Less invasive than typical construction, the Pre-Fab Learning Landscape is a prototypical solution for many diverse urban schools that struggle to keep their doors open while they search for more permanent educational space. It is an adaptable environment, suiting variable learning styles and programmatic needs.
The brightly coloured metal-paneled 'classroom buildings', in their most basic iteration, serve as three traditional teaching spaces, each accommodating approximately 25 students and two teachers. The area between the classrooms and perimeter gymnasium walls, visible from space enlarging classroom windows, creates a place for small group learning.
By opening a series of large-scale whiteboard-clad sliding doors, this interstitial space can easily transform into a flexible location for a variety of sizable learning situations from dance performances to community meetings. Factory built, classrooms are made of metal framing clad in two-sided infill panels, bright coloured metal on the exterior and gypsum board on the interior.
Equipped with switch boxes, outlets and a factory-wired raceway, the framing system supports a metal ceiling grid, topped with a metal roof above and LED light-gypsum tile-dropped ceiling below. The double layered ceiling creates ample acoustical privacy throughout. Connections to base building mechanical, electrical and fire-protection systems run in the zone between the classroom metal roofs and the gymnasium ceiling.