Masters Thesis - Andrea Loubert
May 2022
This thesis focuses on reclaiming education as the practice of freedom. It creates a new educational facility that disrupts conventional limitations through the radical restoration of an existing 1920s school building. The project employs sectional complexity through layering, spatial flexibility through porosity, and is imbued with the power to find passion through non-prescriptive programming and wayfinding. This thesis seeks to entirely disturb the customary educational dogma surrounding what school buildings should look like, who gets to use them, and why we must use them. Indeed, to participate in the unmaking of traditional educational models, is to approach the possibility of lifelong fulfillment through learning.
