by Prakash Nair and Randall Fielding

The way space is organized can give school a powerful sense of community.

“SLCs are not unprecedented. It’s arguable that a good traditional small school provides the best template, because such an environment is really an SLC by another name. Any successful SLC has to replicate the kind of proximity schools in small rural towns once had naturally. When we designed Harbor City International Charter School, in Duluth, Minnesota, for example, we wanted to create a place where the staff and the school’s 200 students felt connected. The self-contained distribution of elements at this school is vastly different than the typical classroom/corridor arrangement typical of most school architecture.”

- Prakash Nair and Randall Fielding

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