Architype Dialogue presents José Adrião, Architect What was the single hardest issue to predict about working within this building type and/or the most unexpected challenge that influenced new thought in the building? The fact that this a Elementary School and that we are dealing with four to ten year old kids make this project very [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Javier Larraz, Architect What was the single hardest issue to predict about working within this building type and/or the most unexpected challenge that influenced new thought in the building? Without a doubt, the fact of projecting a building for three year old children. A nursery is the first public space that they [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Phillip Lehmann and Alain Fidenza, Architects What was the single hardest issue to predict about working within this building type and/or the most unexpected challenge that influenced new thought in the building? The greatest challenge was the search for an adequate typological-spatial solution to the issue of a primary school building. The [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents John Shnier, Architect What was the single hardest issue to predict about working within this building type and/or the most unexpected challenge that influenced new thought in the building? As a school specializing in young students gifted in the arts, we had a mandate to provide a building which performs at a [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Anne Schopf, Architect What was the single hardest issue to predict about working within this building type and/or the most unexpected challenge that influenced new thought in the building? The narrow, north-south oriented site presented an immediate challenge. In order to align classrooms for optimum daylighting, we developed compact learning clusters that [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Peter Gluck, Architect What was the single hardest issue to predict about working within this building type and/or the most unexpected challenge that influenced new thought in the building? School buildings have historically been designed for the pedagogy of the day; as pedagogies change, the buildings are difficult to reconfigure. For [&hellip
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