BEYE Discovery: More Architectural Inspirations!

Hi Families!

Following our visit with Brooke from Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust, we embarked on 2 additional projects to explore architecture on a very imaginative level. On Thursday March 8th, Hata challenged each student to re-create their own bedroom, without limitations.

For inspiration, Hata read a wonderful book by Margaret Wise Brown titled "Robin's Room" with paintings by Steve Johnson and Lou Francher. Robin is a child who draws and paints on everything, so his parents decide to give him his very own room. Since Robin is not pleased with the way his new room is coming together, he takes over the renovation and turns everything upside down, in a good way! All are satisfied, but especially Robin, who is now free to create to his heart's content and in a room he can truly call his own!!!

Below you will see some fabulous ideas, from holes in the ceiling to allow for star gazing, to beds that open like a clam shell, and lofted structures to play and sleep in.

Hata

An attentive audience!

Porter

Dexter (front) and Vaughan (back)

Max's design

Ben

Dexter's design

Elizabeth's bed that opens like a clam-shell

Max sharing his design with Elizabeth

Vaughan punching holes to allow for star gazing

Porter

Dexter

Hugo

Liam

Hata and Ben discussing his design

Norah and Leila peering at Norah's design

Norah's turn!

Vaughan

Elizabeth demonstrating how her clam-shell bed works

Max and Ben

On Friday, March 9th, Nina introduced students to the work of Antonio Gaudi, whose organic use of form created a stark contrast to more traditional architecture that emphasized the right angle. After showing students images of Gaudi's work, such as Casa Batllo and Sagrada Familia, Nina asked our students to design their own small architectural forms. She demonstrated how to hollow out the interior of the forms and how to add textures with a variety of tools. Jocelyne could not resist joining the students to design a form as well. Sooooo much fun!!!