This is what I shared at "What We Do". This project started as a collaboration between 3 students, Arthur Harsuvanakit, Judy Chang and myself at the Rhode Island School of Design from different backgrounds (Architecture, Interior Architecture and Industrial Design) coming together to design the future learning space for a Architecture for Humanity competition. As we began doing research in the history of education and how schools are designed based on the philosophy of teaching and learning of the day. The most important and striking conclusion we made is that the changes in the physical space can never keep up with the changing in teaching and learning philosophy. This changed our approach to this project from this point on, we didn't want to fall into this ever ending cycle, where the design for the future is not going to be relevant in the near future.

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After a month and a half of research during Winter Session at RISD, we put together our findings, and how we ended up working with Classical. We studied the history of schools and learning communities in the Providence area. We identified a couple of schools that we were interested in working with and visited them gaining more insights to how the school are being run.

We finally decided on using Classical high School as our case study, because of their unique spacial challenges. In the presentation, we have identified these problems and opportunities in plan and photo.

This is the team that will be working with Classical High School

Arthur Harsuvanakit
Industrial Design Student

Judy Chang
Interior Architecture Student

Taijasa Jordan
Architecture student waiting for Final Fantasy 13 to come out

Tino Chow
Industrial Design Student