Explain the concept of space agility. Explain why traditional school design will need to change. O ver the next 10 years, thousands of new schools will need to be built and thousands more renovated and expanded. To call this a national crisis does not overstate the situation. To then imagine that this crisis is and will continue to be a huge boon to the architectural profession is a reasonable deduction.
Architects take heed, though.
Several recently completed projects illustrate how some architects are reinventing a design model that hasn't changed in 50 years. It's the first in the nation to combine the resources of a public school system, a land-grant university, and an advanced research and development community known as the Research Triangle. This unique middle school resulted from a collaboration between a public school system and a state university. The next phase will house university research and pilot programs. A joint venture such as this, while beneficial to all in the end, is initially a great deal more complicated than other kinds of projects.