Micro School

The micro school initiative was about the ability to provide an autonomous experience of learning to the individual studying and how a design would cater to the experience. The project was less about the design of a grand school program and instead focused on the creation of a specialized environment for the sole purpose of learning. My micro-school is about the difference and the coexistence of individual and group study with the focus on creating a space where individuals can come together to collaborate and share their knowledge gained after individual research. The project accomplished this by the hard zones within it, a perimeter focused solely on individual learning with the center being specially catered to group work.

Why Micro
The installation of a micro-school allows for the quick and easy deployment of educational spaces within areas that are in crisis or lacking substantial education. The scale of the building means that these schools aren't meant to educate a large population, but rather provide a solution to a specific problem in a wide variety of sites that need schools. Micro-schools also allow for the quick deployment of ideas to test in live learning environments.
Precedent Research
The challenge of designing the micro-school came from the project guidelines to translate the guiding principles behind a megastructure, in this case, the Exeter Library by Louis Kahn into the design of a micro-school on a far smaller scale. In order to accomplish this goal, a series of drawings analyzing the overall design and structure of the Exeter Library to translate the Carrel Space of having the desks be on the perimeter of the building into the new design.
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