BUILDING FOR SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY - Kennedy Bibliothek

however, at the seam between large central city administrative buildings
and the small single family houses of the neighbourhood, agrees with both.
A network of pedestrian links from the neighbourhood to the center enhances
pedestrian access (see Figure 6). However, the lack of parking facilities
effectively prevents the multi-use of the facility. Occasional conference
gatherings which eliminated all parking areas for teachers and personnel,
are no longer allowed in the facilities (mainly the theatre or the
cafetorium) during the day (for the site plan of T.J. see,Figure 7).
Figure 7
SITE PLAN OF THOMAS JEFFERSON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
AND COMMUNITY CENTER, ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA
b) Overlap and Proximity of Various Uses
62. Characteristic for the architectural programming and design of the
large new educational and community centers was the opportunity to create
overlap and integration instead of a clean separation of functions. The
extent to which this opportunity could be seized, however, depended heavily
on the number and kind of future uses and users. The description of integrated
and co-operating community services (Table 3) shows that the HRC and
Dunbar are somewhat similar in the complexity of services offered while
T.J. has a less complex or varied structure. This applies to funding,
programming and physical structure. In terms of programming "shared use",
however, T.J. seems to get the most out of its facilities simply because
educational and recreational uses are highly compatible and it is easier
to co-ordinate two rather than a dozen agencies. From the very beginning,
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