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Kate Ganim | MArch Thesis Review 2 | 18 October 2011

Evolving the School


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Based on US Census Bureau data

The traditional educational model is in jeopardy

Offshoring Academic Ination


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Map of Conflict

City

School Admin

Teachers

Students

Parents

Prioritize uniformity andmetric assessment to gaugeachievement (to securestate/federal funding)

Prioritize overall studentgrowth and success enteringthe workforce


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Thesis goal: to design aneducational space that mediatesbetween traditional (measurableand linear) and alternative (creativeand non-linear) models of learning.


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Uniformity within the conventional school:material and human scale


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Uniformity within the conventional school:classroom scale

The classroom should be between 750 and 1,000 square feet, and accommodate between 20-25 children.The space requirement per child in a classroom ranges from 35 to 42 square feet.

Furniture that can be easily rearranged is recommended.

Open Classroom Space

Student Desk

Teacher Desk


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The centralized resource plan

The courtyard plan The classroom-clustering planThe courtyard with classroom

clustering plan

The dumbbell plan The spine plan

Uniformity within the conventional school:organizational scale

Shared facility

Classrooms

Circulation

Media Rooms


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Uniformity within the conventional school:site scale

Bus drop-off

Service vehicle access

Parent/Childdrop-off

Parking

Single access point (forsecurity and monitoring)

School Building

Direct access toplayground areas

Playground

Exterior Play Area

School Building

Motor Vehicle Circulation

Interior/Exterior Access


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Precedents:material and human scale

Olafur Eliassons Your Blind Passenger, creating sensory-intensive environments that change across the space

Mark Hortons The Little School, integrating ergonomics with the playful nature of children


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Precedents:room scale

Adventure Playgrounds, permitting freedom of movement and creative use ofthe spaces objects with no hierarchy imposed

ArkitemasHellerup Skole,a successfulexample of theopen plan due toarticulations and

differentiationsof space


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Precedents:organizational scale

RAND Corporation, optimizing redundancy of routes and minimizing length of routes to increase chance interaction

Mark Hortons The Little School, classrooms areplaced amidst play spaces, which become the

primary circulation spaces instead of corridors

Shared facility

Classrooms

Circulation


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Precedents:site scale

The Imagine Bus Project disposes of the traditional monastic autonomy ofschools with its mobility, bringing art education to kids

The Public School considers the city as the school: being everywhere andnowhere in the city, any place can become a classroom


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