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Nation's Schools and Colleges, 1975
The University of Santa Clara has the world's largest permanent air-supported structure; a radar dome turns into a gymnasium in the Payette, Idaho, school district. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Air Structures, Building Conversion, Building Design, Building Innovation
Gorey, Ann; Porter, Jeff – Educational Facility Planner, 1993
Deliberately designing-in alternative, commercial, and future uses for new educational facilities has been utilized in a number of different projects in South Australia. Describes four facilities including drawings of the Port Adelaide College of Technical and Further Education. (MLF)
Descriptors: Building Conversion, Building Innovation, Cost Effectiveness, Economic Impact
Educational Facilities Labs., Inc., New York, NY. – 1973
New goals in physical education are leading instructors to seek new kinds of athletic facilities. School administrators are in the process of rethinking the classical facilities, i.e., the box-shaped gymnasium -- facilities designed without sensitivity to the students' desire to participate in the games they can continue to play after graduation.…
Descriptors: Air Structures, Athletic Fields, Building Conversion, Building Innovation
Clinchy, Evans; And Others – 1971
Discovered or "found" space in a school system most often appears as (1) space that a school system already owns in its outdated buildings and which is being used inefficiently; and (2) space lying close at hand in warehouses, factories, industrial plants, or in little-used public buildings. Found space is one solution to the problem of…
Descriptors: Building Conversion, Building Innovation, Building Systems, Construction Costs