Wednesday, 10 March 2010
Sunday, 7 March 2010
Literature Reviews
Hi all
I think we should start discussing how we feel our literature relates to the school project and how we can use them to develop structure for our presentation and boards.
My text was: Dudek, M. Architecture of Schools: The New Learning Environments (2000) Architectural Press: Oxford
It considers the nature of a society of progressivism, relating to how schools are being revaluated at present through public sector and political means, especially within the BSF programme to improve the quality of education. I feel this strongly relates to the design and need for Hazelwood in the first place as it was positioned within a council programme for schools around the area.
The text also refers to schools attending to the needs of young children through security and a ‘home base’, a concept which is evident in the design of the school through small enclosed classrooms alongside a defensible zone including coat hooks, providing a intermediate zone between safety and school exploration, giving a sense of an individual students place.
Finally, I would like to comment on the design of schools for stimulation or suppression. Institutional, repeated rooms create a dull and unimaginative building, but cannot be fully discounted as they provide safety, security and a sense of control. Within current school design there seems to be a focus on breaking this nature to stimulate and encourage creativity, thereby providing less stability. Hazelwood’s modular class elements could be seen as manifestation of this need for security while also balancing the need creativity within the sculptural form and sense of ‘challenge’ outside of the classroom. I assume the teaching method plays a big part in this design also – with class rooms providing a stable – ‘sit down and learn’ environment, contrasting the physical exploration / practical learning within the spine of the building.
I think we should start discussing how we feel our literature relates to the school project and how we can use them to develop structure for our presentation and boards.
My text was: Dudek, M. Architecture of Schools: The New Learning Environments (2000) Architectural Press: Oxford
It considers the nature of a society of progressivism, relating to how schools are being revaluated at present through public sector and political means, especially within the BSF programme to improve the quality of education. I feel this strongly relates to the design and need for Hazelwood in the first place as it was positioned within a council programme for schools around the area.
The text also refers to schools attending to the needs of young children through security and a ‘home base’, a concept which is evident in the design of the school through small enclosed classrooms alongside a defensible zone including coat hooks, providing a intermediate zone between safety and school exploration, giving a sense of an individual students place.
Finally, I would like to comment on the design of schools for stimulation or suppression. Institutional, repeated rooms create a dull and unimaginative building, but cannot be fully discounted as they provide safety, security and a sense of control. Within current school design there seems to be a focus on breaking this nature to stimulate and encourage creativity, thereby providing less stability. Hazelwood’s modular class elements could be seen as manifestation of this need for security while also balancing the need creativity within the sculptural form and sense of ‘challenge’ outside of the classroom. I assume the teaching method plays a big part in this design also – with class rooms providing a stable – ‘sit down and learn’ environment, contrasting the physical exploration / practical learning within the spine of the building.
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