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  Spatial Planning Precedents I’ve learned that it’s important to provide 3 key design elements when creating educational spaces: community, comfort, and choice. Studies have shown that our traditional ways of designing typical schools and classrooms limit the child’s education, their choice of how they want to learn, and even their well-being. This is why we must break away from these traditional spaces and look to design more unconventional spaces that allow students to make their own choices on how they want to learn, what type of setting they wanna be in, and allow programs to merge to help build a community within the school that as a result encourages socialization among peers and a sense of belonging. The South Harbour School (Fig. 37) is a great example of this where they’ve designed their architectural stairs to also be used as a means of collaboration by providing seating areas for reading. The Ecole Elementary School (Fig. 34) and Nordostamager School (Fig. 36) share a s...

Demographics Sunsete Park has a significant Hispanic and Asian population and is safe to assume that the majority of the neighborhoods are coming from an immigrant background and with family households being the majority of residents, providing a school for immigrant children can be vital to supporting the community/neighborhood. Land Use  Sunset Park is a Brooklyn neighborhood with a mix of residential, commercial, and industrial areas. Here we can infer that residents are regularly active along 4th and 5th Ave most amenities and commercial spaces seem to be located along those avenues with the majority of residents living along there as well with a wall of industrial buildings separating the site from the neighborhood. Perhaps providing opportunities for schools to be accessible to the public can help further bring the community to Bush Terminal such as a welcoming corridor that connects between Bush Terminal Park to 5th Ave for a more accessible commute. Contextual Analysis Suns...