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Program
Organizational strategy
The most palpable way of understanding and organizing program is by imagining program parts as a series of activities that people/children engage in during the course of a day. You want to determine the flow of activities the children engage in as well as the transition from one activity to the next and render the program as a dynamic and fluid network.
Your overall aim is to modify the line-up of classroom versus corridor space of a typical kindergarten building and develop a spatial model, which is specific to your chosen pedagogical kindergarten model.
5.1 Generic Program
Familiarize your self with the generic kindergarten program. Draw the spaces listed in section 06 of the general syllabus. In a simple scaled drawing 1/8" = 1'-0". Draw program areas as simple nurb curve loops corresponding in area to the generic program square footage.
5.2 Project Program
Adjust the default program on the basis of your pedagogical model of choice. Generate a project specific program organization.
5.2.1 Activity Terms
Research activities of children (and of teachers and administrators) and sort them in priorities suggested by your pedagogical model,
Example:
Free play
Structured play
Circle time
Art and craft
Nature and science exploration
Cooking and baking
Snacking
Resting
Eating
Reading
Movement
Music
etc.
Consider the following aspects:
- how much interaction does the activity involve
- how big is the group of children/teachers involved?
- how 'porous' is an activity, i.e., how much concentration does it require?
- how 'porous' is an activity, i.e. how closely can another activity area be placed to it?
- Outdoor exclusively/Indoor exclusively?
5.2.2 Time Based Diagram
Generate a time based activity diagram that registers the inflation or deflation of activity areas within the course of the day. Identify overlaps, adjacencies and activity clusters.
Start by listing daily and weekly routines that describe the schedules and activities of your chosen pedagogical kindergarten model. Identify the passage through program spaces a child enters or activates during a daily routine/weekly routine.
Specifically notate these three routines:
Students daily schedule
Students weekly schedule
Extraordinary event (example: a parent event: a talent show, parent meeting)
Draw activity areas and program hybrids as nurb curve line drawings that include program sizes.
5.2.3 Hybrid Terms
Based on the activity overlaps, identify and name program hybrids that emerge as scenarios, which occur in your kindergarten project.
Example:
Learning Corridor
Playful Reading
5.3 Spatial Diagram
Generate a comprehensive organizational diagram of your kindergarten program that suggests a spatial layout based on activity sequences, as well as adjacencies and activity clusters. Identify program hybrids and clusters by differentiating line weights and line types
The layout renders square footage as well as vertical arrangement of spaces.
Scale 1/8"=1'0"
One horizontal section
Two vertical sections
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