| Central Region Middle School #7 houses 1350 Students in 50 Classrooms on a 5.85 acre site. This program-to-area ratio represents a shift from larger sub-urban sites to denser urban areas and requires a shift in the conception of building types, site strategies, and program distribution.
Density demands the project be considered a piece of the city rather than a stand-alone body. Architecturally, CRuMS#7 focuses on the strategic management of continuous/discontinuous elements and systems throughout, moving past accommodation to a condition that is programmatically generative.
CRuMS#7 seeks to use density to intensify urban education by proposing that programming should exist in the presence of an experience of higher density urbanism, where use and scale precede form, hence the oversimplified architectural language, from massing to detailing. |
