and-a-half hours from Alexandria near Capon Bridge, West Virginia.

The team is collaborating to develop a comprehensive design-build strategy for a new‬ four-season building to replace the current lodge’s functions‬ in a modern facility that supports BCWS programs while maintaining a rustic, natural, and low-impart campus. The new facilities will support education including science lab space, student work space, and technology. The campus will also accommodate administration, overnight stays, storage, meal prep and eating, bathing, infirmary, laundry, and emergency shelter needs.‬

BCWS is both a wildlife sanctuary and an educational program owned and run by Burgundy Farm Day School. Beginning in first grade, students and teachers spend two or three days each fall and spring for academic immersive learning linked with lessons in Alexandria. Burgundy believes that learning happens everywhere, indoors and out — and that active, hands-on experiences and time in nature deepen understanding, strengthen the brain, and spark a lifelong love of discovery.‭

The pastoral main campus, where the lodge is located, sits on a 26-acre, partially wooded former dairy farm just outside the Washington, DC Beltway. Students immediately feel a shift in pace and place when they arrive, inviting curiosity, movement, and focus.