While stumbling about on Stumble Upon, I came across the following blog post – Redesigning Education: Rethinking the School Corridor. By a chap called Trung Le, who seems to have a range of views on the design of schools, it’s amazing to think who little the space for teaching in secondary schools has changed in the last 100 years. Check out this quote:
“School designers have used the double loaded corridor for easy circulation. It met its single purpose of moving kids from one contained classroom to the next at the sound of the bell. Now, when every aspect of a school’s design budget is being questioned, the square footage allocated to the double-loaded corridor accounts, on average, for up to 30% on the total. Roughly one-third of the typical school building is used not for learning, growing, or interacting, but for getting to the places where that happens.”
I’ll never look at a corridor in a school in the same way anymore!
