Northlands School
Nordelta
Suburban Buenos Aires
Argentina

Design intent: Energetic learning space appropriately reflecting its inhabitants through expressive gestures and lively color selection.

Challenge: Learn and use Autodesk Revit and the metric system.

Concept approach: Tango and the use of musicality in terms of structure.
Musicality: To see the music; dancing to the emotion and speed of tango.

In tango, there are many variations to steps but all with a common purpose. This familiar thread is the improvisation of a range of steps and the universal language of direct nonverbal communication.

Both tango and education focus on giving loose guidelines to the raw development of human interaction. Using this connection as a springboard for the design, the elements and movement of tango can be visually translated to express the core rhetoric of honed energy. Through the use of tango steps as a visual guide, the design is transformed into a dynamic space that reflects this positive idiom.

The color palate was derived from the district of La Boca in Buenos Aires: one of the oldest, most colorful and lively sector of the city.