The following themes are deemed critically important in the design of successful learing environments. Please address each in your submission along with any others that you believe distinguish your project as exceptional.
Learning Ambience Use of color, light, and space to facilitate learning. Control of environmental factors such as indoor air quality, temperature, and acoustics to optimize the learning environment. Allowing educators and students to personalize the learning environment through displays of students' work. Infusing instructional technology throughout the building. Using this building as a teaching tool. Educational Community Creating space for collaboration among teachers, students, and/or community members. Multi-Functionality Designing spaces to easily serve more than one purpose at various times during the school day. Transformation of spaces to different uses is easily accomplished. Designing spaces that can be converted to serve different purposes as programs change over the years without major capital expense.
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Sustainable Design Committed to comfortable, healthy and energy-efficient learning environments. Minimizing the school's impact on local, regional and global ecosystems. Utilizing high performance building strategies to impact learning. Minimize costs associated with operations and maintenance over the life of the building. Civic Presence Imparting a sense of gravity to and importance about the educational mission. Inspiring respect and awe. The design demonstrates a commitment to creating comfortable, healthy and energy-efficient learning environments. Subtle Security Emphasizing unobstrusive security measures. Facilitating easy supervision via transparent environments. Not simply relying on technology. |
