✎ Karina Tang

Is an architect with an interest in preservation and maintenance. She recently graduated from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design.


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Yoshida School, 2016

education, circulation, loose-fit spaces

Yoshida School is a proposal for an alternative school, sited in the mountains east of Kyoto, Japan.

Taking the large population of student commuters and the tendency to consider commuting in temporal (rather than spatial terms), the project used the traversing of a fixed distance to manage the schedule of the school. One loop through the building takes roughly 5 minutes at walking speed, defining an 'active space' measured by time.

The building prioritises self-guided learning for different group sizes for learning. A schedule can be superimposed over the plan to show both time and place of a student in a day.

Exploded axonometric of Yoshida School
First (ground) floor plan with superimposed schedule of three students
Short section and surroundings
Use of spaces in Yoshida's School
Typical classroom setting
Typical self-study setting
Axonometric of Yoshida's school
Flow studies
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