With school shootings becoming a point of concern for many across the country, K-12 design methodologies are beginning to address the issue as well.
Fruitport High School in Fruitport, Michigan, for example, is undergoing a $48 million renovation project aimed at incorporating some of these design approaches. The new work "will add curved hallways to reduce a gunman’s range, jutting barriers to provide cover and egress, and meticulously spaced classrooms that can lock on demand and hide students in the corner, out of a killer’s sight," reports The Washington Post.
Speaking with The Washington Post, Matt Sagle of TowerPinkster, and an architect on the project, illustrated the project's "shadow zones," designed areas for students to hide in that are obstructed from a shooter's sight lines. TowerPinkster also designs prisons; Regarding the project, The Washington Post writes that Sagle "wanted to strike a balance between security and creating a welcoming presence without the pendulum swinging too far in either direction."
I mean this is super fucking depressing:
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"Guns don't kill people, people kill people." is a phrase I do not agree with, but it's interesting to note that it relies on the idea that we should fix ROOT CAUSES, not go after tertiary issues to offset the effect of the ROOT CAUSE.
Isn't hardening schools going after a tertiary issue?
Instead of hardening schools couldn't we harden our gun regulations?
I mean this is super fucking depressing:
it's all theater too. literally without any evidence of usefulness. just billable hours doing imaginary research.
You're an idiot.
Your blathering relies on semantics which do no service to the discussion. I'm not spending any more time debating someone who can't think beyond catchphrases handed to them by purveyors of murder tools.
"Guns are not designed to kill." -a very smart and not silly person
TowerPinkster also designs prisons
Those “shadow zones” and jutting barriers certainly won't provide cover for a shooter.
If there was a Nobel Prize for stupidity the people who thought this up would win.
Gun safety starts with healthy communities.
I design schools in the Seattle region. The biggest weakness I’ve seen is the front desk staff just letting people walk in, or they don’t have a visual of the doors as people walk in. A review of vestibules and sequence of entry can resolve unwanted individuals from getting all the way into the school - and it helps with energy code.
The other issue is access control - or the function of the door locks. The doors must be carefully coordinated by the architect and hardware consultant to prevent entry during school hours.
Weird shaped schools and corridors substantially increase the cost of the building and take away from a good, well-built, secure, learning environment.
#rickitect
This is so sad ...
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