SPACE SLATE SCHOOL

The Slate School takes a more extreme approach with their use of SLCs by completely eliminating other types of spaces. With this layout students spend the vast majority of their time in the SLC and only use the exterior spaces for movement between SLCs, or for exercise and other movement based learning.

As a learning space for young children this school provides a very unique approach. Similar to Francis Parker, there are no connecting hallways from space to space, meaning if a group of students are going to go somewhere its directly outside. This layout emphasizes the ‘school-within-a-school’ mantra regularly associated with SLCs and provides a unique alternative to other layouts.