NEW YORK—Light filters from the glass facade diagonally downward two levels into a room where children are busy designing islands.
The three-day course, Design Your Own Island, began on Tuesday, during a student vacation week. Tim Hayduk, lead design educator for the Center for Architecture Foundation, an educational nonprofit that conducts programs both inside and outside of school, conceived the course, partly inspired by “the delicate terrain” on Deer Island, Maine during a trip.
Hayduk said another “part of it came out of the idea that some kids get to go away for break and some don’t.”
Hayduk was concerned the academic portion of the course—including discussing contours on topographical maps—may be a bit too much.
Yet, at least one youth got it.
“When the lines are closer together on a 2-D map, that means it’s steeper,” said Julia, a fourth-grader at Manhattan Country School. “When the lines are further apart, they’re flat.”
