Future Architects
Their own school, surveyed and rebuilt to scale
The program leads 8-11 year-olds to read the space they live in every day: their own school. There is no imaginary city to design, only the real building to survey, its shapes to recognize, and a scale model to build.
- School level
- Primary school
- Age
- 8-11 years old
- Structure
- 30 hours over 8 sessions. Groups of 3-4 children, each working on a real portion of the school building, identified through an on-site survey.
The programme
Solids in hand
4hExploration of the fundamental solids and construction of a cube and a cuboid in card.
Projections and the real school
4hIntroduction to the three views and survey of the school building, with a photographic record of the assigned section.
The section on screen
4hReconstruction of the section in the three-dimensional modelling environment.
From solid to flat net
4hDrawing of the flat net and verification of its placement on the real plan.
Finishing and logbook
4hCompletion of the digital model and first entry in the logbook.
Construction
4hPreparation of the common base and construction of the section in card.
The school takes shape
4hFinal placement of the sections and integration of the elements recorded during the survey.
The school presents itself
2hClosing presentation by the groups and reconstruction of the work carried out.
The outcome
The full building model, assembled portion by portion, presented by the children on the final day.
For the school
- The modelling environment runs in a browser, in a virtual classroom set up by Field of View, with access requiring no personal email addresses.
- The scale model stays with the institute.
- The programme can be framed as an extracurricular workshop, as a Summer Plan module or within a PON project. In that case the documentation required for reporting is provided: attendance register, an assessment sheet of the competences reached, and a certificate of participation.
Bringing this programme to your school
This page can be shared with the school leadership without sending the whole catalogue. A twenty-minute conversation defines the calendar, the number of sessions and the adjustments the institute’s context requires.