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Slate Seeks Ideas for New School Environments -- Submit Your Idea

Please review the following artical and respond by making a submission on Slate.

http://www.slate.com/id/2269307/

All teams have created facinating ideas about schools and this is a chance for all of you to share and receive some comments. Please post a link back to your entry as a responce to this request.

Schematic Design Phase Assignment

Build upon your experiences in the previous assignment by implementing the objectives and goals outlined in your program for your school. The success of your schematic phase will be measured by how well you implement the ideas of meeting the following: 

• The educational and children's needs related to the curricular objectives outlined in your diagrams and curricular and educational objectives of the school outlined in the project description. Focus on how the design supports constructivism and Multiple Intelligence, and project based learning. 
• Values and philosophical objectives of the school as authored in your program. 
• Strengthening the schools relationship, relevance, and significance to the community and culture.
• Meeting the physical, psychological, social and technical needs of the school as you outlined in your program. 
  • Physical and Spatial requirements 
  • Furnishings, Fixtures and Equipment
  • Security and Code Requirements
  • Lighting and Acoustical Requirements
  • Ergonomic and Universal Design
  • Communication needs of the students, teachers, and staff in the school.

When you complete your design you should be able to present your work and complete the following statements in your presentation/design reviews:

• This is how the design supports a whole to part learning by....
• A student is approached as a multiple intelligence individual by the design....
• The design meets the cultural needs of Finnish culture by....
• The design recognizes for project based learning because we have created....
• The interior design of the school implements the conceptual diagram by.....
• This is how the interior design meets/supports the philosophy and values of the school...

The above questions allude to the type of questions you should constantly challenge your team in the schematic phase. Your team may refine the and redirect the questions based on your unique direction and emphasis for the project. But the spirit of fulfilling the educational and cultural needs must be supported by your design proposal. Be prepared to respond to these type of questions as you design your school and interact with the instructors. 

Due for October 25th reviews. 

 The October 28th reviews will conducted in teams of two at a conference table and will rely on you effectively illustrating you are meeting the assignment requirements with tangible responses (drawings, models, illustrations). Except for the sustainable materials/systems poster the work may be in process. All work must be presented to the instructors as printed or physical examples. 

1. Sustainable Material/System Poster (Individual Assignment) 

Each student is to research, design, and print a 24"X36" Interior Design Material/System poster to describe the issues of sustainable design related to the selected material and or system. 

• The poster should describe the properties of the materials and impact to the environment based on production, transportation, installation, maintenance of the material or system. 
• Each student is to select a unique material significant to in the design of an interior. Start with the following list and add materials and systems until each student has a unique material/system. 
  • carpet
  • wall coverings
  • paint
  • wood flooring
  • acoustical ceiling systems
  • gypsum wall board 
  • glass partitions
  • metal furnishings 
  • textiles 
  • concrete 
  • wood finishes
• Illustrate ideas related to sustainability with diagrams and photographs.
• Provide bibliographic references to support your statements on your poster. 

2. Complete the overall school planning/layout for all major spaces and functions. Illustrate with floor plans that include partitions, doors, windows, circulation, egress, etc... Include all spaces as outlined in your program. Provide two complete section elevations illustrating the above spaces. Provide 11X17 prints at the review on the 25th.

3. Inital material and color studies. Bring samples and ideas to the review on the 25th.

4. Inital design work completed for six distict/significant spaces. (ideas for furniture, colors, materials, layout, lighitng, for each of the six spaces.) Process drawings/sketches and/or computer models 11X17 prints for plans, elevations, and perspectives, and 8.5X11 for furniture and material selection. This should be rough ideas in sketch form. 

• Learning spaces (2 minimum)
• Entry and circulation spaces
• Office Suite
• Media, Eating, Galleries, Presentation and or Performance Spaces
• Rest Rooms (select one)

Due for November 8 FINAL PROCESS CRITIQUE -- 90% of Design Complete

1. Detailed interior design for significant spaces as selected above.

2. Materials Box -- A box with actual materials used for the six distinct spaces as outlines above. 

3. Materials, Furnishings, Equipment, and Fixtures (Includes complete lighting and ceiling systems for the selected spaces.) All supporting material should be created in a Technical PDF Notebook. This should match the spaces selected for your material box above. We will plan and develop a form/standard PDF form during class for material and FF&E. 

4. Plans, Section Elevations for the entire building/school. These should illustrate all major spaces in scale and implement traditional architectural graphic communication methods.  

5. Illustrations (Rendered Perspectives, Renered Floorplans, Rendered Elevations)

6. Technical documents for lighting design. Reflected ceiling plan, schedule and cut sheets/supporting technical documents, including photometric data for light fixtures and lamps. Placed in technical PDF binder. 

7. Lighting Study for one learning space. Based on your experience earlier in the term with light and space create a physical model of one learning space and experiment and present a lighting concept related to you school design. 

8. Computer animation of your space. 

9. You must also meet all requirements as outlined in the Project Overview blog entry.