Workshop articles address the importance of room arrangement in early childhood settings: "Creating Environments that Intrigue and Delight Children and Adults" (Wendy Shepherd and Jennifer Eaton); "3 Keys to Flexible Room Arrangement" (Elizabeth Prescott); "Mood: The Spirit of Place" (Anita Rui Olds); and…

Advantages, disadvantages, and mistakes to avoid are outlined. (Author)

How one planning team solved the problem of getting the utmost out of the square footage and the budget provided for teaching spaces in a medical school. (Author)

Bringing together the important elements of the creative arts facility requires careful attention to design details. Tuning in the senses should be the guide when planning the important aspects of seating capacity, lighting, and acoustics. (Author)

Provides verbal and diagramatic evidence that opening up traditional classroom space to provide a more fluid atmosphere and greater team teaching possibilities need not be a costly, highly complicated business. (Author)

Trends changing from "fad" status to acceptance as the norm for contemporary schools are flexibility, adaptability, a reduction in fenestration, compactness, use of color, carpeting, and many new construction materials. (Author/MLF)

This report gives a picture of the Nashville University Center (NUC) during the academic year 1973-74. The purpose of the NUC is "to encourage through cooperation operating economies and academic and community programs that cannot be undertaken by individual institutions." To succeed in creating individual programs of cooperation, the…

Business and professional sectors have initiated some functional and useful planning and design for continuing education facilities in direct response to the needs of users as students and as individuals. Provides several examples of facilities designed to lessen the impact of transplant on students, allow social mingling as well as classroom…

Primary influences on a community college building design such as site, educational program, and budget produce building designs that are different in each case. However, because of the community college's unique educational role, these variables are multiplied almost infinitely. The three primary education objectives of most community colleges…

Three ways to provide necessary recreational facilities, in spite of severely limited construction funds, are: (1) renovate, remodel, or expand existing structures; (2) cooperate with other groups and agencies for multiple use of existing structures; and (3) make new construction low cost and energy efficient. (CJ)

Describes for administrators eleven nots'' -- e.g., ignoring citizens, teachers, educational programs, school safety, flexibility, and environmental considerations in the initial planning process; failing to engage in feasibility studies and in information-giving question/answer sessions with community members, staff, and students; and…

Four steps in planning an industrial laboratory (hire an educational planner, prepare a community analysis, analyze curriculum and develop educational specifications) ensure a functional, pleasing learning atmosphere at no extra cost. Basic planning factors, recent design innovations, six detailed floor plans, and considerations for achieving…

A recent study outlines the environmental prerequisites for a successful day care center. (Author)