Determining factors in the organization of the spaces in the teaching estates. A Cuban experience

Abstract

This work sets forth criteria on determining factors which influence the desing of buildings groups, focused on from the general and conceptual point of view and it points out several concepts and Instruments which allow measuring the relations between the components and the stages which constitute the process of designing educational building groups. As part of the work on these determinants, the following aspects are studied: - Analysis of criteria for the selection of sites: how this activity is carried out within the Cuban political and social framework. - Treatment of exterior spaces: as part of the organic interpretation between educational spaces and the remaining areas, for a greater participation in the social and educational life of the pupil and of other inhabitants of the school center. - Analysis for growth: from the urban scale to physical plant-type spaces. Growth is a point to be taken into account in the process of analyzing the building group design so that it could maintain its integrity, considering certain degrees of flexibility which would permit adaptation to prospective changes in educational Systems. These determinants can be interpreted and reflected in the examples which constitute a practical Cuban experiment.