precedents and guidelines for designing teaching spaces

CEE 321

October 3, 2006

• web patterns (even interaction): - unmoderated group (<15 people, round table, group conversation)- moderated (~70 people, more structured (i.e. business school)

• star patterns (dyadic interaction – instructor vs. students):- lecture (speech – asymmetric relationship)- demonstration (activity, object or process)- studio (individual tasks + dyadic interaction with instructor)

• clusters (large group divided into small clusters):- studio (instructor interacting with clusters – primary education)- separated (large group separated into smaller – higher education)

• mixed patterns: - concerto grosso (moderated web as exhibit for large audience)- intermittent conversations (student or group presents => class discusses the work

Source: Michael O’HareThe University of California at BerkeleyEducational Technology ServicesCopyright © 1997, paper

teaching space taxonomy

mixed pattern

clusters

star pattern

web pattern

Source: Daniel Davis, Associate ProfessorCollege of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture, University of HartfordProceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering education

design principles

• program-driven facility - “form follows function” Louis Sullivan

• expresses university’s values and goals

• flexibility to accommodate future educational changes (fixtures, furniture, equipment, storage etc.)

• “non precious” - easy to mess around in but difficult to mess up (permanent damage) - ease of cleaning, storage (ongoing projects), durable furniture

• new philosophy of space use: - discuss, analyze, compare, negotiate, hypothesize, and problem solving through group activity

• self directed environment (corporate world) vs. controlled (high school)

• well-lighted space – artificial emulating daylight - diffused daylight (avoid heat & glare => use full spectrum filters, clerestory, skylights, etc.)

MIT Media Lab

PureLite® Incandescent Natural Daylight –

filters out yellow spectrum

Source:AMA Alexi Marmot AssociatesSpace planning and design consultants London, UK

Source:AMA Alexi Marmot AssociatesSpace planning and design consultants London, UK

Source:AMA Alexi Marmot AssociatesSpace planning and design consultants London, UK

Source: Ruairi Glynn & Paul Burres Bartlett School of Architecture, London Copyright © 2006

reconfigurable spaces

• “ANGELS” intelligent agents – lighter than air (work as independent

spatial features or combine to assemble virtually infinite constructs.