Project by Ashley Broyles
What happens when an educational pedagogy is integrated into every aspect of design? By utilizing the Harkness method, this school utilizes a flexible open floorplan. The natural environment and treescape are also vital to the design, creating opportunities for continuation of classrooms to the exterior as an extension from roof to canopy. Fiber Optic Concrete acts as material for the entire roof, providing a translucent quality which scatters light throughout the interior. On the interior, spaces also rise and fall based on intended uses, informed through a responsive floor plate topography that engages with the roof to create private spaces throughout the floorplate. Contour lines created from the natural slope of the floor guide classroom size and shape. The resultant form of the school provides a launching point for a new educational perspective to bolster students’ education, and redefine what it means for a space to become a classroom.
