Concept Statement

To create a community node that will contribute to personal growth through formal instruction and practical application.   The interior function will be easily accessible through the use of terracing and exposing its skeleton.

Precedent - School for the Future

This is a school in Johannesburg, South Africa that has simple components that are exposed.   Also, I like how entry to the program spaces is not through the exterior, rather off a covered "courtyard"

Link to .ai file.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12962801/Precedent.ai

Precedent - Boston Adult Technical Academy

This is a quick precent pertaining to program.   The Academy caters to 19-22 yr olds who basically get a second chance.   One important thing to note is the Academy is a day school, which could interfere with maintaining a job etc while taking classes.   It is not necessarily a visually stimulating building but I think the program that they have is similar in scale and scope to what we are looking to accomplish.

Link to .ai file
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12962801/BATAprecedent.ai

Updated Diagram

Updated Bubble Diagram

Link to Download .ai file

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12962801/BubbleDiag3.ai

Preliminary Diagramming

We began with some basic bubble diagramming to begin to order the spaces and think about placement, adjacencies, security etc.

The drawing above was revised to:

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This blog is to document our collaborative efforts throughout the semester in Spring 2012 Studio