Eco-Cubby: footprint on the world

Bundalaguah Primary School

Architects Kirsty Fletcher and Jon Pye and the students at Bundalaguah have completed their scale model and as you can see from the images below, it is FANTASTIC!

Bundalaguah Primary School

Here's the final plans and model from Bundalaguah...WOW

The final ideas were combined into a small model, then the very clever Architects Jon and Kirsty produced the drawings - complete with kids!

 

This really is too cool for school...there are tyres that make up seats as well as part of the garden. Can you spy the secret door?

The final model is 1:10 scale and looks fab!

Bundalaguah Primary School

Architects Kirsty Fletcher and John Pye have been busy working with Bundalaguah Primary’s year 5 students. Below (courtesy of Kirsty) is an image of their model showing specific design elements and features - click to enlarge or go to Kirsty Fletcher’s blog for more photos in detail.

Kirsty and John are now in the process of developing final drawings of the design. We look forward to the next update!

Bundalaguah Primary School

 

On the 11th May, I visited the year 5 students at Bundalaguah. I walked into a classroom exploding with activity, cardboard boxes and modeling materials were spread across the room and the students were busy, busy, busy!

The students have done a huge amount of work in class with both their teacher Mrs Richards and with their Architects, John Pye and Kirsty Fletcher who are doing a fantastic job planning and delivering a dynamic program for the students.  The class has been doing a lot of group work in the form of focused workshops and activities. They have investigated their site in depth and have done a lot of work in class to understand measuring and scale.

Activities have emphasized the importance of understanding scale and space and the students created measured drawings and models of playground equipment. (Using the playground equipment to begin with has allowed students to interact with familiar structures in a different way). In order to develop designs that are realistic, each student created a 1:20 scale model of themselves out of plasticine, which has helped to develop their designs in proportion to the human body. They also created a 1:20 site model to help visualise where on site the cubby would be situated as well as to help understand orientation.

One of Bundalaguagh’s initial brainstorming sessions about the project came up with the following:

Our Eco-Cubby will:
- be fun
- have bits we can help build
- be decorated
- be able to be changed
- not be a house
- have more than one way in and out
- have a trap door or secret door or both
- have more than one room
- have a tunnel
- have spaces of different sizes
- have a space for playing games and have other spaces to sit
- have a roof you can play on or in
- have a ladder or a slide
- have a hole in the roof
- be cool in summer and warm in winter
- have a vegie patch
- collect water for the vegie patch

The groups designed their cubbies based on this list and have come up with some fantastic results. They have now decided on one design and are working to develop and improve its features. The next step is to work closely with Jon and Kirsty to create final drawings and their 1:5 model.

Congratulations Year 5, you are doing a fantastic job!

Kirsty taking votes as to which design the students like the best

design with slide, rooftop garden, access ladder, vegie patch and watering can!

one design with vegie garden, tree and climbing wall in the background

the year 5's are a groovey looking bunch!