10/28/09 Mid-point Summary

I think it is time to shrink our idea concisely

Even though we have come up with various ways to work on this project (having unit based model, playing around with digital project model, stacking up strategy of classrooms, jello model idea, etc) and certainly they all are good trials, we both felt we jumped around with only few constant ideas.

It's not that we are going to continuously focus only on the classrooms. But if I can tell people our concept as one sentence, I would say "We aim to create flexible school space": which is the latest conclusion we made yesterday with Karl.
(It's also interesting to remember we were looking at futurist paintings and expression of movements at the beginning, giving some connections to what we have now)

In Shigeru Ban's naked house there are movable boxes for each family members.
These box shaped rooms provides infinite possibilities of arranging them.

By saying flexible, I meant to create space without only one kind of given program. The word flexible could actually mean movable space (i.e Shigeru Ban's naked house), but we decided to think of that word as more programmatically. At one point gym and hangout space can be one area, whereas another time the same hangout space can be linked to library : programs are pouring their quality to their adjacent space. Even some programs can be used as circulation as well. This will lead us to have fixed but flexible space as far as program matters.


We are now setting up these possibilities among programs. programs which are fixed, or being overflowed, mixed with circulation. This diagram would let us start building real space and study model based on its rules.

Additionally, I hope we can carefully join our concept with sunlight analysis eventually- creating bright classrooms though they are not all on the top.