omgsh. there you are! and a work-y post! no matter; umm, i wish my highschool looked like the ferstenburg center. stained concrete floors, trendy cement walls, the hallways were lined with a mix of cement and cedar planks. it was so totally soothing and it felt like someone loved putting it together. WIDE halls too. it felt like i was someone important while walking down a wide hallway. the narrow ones made me feel like livestock, and that someone didn't care about me or my experience. i wish my cafeteria wasn't linoleum. and had skylights. and that the chairs weren't shitty cracked plastic. the most important room was the library, which stunk of 50 year old books. but it was the social place - it made me want to study. just the right amount of books to tables ratio. and the tables were wood, but i wish they had lamps on them, like a REAL library where you could actually get smarter just by walking in. all done.
multiple levels!! ours was only one level and I always wanted to go to the high school that you see in the 1980s movies. ha ha. you want something that portrays energy, but doesn't allow for distraction. I am sure there MUST be a color scheme for that. ha ;0) it would make the most sense to have something very focused around not being distracting, but with nice little calm places you can sneak off to, like there are at college. little coves with comfy couches and the like. same with in the library. very comfy getaways. classrooms would be sloped too. like in college - the auditorium-like feel, yet still reasonably small. it seems to keep my energy up higher and I know school can be TERRIBLY boring. bathroom on each floor. wide halls like ern says. do NOT drill school colors into the ground or use crazy abstract shapes like we had that funky thing going on in our cafeteria. skylights are FAB. i like ern's idea with that, too, but it gets a bit more compllicated with multiple stories. :0) um, i guess those are all my
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umm, i wish my highschool looked like the ferstenburg center. stained concrete floors, trendy cement walls, the hallways were lined with a mix of cement and cedar planks. it was so totally soothing and it felt like someone loved putting it together. WIDE halls too. it felt like i was someone important while walking down a wide hallway. the narrow ones made me feel like livestock, and that someone didn't care about me or my experience. i wish my cafeteria wasn't linoleum. and had skylights. and that the chairs weren't shitty cracked plastic. the most important room was the library, which stunk of 50 year old books. but it was the social place - it made me want to study. just the right amount of books to tables ratio. and the tables were wood, but i wish they had lamps on them, like a REAL library where you could actually get smarter just by walking in.
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