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Schools can be places of inspiration, for students young and old. Too often, they are aseptic, stultifying prisons. Places of little inspiration and uninspired design.
A biology lab, in the shape of an elephant or a blue whale or a gigantic baobab tree
A tall, perfectly parabolic mathematics
classroom, with asymptotically shaped windows
Language classrooms, incorporating performance stages
Modular, molecular furniture in Chemistry labs
Physics classrooms, with the walls perforated with interference slits and gravity-driven windows, drawers, doors and lights...
The possibilities for good, exciting design are practically endless.
One of these ideas may have been done once, here and there, but not right across a campus, or multiple campus locations.
Education is to inspire. It seems to have become a victim of economic standardisation.
Anatomically_20Correct_20Campus
[half, Sep 28 2005]
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Great minds, [half]. This was inspired by my son's classroom. He's in preschool and this teachers have dressed up the doorway to look like a spacecraft hatchway. |
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I think I prefer ivied brick walls and cosy wood-panelled rooms with fireplaces for my places of learning. There's a place for architectural novelty, but it's hard to actually live with. |
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I like the idea and concept. However, some schools are fighting for tax dollar$ just to be made safe and efficient (my town's elementay school is an example). The school does not even have a sprinkler system and is 50% over capacity. |
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Too many people lose sight of what the ultimate goal of society is - to exist in a perpetual fashion. To accomplish this goal we need the replacement generation to be at least as smart as the current generation. My town is one of those that has lost this vision. |
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// think I prefer ivied brick walls and cosy wood-panelled rooms with fireplaces...// Those typically get rented out as condos, with the profits used to build inexpensive modern schools in low-rent areas. At least that's what happens in my city. |
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