GREENHOUSE CLASSROOMMODEL & BOOK

The force of this project was generated, in particular, by one educator within the Dallas Independent School District. He was the instructor of an “outdoor classroom” at an East Dallas school where he taught the subjects of ecology and environment to grades K-6. As his main objective was to educate students on how to become “producers rather than consumers,” he found the ‘portable classrooms’ that surrounded his garden to be a direct contradiction of this concept.

This design program for this project called for a prefabricated building system that could be installed anywhere in the U.S. The space was to be used as a greenhouse classroom designed to connect students with their natural surroundings.

Because shipping is so much a part of the design problem for portable classrooms, the system was conceived as an intermodal shipping container that would be prefabricated and packed with its required components. Upon arrival at a given schoolyard, the container itself would be ‘unfolded’ and assembled as a greenhouse classroom.

MODEL . 1/4” = 1’ – 0” . materials : basswood . medium density fiberboard . acrylic . wire . paint

BOOK . 67 bound pages of drawings, images, and supporting copy

This is an unbuilt, hypothetical project done in architecture school.

JDS : architecture . model fabrication . book design and production