It was very fortunate for me to find out this school, since it deals similar matters that we have concerned about.
North Kildare Educate Together school in Ireland, was built for making normal kids and autistic kids stay together. Yet they are supposed to be separated at the same time in curriculums and activities. ( Also for safety for normal kids.) Having these two big conflicting issues, the designer might have thought much about how shared and individual space is related one another. It is just as we are doing now, grouping students in a big name of k-8 school.
The architect's strategy to mix and isolate students was quite straightforward, in my view. What he did was to have one entrance connected to main courtyard , but having separate classrooms all around it. Also for different activities each classrooms has their little garden behind. In plan view programs are distributed having the public courtyard in the center. The overall appearance of the school, therefore, doesn't have strong outstanding features.
The fact that the school reacted quite easy to given condition makes me think a bit easier to our massing process. Often times I feel weird when things are straight and simple. In the progress of arranging programs I would have to be careful to answer to given matters in direct ways, rather than considering too much about nice looking surfaces and secondary decisions.
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