This is a textbook example of how to compose a school in the grand style – the style of Friedrich Froebel whose educational building blocks were Frank Lloyd Wright’s introduction to architecture.<\/p>\n
Lego morphed with Snakes and Ladders; a fun place to be. Some of the windows can be opened, the architects tell us; beamlike walls are puncture-designed to keep out direct tropical sunlight and offer a lingering memory of cross-ventilation (once the be-all-and-end-all of tropical architecture).<\/p>\n
Like a textbook functionalist diagram, beams of activities are stacked and colour coded – extra-curricular activities are purple, a sound lesson for the 2000 pupils\u2019 later life. The shady and permeable spaces apart from their climatic appropriateness artfully fulfil the intention of offering a creative environment for learning and interactive pursuits.<\/p>\n
We must now keep our eyes on the next generation in this part of the world; if these Froebel Blocks do their trick, they could well germinate an Indonesian variation of the Prairie School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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