Noble学校体系已将芝加哥最大的“公园沙漠”中5.5英亩的工业棕地改造成了曼苏托高中（学生98％是少数民族及91％以上的来自低收入家庭）。

学校旨在为学生们创造一种文化，围绕着一个中央绿色空间组织布局，基于大学的传统合院式建筑，并使高中生可以设想未来的大学。

 With the Mansueto High School, Noble Network of Charter Schools has transformed 5.5 acres of industrial brownfield in Chicago’s largest “park desert” into a place of great opportunity for its students (comprising 98% minority and over 91% low-income.) The school’s mission starts with creating a culture for students where the only option is a success, both short and long-term. The design of the school supports this goal, organized around a central green space that emulates a college quadrangle and allows high-schoolers to envision a college future.

这座占地6.7万平方英尺的两层建筑，几乎完全是围绕着一个景观庭院，外立面采用黑色的砖，内部是浅灰色的金属板。

砖石结构的使用定义了建筑的形象，延续了基地的历史文脉，提供了一种保护感，并屏蔽了内部功能，使其免受沿繁忙的工业大道产生的交通噪音的影响。

The 67,000-sq-ft two-story structure, with a dark brick exterior and a light, gray metal panel interior, wraps almost completely around a landscaped courtyard. The use of masonry anchors the building’s identity, replicating the historical context of the site, providing a sense of protection, and shielding interior functions from the traffic noise created along the busy industrial thoroughfare.