Degree Type
Honors Capstone Project
Date of Submission
Spring 5-1-2011
Capstone Advisor
Terrance Goode
Honors Reader
Randall Korman
Capstone Major
Architecture
Capstone College
Architecture
Audio/Visual Component
no
Capstone Prize Winner
no
Won Capstone Funding
no
Honors Categories
Creative
Subject Categories
Architecture | Cultural Resource Management and Policy Analysis | Interior Architecture
Abstract
CONTENTION It is possible to create a physical environment which will serve as a didactic tool for both pupils and educators. The tectonic language will be didactic on three levels: that of explicatively detailed timber framing, that of participatory and reconfigurable play modules, and that of demonstrative sustainable resource management. It will merge playground and classroom space, both modulated within a timber frame and allowing reconfiguration of physically and intellectually educational partitions. DESIGN PROBLEM The kindergarten is to be sited in Saranac Lake, NY, at the Jackrabbit Trailhead, near Moody Pond. The building will merge playground and classroom programs for the kindergarten level and use a didactic architectural language. A timber frame module will be used for both programs, with the playground elements freely reconfigurable and existing as subdivisions of the larger ‘classroom-sized’ module. The tectonics of timber frame assembly will be expressed and highlighted, as they represent a higher order of didactic toys. The kindergarten building will also serve as a didactic tool for demonstrating sustainable resource management, including water collection as well as passive heating, cooling, and air quality control. This will reinforce the natural site as one of the ‘teachers’ of the progressive kindergarten.
Recommended Citation
Lakoba, Vasiliy, "A Didactic Architecture for Rural Early Education" (2011). Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All. 217.
https://surface.syr.edu/honors_capstone/217
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