Building Experiences

Workshop Programme

Design a Community Centre

Size - Space - Scale

Size, space and scale are key elements in this Workshop that allows participants to arrive at 3D models for a public building - a Community Centre. The approaches once used can be adapted to any real, local building that might be of interest to the School and its curriculum. The Workshop embraces a number of National Curriculum subjects and areas, e.g. Maths, Design & Technology, Science, and English.

It promotes problem solving, group-work and decision-making.

Once completed, you will know how best to use and develop the opportunities from the Workshop. The Workshop can be used at both Primary and Lower Secondary levels.

The Workshop

Time: 2 Hours
Space Required:Classroom with desks
Other Requirements: Scissors: Glue: Coloured pens

Participants are each given one of 4 possible kits from which to make a 3D model of a freestanding building. These vary in shape and size – but are all to the same scale.

Through discussion they decide which they feel ‘best’ fits the site that has been made available for a new Community Centre.

A scaled Floor-Design Layout exercise follows and allows the participants, working in pairs, to arrive at what any Community Centre might contain.

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