BUILDING FOR SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY - Kennedy Bibliothek

community focal point and. the auditorium as a community theater. The gymnasium
is a third central place; arts and industrial crafts are grouped
into a fourth. Originally these special facilities were intended to form
a kind of neighbourhood commons, while the other educational spaces were
planned to be accommodated on the ground floor of high-rise and low-rise
buildings. (See Figure 11). This plan did not materialise for reasons
outlined below, but a similar plan has now been adopted.
Figure 11
ORIGINAL SITE PLAN FOR THE EVERYWHERE SCHOOL
132. In the meantime, the president of the University of Connecticut,.
Dr. Homer Babbidge, had helped the community to acquire and renovate an
old warehouse. Since 1968, the 10 000 sq. ft. (930 m ) facility has housed
SAND's offices, neighbourhood services, the first demonstration MIA (multiinstructional
area) and on the first floor the artist-in-residence studio.
SAND, the first neighbourhood development corporation in Connecticut, soon
learned what it meant to run a big, busy office, and how to get the
funding needed. The idea of sprinkling schoolrooms everywhere and rebuilding
an entire community around its schools met with widespread enthusiasm
and was published in many journals, reports and papers. Implementation
was, however, delayed again and again.
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