Sunny Lan, Jason Chen
The Terrace School
Sunny Lan, Jason Chen
The Terrace School
The Terrace School
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About
Designing for disability opens an opportunity to design for multiple abilities and bodies and rethink the way different people move through spaces. Nestled along a hill in Taylor Creek Park is the Terrace School with three massing volumes terracing along the slope of the hill, designed as a school for children from grades 3 to 6 and accommodates for students on the autism spectrum. To encourage an outdoor and collaborative learning environment, the school greatly opens up to the surrounding forest environment as a design approach. Despite the programme being situated on various elevations, the design challenges the nature of the site by maintaining accessibility throughout, with an easily navigable central central ramp and interconnected learning spaces that make the school feel unified while creating unique learning spaces for children with different learning styles, spaces of controlled stimulation, and spaces to escape and retreat from the school environment.
About
Designing for disability opens an opportunity to design for multiple abilities and bodies and rethink the way different people move through spaces. Nestled along a hill in Taylor Creek Park is the Terrace School with three massing volumes terracing along the slope of the hill, designed as a school for children from grades 3 to 6 and accommodates for students on the autism spectrum. To encourage an outdoor and collaborative learning environment, the school greatly opens up to the surrounding forest environment as a design approach. Despite the programme being situated on various elevations, the design challenges the nature of the site by maintaining accessibility throughout, with an easily navigable central central ramp and interconnected learning spaces that make the school feel unified while creating unique learning spaces for children with different learning styles, spaces of controlled stimulation, and spaces to escape and retreat from the school environment.
