Houston 学习+ Team Design Educational Village for Cypress-Fairbanks ISD
日期
2018年3月21日
Our 学习+ team worked alongside Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District (ISD) to create a comprehensive learning environment that promotes lifelong learning. 布里奇兰高中, 吉姆和帕姆威尔斯小学, and a future middle school are part of a multi-campus site where all schools are in close proximity to each other to create a next generation learning community, 被称为教育村.
IBI设计团队, 由主任组成, 马克法国, 兼项目经理, 劳拉Michela, had a vision for an educational village that went beyond just the sharing of spaces; it was the idea of a shared community that fosters joint learning opportunities, 在学生之间创造协同效应, and encourages collaboration across disciplines and grade levels. This allows advanced students to take advantage of higher level course work in the adjacent facilities and promotes mentorship-based relationships, with higher grade level students acting as mentors for their younger peers.
“The idea of an educational village is that schools can benefit from shared spaces. We had multiple discussions about what that meant during 设计. There can be complications in allowing grade levels to coexist unsupervised, 尤其是在学生人数众多的情况下. We really had to evaluate what physical spaces could be shared and what could not, and we needed to rethink the concept of the educational village as it has been done in multiple school districts in the Houston area,项目经理, 劳拉Michela.
All facilities are 设计ed with a variety of flexible classroom configurations and various collaboration and extended learning opportunities. 透明度是一个明确的设计驱动力, 如客户所述, to provide connections between various learning spaces, to create curiosity and pique the interest of learners, and to allow passive supervision of collaborative student groups which can exist outside the formal classroom environment.
AG平台的服务范围包括规划, 编程, 设计, 室内设计, construction administration and 3D visualization capabilities. 场地大小限制, 将场地水平一分为二的管道, and identifying shared spaces proposed 设计 challenges in locating the three campuses on the site and maintaining relationships between them.
Staff from our Houston and Portland offices worked together to develop the 设计 of the educational village through an internal 设计 competition. 最初, 5个不同团队提交了11个设计, which were reduced to three and presented to the school district where one was ultimately selected. The final 设计 took elements from all three proposals to create the highly anticipated educational village.
