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Courtyard and Bike Shelter Addition

By acalixto23 | XL Design an Addition for your School

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Ralph Ellison Campus, Chicago

Many schools were designed for the past and don’t reflect the 21st century learning environment. Some buildings need better ventilation or lighting, while others are simply not large enough to accommodate students comfortably. For this project, you are encouraged to envision an improvement for your school, something that would benefit everyone who uses it. The most successful designs will be ones that identify a specific need and present a strong design solution. The challenge is to add something that changes the footprint of your school building, while addressing a specifically identified need. Projects should include research and development, real world images and information showing why the need exists, in addition to final project design and information.

Me and my group will construct a courtyard only for seniors and a bike shelter for about 15 students to Curie Metropolitan High School. We are planning on using the tennis court that is behind the school; since it isn't being occupied by anyone. There is a baseball field located in front of the tennis court and we’re planning on relocating it so we can be able to expand the tennis court. The courtyard will be 260 feet wide on south and 253 feet wide on north, 168 feet long on east and 120 feet on west. The courtyard will be in a short distance of 35 feet from the school. Our bike shelter will be medium size for students who ride their bikes to school. It will hold 15 bikes since most use the train or car.

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Reeds Spring High School Addition, Reeds Spring, MO

Think About

  • What is the size of your school building? Using Google Earth and other online resources, generate a site plan for your school location.
  • What are your initial thoughts about the building? For example, is your school lacking room for art classes? Physical education? Band practice space? Common areas? Cafeteria space?
  • Talk to someone who has been at your school for a while, like a teacher or administrator. They will most likely have great insight as to what areas could stand to be improved.
  • Has anything like this ever been done in the past? If so, what were the results?
  • For more research, we recommend looking at “The Third Teacher: 79 Ways You Can Design to Transform Teaching & Learning,” by OWP/P Architects + VS Furniture + Bruce Mau. The book is easy to digest with lots of great images and design ideas, meant to inspire readers like you. The website for the book is also a great resource.
  • Search online for newly built schools and others that have been upgraded through similar processes. Do you notice anything in common among newly built schools?

acalixto23's work for the Collect Information step:

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A courtyard and a bike shelter will be a good school addition to be added to the school. Since Curie had gotten over crowded over the years, it would be nice to have a courtyard for seniors.
This is more like an inspiration picture that inspires us to incorporate our own courtyard design....
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This is currently the courtyard that is located in the middle of the two buildings at curie. It is...
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This is Curie's tennis court yard. It is behind the school and behind the field. We are...
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I provided an image of the back of the school where students leave their bikes everywhere. I...
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The red area is where we think we should locate our new courtyard and bike shelter design. The...
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This is a picture that inspired us. It inspired us with the idea on how are benches should look and...
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This image is also a inspiration picture. It gave us a idea on how we should construct are design...
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Karns High School Addition Plan, Knoxville, TN

Identify the problem you want to solve based on the information you have collected.

Explore at least three possible solutions, each of which will no doubt help you as you search for the best addition to your school.

  • What could your ideas look like?
  • How would it change the landscape of your school?
  • Who will benefit most from your design solution?

Try to answer these questions visually through sketching, and in words by taking notes.

acalixto23's work for the Brainstorm Ideas step:

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This tab will show the layout of the court yard we are planning on creating.
This imagine shows where we will be placing each material at. We decided to expand our space to...
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The design of this bike shelter is ideal to be placed about anywhere in our courtyard. We will have...
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This is a model of our courtyard and bike shelter design. This model gives you a idea of how...
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This is another image of our model from a different angle view. As you can see our bike shelter is...
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Fridley High School Addition Plan, Fridley, MN

From the previous step, where you developed multiple solutions to the design problem, you should select one of your designs.

  • What is your favorite design? Why?
  • What aspects of your school would it improve?
  • Who would benefit most from your new design?
  • What materials would you be using, and why?

Ideally you will want to create plans of some kind to communicate your final vision, so start to sketch site plans, elevations, and even a floor plan if necessary.

acalixto23's work for the Develop Solutions step:

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This tab is showing the sustainable materials that we used in our courtyard addition. We are trying to involve methods that do not complete use up or destroy natural resources.
The most common metal outdoor furniture is made from iron or aluminum. Therefore we decided to make...
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One of the most common wood outdoor furniture is made from Shorea. Shorea wood is one of the...
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Our tables will made out of recycled metal.
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Our bike shelter will provide cyclists with covered bike parking to protect against the elements...
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Recycling concrete provides sustainability several different ways. Our purpose of recycling the...
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Alexander Graham Bell School Addition, Chicago

Present your final design to your class, to get feedback before completing your project. If you talked to other people while working on and researching for this project, show them your design and get their feedback. If they talked to you before, they will want to see what you’ve created! Take notes during these conversations, and try to understand their suggestions before deciding if you wish to make any changes to your final design.

Carefully take stock of feedback from others and do your best to find the information that will help you finalize your project. Someone might tell you something seemingly small, but that bit of information might be the difference between a good project and a great one.

acalixto23's work for the Final Design step:

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In this final tab you will finally see our final design of the courtyard and bike shelter made on sketchup.Getting feedback from our group members helped us finalize our project to a higher quality.
Here you can see we provided efficient benches on either side of the court yard addition as well as...
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As you can see our tables have outlets as we have mentioned before. It'll be an easier way to...
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Now, here you can see we finished the final details on the gazebo that we decided to incorporate...
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Our fence that you see here divides the center of our courtyard and the sidewalk that heads to the...
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This is the total result of how everything looks together. You can see how the school looks next to...
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In an effort to make bycling even more appealing to students, staffs, and parents, Curie High...
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So when we were coming up with ideas for the school addition we had to do some changes to the site...
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