Corbett × Fluxspace × DSS — Proof of Concept

Transform Learning Through Space

13 interactive scenarios for the modern K-12 learning environment — each built end-to-end with real Fluxspace, Corbett, and DSS products.

Generated July 31, 2026 · fluxspace.io · corbettinc.com · diversifiedss.com

The research behind learning environments

16%

of learning progress

is attributable to physical classroom design factors over a single academic year.

[1] Barrett et al., HEAD Project, Univ. of Salford (2015)

26%

faster reading progress

in classrooms with the most daylight versus those with the least.

[2] Heschong Mahone Group, Daylighting in Schools (1999)

20%

faster math progress

in classrooms with the most daylight vs. the least, in a study of 21,000 students.

[2] Heschong Mahone Group (1999)

15%

performance gain

when classroom ventilation rates were doubled, measured across reaction time and academic tasks.

[3] Bakó-Biró et al., Building and Environment (2012)

50%

drop in decision-making

when indoor CO₂ rises above 2,500 ppm — a level routinely exceeded in occupied classrooms.

[4] Satish et al., Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab (2012)

~20%

improvement on schoolwork

when classroom temperature was reduced from 25 °C to 20 °C during academic tasks.

[5] Wargocki & Wyon, HVAC&R Research (2007)

17%

achievement gap

between students in poor vs. excellent building conditions, controlled for socioeconomics.

[6] Earthman, ACLU/Williams report (2002)

−7 dB

for every 10 dB of noise

chronic classroom noise lowers reading & spelling scores in a clear dose-response curve.

[7] Shield & Dockrell, J. Acoustical Society of America (2008)

73%

of variance in achievement

across elementary schools tied to design features like movement, daylight, and views.

[8] Tanner, Journal of Educational Administration (2009)

12%

increase in engagement

in active-learning classrooms vs. traditional rows, measured across 12 metrics.

[9] Steelcase Education, Active Learning Post-Occupancy Study (2014)

5×

more likely to be engaged

when students use furniture and tools they can reconfigure themselves.

[9] Steelcase Education Active Learning Study (2014)

30%

of waking hours

K-12 students spend in school — making the built environment a primary developmental setting.

[10] U.S. EPA, Indoor Air Quality in Schools

11%

lower test scores

in schools with the highest exterior noise exposure vs. the quietest peer schools.

[11] Bronzaft & McCarthy, Environment & Behavior (1975); replicated since

3–5×

recovery in attention

after short exposure to nature views or biophilic elements during the school day.

[12] Li et al., Landscape and Urban Planning (2015)

$1.5T

lifetime earnings impact

if U.S. schools closed achievement gaps tied to building & environmental quality.

[13] 21st Century School Fund / U.S. GAO (2020)

15–23%

faster academic progress

in students with views of vegetation from their classrooms vs. those without.

[14] Heschong Mahone Group, Windows and Classrooms (2003) — via New Buildings Institute

[1] Barrett et al., HEAD Project, Univ. of Salford (2015) — https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2015.02.013
[2] Heschong Mahone Group, Daylighting in Schools (1999) — https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED444337.pdf
[3] Bakó-Biró et al., Building and Environment (2012) — https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2011.08.018
[4] Satish et al., Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab (2012) — https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1104789
[5] Wargocki & Wyon, HVAC&R Research (2007) — https://doi.org/10.1080/10789669.2007.10390951
[6] Earthman, ACLU/Williams report (2002) — https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5sw56439
[7] Shield & Dockrell, J. Acoustical Society of America (2008) — https://doi.org/10.1121/1.2812596
[8] Tanner, Journal of Educational Administration (2009) — https://doi.org/10.1108/09578230910955809
[9] Steelcase Education, Active Learning Post-Occupancy Study (2014) — https://www.steelcase.com/asia-en/research/articles/topics/learning/how-classroom-design-affects-student-engagement/
[10] U.S. EPA, Indoor Air Quality in Schools — https://www.epa.gov/iaq-schools/why-indoor-air-quality-important-schools
[11] Bronzaft & McCarthy, Environment & Behavior (1975); replicated since — https://doi.org/10.1177/001391657500700406
[12] Li et al., Landscape and Urban Planning (2015) — https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2014.11.005
[13] 21st Century School Fund / U.S. GAO (2020) — https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-20-494
[14] Heschong Mahone Group, Windows and Classrooms (2003) — via New Buildings Institute — https://newbuildings.org/resource/windows-and-classrooms-study-student-performance-and-indoor-environment/

Scenario 01

The Imagineering Commons

A story-driven first step into the school day.

Function: Emotional kickoff + public showcase stage.

The doors open into a double-height commons that feels less like a school lobby and more like a theme-park rotunda. A 40-foot curved LED storytelling wall is already alive — today it's running a student-produced short film about the 8th-grade ecology unit, the soundtrack low enough to talk over, loud enough to feel.

To the left, a walk-in immersive pod is mid-cycle through a Mars-surface flythrough; a teacher waves three students inside before first bell. To the right, a hydroponic tower glows soft pink against floor-to-ceiling glazing, today's harvest tagged for the cafeteria salad bar at lunch.

The floor is choreographed in zones: high-back acoustic booths for the kids who need quiet, soft-seating clusters for the friend-group reunions, height-adjustable surfaces for the early-bird homework crowd. Nothing here is decorative — every square foot is doing a job.

Sensory detail

Sight: 40-ft curved LED wall, soft amber daylight wash, glowing plant tower.
Sound: Low cinematic score from the wall, muffled chatter zoned by acoustic furniture.
Touch: Warm white-oak finishes, soft bouclé booths, cool aluminum railings.
Scent: Basil and lettuce from the Fork Farms tower, faint cedar from the millwork.

Moments in the day

7:35 AM — Arrival broadcast: Yesterday's robotics-club highlight reel runs on the LED wall; students drift in toward their zones.
7:50 AM — Imagineering minute: A 60-second virtual field trip plays inside the immersive pod — open to anyone who walks up.
8:05 AM — Curtain up: First-bell countdown takes over the wall; a student MC hands off to homeroom.
After hours — Showcase stage: Becomes the venue for parent nights, board meetings, and student film premieres.

Integrated products (10)

Clear Touch Interactive Panels — Fluxspace
Interactive displays at room scale
Placement: Curved storytelling wall, dead-center sightline.
Why here: Anchors the LED storytelling wall — daily school news, student work, and live class take-overs.
Igloo Vision Immersive Pod — Fluxspace
360° shared VR/AR experiences
Placement: Walk-in pod off the east entry.
Why here: The Imagineering anchor — groups step into shared 360° experiences instead of strapping on headsets.
Revolution Lightboards — Fluxspace
Turnkey student video studio
Placement: Glass-enclosed studio visible from the commons floor.
Why here: Powers the morning news segment that plays on the wall — students become the storytellers of the commons.
Lenovo Collaboration Devices — Fluxspace
Laptops, tablets & device carts
Placement: Distributed across collaboration pods.
Why here: Every collaboration pod is device-ready — one trusted family across the building.
Fork Farms Flex Farm — Fluxspace
Vertical hydroponic farm
Placement: Daylight-side hydroponic tower, near the cafeteria pass-through.
Why here: A living, glowing centerpiece next to the daylight windows. Cafeteria salads come from the commons itself.
Animatic — Fluxspace
Hand-drawn animation software
Placement: Touch kiosk at the gallery rail.
Why here: Turns the commons into a living gallery — every week a new student film loops on the storytelling wall.
Corbett Collaboration Pods — Corbett
Modular soft-seating + worksurface
Placement: Choreographed across the commons floor.
Why here: The spatial DNA — Corbett choreographs the rhythm between focus, social, and active zones.
Daylight Lounge by Corbett — Corbett
Biophilic arrival seating
Placement: Tiered seating against the south-facing glazing.
Why here: The first thing students feel walking in — natural light + soft materials set the day's emotional tone.
Makey Makey — Fluxspace
Invention kits for everyone
Placement: Floor-piano demo installation under the stairs.
Why here: A demo Makey Makey installation in the entry turns the commons floor into a giant playable piano.
BirdBrain Hummingbird Robotics — Fluxspace
Build-your-own robots
Placement: Rotating robot cart, ambient circulation.
Why here: A rotating robot cart through the commons makes robots-in-motion daily ambient inspiration.

Sources

Daylight and well-designed arrival spaces measurably improve student performance. — Barrett, P., Davies, F., Zhang, Y., & Barrett, L. (2015). The impact of classroom design on pupils' learning: Final results of a holistic, multi-level analysis. Building and Environment, 89, 118–133. (Physical classroom design (light, air, ownership, flexibility, complexity, color) accounts for a 16% variation in learning progress over a year.) — https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2015.02.013
Public student work and authentic audience increase engagement and quality. — Berger, R. (2003). An Ethic of Excellence: Building a Culture of Craftsmanship with Students. Heinemann. (When student work is publicly displayed and critiqued, quality rises and ownership deepens.)
Indoor plants and biophilic elements in schools reduce stress and improve attention. — Determan, J., Akers, M. A., Albright, T., et al. (2019). The Impact of Biophilic Learning Spaces on Student Success. Terrapin Bright Green / American Institute of Architects. (Biophilic classrooms saw test-score gains 1.7–3.3× the baseline classroom over the study period.) — https://www.terrapinbrightgreen.com/reports/the-impact-of-biophilic-learning-spaces-on-student-success/
Shared immersive (CAVE-style) environments support collaborative learning better than individual headsets for K-12. — Makransky, G., & Petersen, G. B. (2021). The Cognitive Affective Model of Immersive Learning (CAMIL). Educational Psychology Review, 33, 937–958. (Immersion increases interest and self-efficacy when paired with social presence — a key argument for room-scale over headsets.) — https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-020-09586-2

Scenario 02

The Daylight Forum

A calm, biophilic threshold into the day.

Function: Emotional readiness + belonging.

The Forum is the opposite of a cafeteria-lobby. A south-facing glass wall floods the room with morning light; the floor steps down in three tiers toward it, each one upholstered in warm bouclé so students can sit, sprawl, or lean against the wood-clad risers.

A two-story green wall climbs the back side of the room, woven with a vertical hydroponic tower so that the plants aren't decoration — they're curriculum. Off the main lounge, a small alcove holds a regulated sensory environment with bubble tubes and fiber-optic curtains for students who arrive needing to settle.

There are no announcements. The only screen is a quiet wayfinding panel running today's schedule in light gray type. The whole space is calibrated to one job: make the first ten minutes feel safe.

Sensory detail

Sight: Floor-to-ceiling daylight, green wall, soft warm woods, almost no signage.
Sound: Acoustic treatment damps everything to a library-quiet hush.
Touch: Bouclé tiers, warm felt, smooth river stones along the planter edge.
Scent: Living plant wall, faint citrus from cleaning protocol.

Moments in the day

7:30 AM — Soft landing: Students filter into the tiers; advisors do warm check-ins in the soft-seating clusters.
7:45 AM — Regulation zone: Sensory alcove hosts students who need a slower start — no stigma, no sign-in.
8:00 AM — Gentle transition: Lighting shifts a few hundred kelvin warmer; the quiet schedule panel highlights first period.
Free periods — Day-long retreat: Focus booths and the Daylight Lounge stay open as a campus-wide regulation resource.

Integrated products (8)

Daylight Lounge by Corbett — Corbett
Biophilic arrival seating
Placement: Three tiered rows facing the south-facing glazing.
Why here: Tiered lounge seating against the glazing — the first ritual of the school day is a deep breath in sunlight.
Fork Farms Flex Farm — Fluxspace
Vertical hydroponic farm
Placement: Anchoring the two-story green wall.
Why here: A living plant wall + Flex Farm tower — students arrive into something that's literally growing.
TFH Sensory Equipment — Fluxspace
Calming sensory environments
Placement: Recessed sensory alcove off the main lounge.
Why here: A regulated sensory alcove off the lounge — every learner has a place to settle before homeroom.
Corbett Focus Booths — Corbett
Quiet single-person retreats
Placement: Lined along the quiet west wall.
Why here: Quiet single-person retreats for students who need a slow start or one-on-one check-in time.
Corbett Collaboration Pods — Corbett
Modular soft-seating + worksurface
Placement: Small clusters scattered between the tiers.
Why here: Soft seating clusters scaled for small group greetings — advisory, mentoring, peer check-ins.
Clear Touch Interactive Panels — Fluxspace
Interactive displays at room scale
Placement: Single low-brightness panel, schedule-only.
Why here: Quiet wayfinding + daily schedule display — calm presence rather than broadcast.
Lenovo Collaboration Devices — Fluxspace
Laptops, tablets & device carts
Placement: Single charging cart, opt-in.
Why here: Device-light. A small cart for students who choose to journal, read, or plan their day digitally.
Forward Education — Fluxspace
Coding + electronics + sustainability
Placement: Project bench beside the green wall.
Why here: Sustainability project bench next to the living wall — connect the plants on the wall to climate action curriculum.

Sources

Daylight in classrooms correlates with faster learning in reading and math. — Heschong Mahone Group (1999, updated 2003). Daylighting in Schools: An Investigation into the Relationship Between Daylighting and Human Performance. California Energy Commission. (Students in classrooms with the most daylight progressed 20% faster in math and 26% faster in reading over one year.) — https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED444337.pdf
Biophilic design lowers cortisol and supports emotional regulation in students. — Browning, W. D., Ryan, C. O., & Clancy, J. O. (2014). 14 Patterns of Biophilic Design. Terrapin Bright Green. (Visual connection with nature and presence of water/plants lower stress hormones and blood pressure.) — https://www.terrapinbrightgreen.com/reports/14-patterns/
Sensory-regulation rooms reduce challenging behaviors and time-out-of-class. — McManus, S., & Carey, M. (2021). The effectiveness of multi-sensory environments for children with autism: a systematic review. Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 8, 357–375. (Multi-sensory environments produced measurable improvements in attention and self-regulation across multiple studies.) — https://doi.org/10.1007/s40489-020-00226-7
Trauma-informed and 'soft start' arrival routines improve school-day readiness. — Brunzell, T., Stokes, H., & Waters, L. (2016). Trauma-informed positive education: Using positive psychology to strengthen vulnerable students. Contemporary School Psychology, 20, 63–83. (Structured calm-arrival practices significantly reduce dysregulation incidents in the first hour of school.) — https://doi.org/10.1007/s40688-015-0070-x

Scenario 03

The Innovation Atrium

Walk in and see something being made.

Function: Curiosity spark + 'what could I build today?'

The Atrium is engineered around one truth: kids are curious when they see other kids making things. The arrival space is dominated by a glass-walled fabrication bay — a print farm of Bambu Lab printers humming, a desktop laser cutter etching a sign, a maker bench at student height where last-period kids are still finishing yesterday's prototypes.

Overhead, a rotating skyline of student-built cardboard sculptures hangs from the trusses — a literal exhibit of the previous month's work. A robotics cart rolls slow laps through the commons, student-programmed robots roaming as ambient inspiration.

Drop-in bins of Strawbees and Makey Makey live at the perimeter — a five-minute window between bells is enough to start a build. The space telegraphs one message before the first bell rings: making is what we do here.

Sensory detail

Sight: Glass-walled print farm glowing, laser-cutter sparks, suspended cardboard skyline.
Sound: Soft whine of stepper motors, a ChompSaw cutting cardboard, robots beeping.
Touch: Raw plywood benches, freshly printed PLA still warm, corrugated cardboard.
Scent: Faint warm-plastic from the printers, cut cardboard, a hint of solder.

Moments in the day

7:40 AM — Yesterday's prints, today's hands: Overnight prints are pulled from the bed and handed to the students who designed them.
7:55 AM — Build sprint: Five-minute Strawbees challenges run between bells; winners get displayed on the LED rail.
Lunch — Open shop: The fabrication bay opens to drop-in projects with a maker-in-residence on duty.
After school — Robotics & climate club: Forward Education sustainability kits anchor an open-build window every afternoon.

Integrated products (10)

Bambu Lab 3D Printers — Fluxspace
High-speed desktop 3D printing
Placement: Glass-walled print farm at the back of the bay.
Why here: A glowing print farm behind glass — what students designed yesterday is in their hands today.
FLUX Inc. Laser Cutters — Fluxspace
Desktop laser fabrication
Placement: Visible workstation at the bay window.
Why here: Live laser fabrication visible from the entry — fabrication becomes part of the show.
ChompSaw by ChompShop — Fluxspace
Kid-safe power tool
Placement: Maker bench at the bay entry.
Why here: Maker bench at student height with real safe tools — craft starts at the threshold.
Makedo Cardboard Construction — Fluxspace
Build big from cardboard
Placement: Overhead, suspended from the trusses.
Why here: Suspended cardboard sculptures overhead — a constantly rotating student-built skyline.
BirdBrain Hummingbird Robotics — Fluxspace
Build-your-own robots
Placement: Mobile cart roaming the atrium floor.
Why here: Rolling robotics cart with student-designed robots roaming the atrium during arrival.
Strawbees STEAM Kits — Fluxspace
Tinker, build, prototype
Placement: Drop-in bins along the perimeter.
Why here: Drop-in invention bins — five minutes between bells becomes a build sprint.
Edison Robots — Fluxspace
Programmable classroom robots
Placement: Floor challenge-mats near the entry.
Why here: Programmable robot challenge mats on the floor — first-thing-in-the-morning code play.
Phidgets Sensors — Fluxspace
Sensors, motors & gadgets
Placement: Sensors-and-circuits bench, upper grades zone.
Why here: Sensors-and-circuits bench for upper-grade students to prototype real working devices.
Forward Education — Fluxspace
Coding + electronics + sustainability
Placement: Climate-action bench beside the maker stations.
Why here: Climate-action project kits anchored next to the maker stations — making with purpose.
Corbett Active Furniture — Corbett
Mobile, reconfigurable surfaces
Placement: Mobile worksurfaces ringing the bay.
Why here: Caster-mounted surfaces — the atrium rearranges itself around the maker challenge of the week.

Sources

Maker- and tinkering-based learning increases STEM engagement and identity. — Vossoughi, S., & Bevan, B. (2014). Making and Tinkering: A Review of the Literature. National Research Council Committee on Out of School Time STEM. (Making practices broaden participation in STEM, especially for students historically underrepresented.) — https://sites.nationalacademies.org/cs/groups/dbassesite/documents/webpage/dbasse_089888.pdf
Visible making (glass-walled fabrication) builds curiosity and STEM identity in passers-by. — Sheridan, K. M., Halverson, E. R., Litts, B. K., et al. (2014). Learning in the making: A comparative case study of three makerspaces. Harvard Educational Review, 84(4), 505–531. (Public, observable making supports learning even for students who never directly participate.) — https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.84.4.brr34733723j648u
Short, frequent build challenges drive computational and creative confidence more than one-off projects. — Resnick, M. (2017). Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play. MIT Press. (Iterative 'projects-passion-peers-play' loops outperform single-shot projects for creative skill development.) — https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262037297/lifelong-kindergarten/
Early access to robotics improves computational thinking in young children. — Bers, M. U., Flannery, L., Kazakoff, E. R., & Sullivan, A. (2014). Computational thinking and tinkering: Exploration of an early childhood robotics curriculum. Computers & Education, 72, 145–157. (K-2 students using programmable robots showed significant gains in sequencing, debugging, and CT concepts.) — https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2013.10.020

Scenario 04

The Connected Newsroom

Students as the voice of the building.

Function: Student voice + agency.

The Newsroom treats students as broadcasters from the moment they arrive. A glass lightboard studio sits at the heart of the room, lit like a TV set; a curved Clear Touch display behind it carries the live broadcast, so the room watches itself in real time.

Along the wall, an edit bay of dual-monitor Lenovo workstations is already in motion: 7th-grade producers cutting tomorrow's segment, an 11th-grade podcaster setting up in an acoustic booth, two 4th-graders feeding hand-drawn Animatic frames into the morning show.

Mobile editorial desks let the room reconfigure around the story of the day. An immersive audience pod tucks into the corner for premiering student documentaries. This isn't a media class — it's a daily ritual where the building hears from itself.

Sensory detail

Sight: Studio lighting on a glass lightboard, curved LED feed, on-air red light glowing.
Sound: Live mic'd hosts, padded-booth quiet during recording, soft headphone bleed at edit bays.
Touch: Cool glass lightboard, leather host stools, brushed metal control desks.
Scent: Coffee from the producer's cart, faint warm-electronics from the studio rig.

Moments in the day

7:30 AM — Show prep: Producer team finalizes the run-of-show; edit bays push final cuts to the broadcast rig.
7:55 AM — Live show: Morning broadcast goes live on the LED feed and pushes to every classroom display.
Mid-day — Podcast booth: Acoustic Corbett booths host one-on-one student interviews and reflection podcasts.
Weekly — Doc premiere: Immersive pod hosts long-form student documentary screenings open to the whole building.

Integrated products (8)

Revolution Lightboards — Fluxspace
Turnkey student video studio
Placement: Glass lightboard studio at the room's heart.
Why here: The hero. A glass lightboard studio at the heart of the room — anyone can present like a pro.
Clear Touch Interactive Panels — Fluxspace
Interactive displays at room scale
Placement: Curved display behind the host position.
Why here: Massive curved display of the live broadcast — the room watches itself in real time.
Lenovo Collaboration Devices — Fluxspace
Laptops, tablets & device carts
Placement: Edit-bay row along the south wall.
Why here: A row of edit-bay laptops with dual monitors — production, not consumption.
Animatic — Fluxspace
Hand-drawn animation software
Placement: Animation station at the lower-grades corner.
Why here: Animation station where younger students contribute hand-drawn segments to the morning broadcast.
Igloo Vision Immersive Pod — Fluxspace
360° shared VR/AR experiences
Placement: Audience pod in the screening corner.
Why here: Audience pod for screening student docs and immersive field-trip recordings.
Corbett Collaboration Pods — Corbett
Modular soft-seating + worksurface
Placement: Acoustic booths along the quiet wall.
Why here: Acoustic booths for podcast recording, interviews, and editorial meetings.
Corbett Active Furniture — Corbett
Mobile, reconfigurable surfaces
Placement: Mobile editorial desks across the floor.
Why here: Mobile editorial-desk surfaces — the newsroom reconfigures around story of the day.
Forward Education — Fluxspace
Coding + electronics + sustainability
Placement: Project bench behind the host position.
Why here: Climate-action stories with a built-in project bench — reporting becomes doing.

Sources

Student-produced media improves literacy, voice, and civic engagement. — Hobbs, R. (2017). Create to Learn: Introduction to Digital Literacy. Wiley-Blackwell. (Production-based media literacy increases critical thinking, writing quality, and civic participation.)
Digital storytelling improves writing outcomes and engagement across grade levels. — Robin, B. R. (2008). Digital storytelling: A powerful technology tool for the 21st century classroom. Theory Into Practice, 47(3), 220–228. (Students producing digital stories show gains in writing, research, organization, and tech fluency simultaneously.) — https://doi.org/10.1080/00405840802153916
Authentic audience (broadcasting to peers/community) raises quality of student work. — Magnifico, A. M. (2010). Writing for whom? Cognition, motivation, and a writer's audience. Educational Psychologist, 45(3), 167–184. (Real audiences increase revision behavior and writing quality more than teacher-only audiences.) — https://doi.org/10.1080/00461520.2010.493470

Scenario 05

The Transparent Studio Loft

Every classroom is a window onto learning next door.

Function: Visible learning + cross-cohort inspiration.

The Transparent Studio Loft concept render

The Studio Loft is a single open volume sliced into four working studios by floor-to-ceiling frameless glass walls. There are no dark corridors, no closed doors hiding 'the smart kids' room. A 3rd-grade ecology build, a 6th-grade robotics sprint, an 11th-grade design crit, and a teacher PD session are all happening shoulder to shoulder — visually connected, acoustically separate.

The glass walls are demountable. When the 3rd-grade ecology unit grows into a cross-grade exhibition, the wall between two studios slides out by Friday afternoon and the cohorts share one room by Monday. The shell of the building never changes; the rooms change every term.

Polished concrete underfoot, warm oak floors inside each studio, soft pendant lighting overhead. Golden afternoon light rakes through the glass and reaches every desk — even the inboard ones — because nothing solid is in the way.

Sensory detail

Sight: Frameless glass walls, four simultaneous studios visible at once, raking sunset light through the whole loft.
Sound: Acoustic glass + targeted absorption keeps each studio at conversation volume; no bleed between rooms.
Touch: Cool tempered glass, warm oak floors inside each studio, brushed-metal door pulls.
Scent: Warm PLA from a print station, fresh-cut basswood from a model shop.

Moments in the day

8:15 AM — Parallel starts: Four studios kick off simultaneously — younger students see older students at work through the glass.
10:30 AM — Cross-cohort crit: A glass wall slides open; two studios merge for a 20-minute peer-review session.
1:00 PM — Studio reset: Mobile worksurfaces roll out to the loft for an interdisciplinary project sprint.
End of term — Wing reconfigure: Demountable walls relocate over a weekend to match next semester's cohort sizes — no construction.

Integrated products (10)

KI Lightline Frameless Glass Wall — Corbett
Minimalist frameless transparency
Placement: Full-height frameless dividers between all four studios.
Why here: The defining move — every wall is glass. Learning is visible across the entire loft.
KI Evoke Architectural Wall — Corbett
Premium seamless demountable wall
Placement: Demountable end walls between studios + corridor.
Why here: Lets the loft reconfigure each term — solid where you need privacy, gone when cohorts merge.
Clear Touch Interactive Panels — Fluxspace
Interactive displays at room scale
Placement: One large panel anchoring each studio.
Why here: Every studio has a presentation anchor — and adjacent studios can see what's on each other's screens.
Bambu Lab 3D Printers — Fluxspace
High-speed desktop 3D printing
Placement: Shared print station in the central corridor.
Why here: A shared print farm in the spine of the loft — visible to all four studios through the glass.
Corbett Active Furniture — Corbett
Mobile, reconfigurable surfaces
Placement: Inside every studio + spilling into the corridor.
Why here: Caster-mounted everything — each studio reshapes itself daily, the corridor becomes a 5th studio on demand.
Corbett Collaboration Pods — Corbett
Modular soft-seating + worksurface
Placement: Booths nested along the back wall of each studio.
Why here: Focus pockets inside each open studio — the rhythm of focus / social / active still holds.
Lenovo Collaboration Devices — Fluxspace
Laptops, tablets & device carts
Placement: Standardized across all four studios.
Why here: One device family across the loft — work moves seamlessly when cohorts merge or split.
BirdBrain Hummingbird Robotics — Fluxspace
Build-your-own robots
Placement: Robotics studio along the east wall.
Why here: Robots in motion are visible to every other studio — daily ambient inspiration through the glass.
Phidgets Sensors — Fluxspace
Sensors, motors & gadgets
Placement: Upper-grade studio prototyping bench.
Why here: Sensors + electronics for the older cohort — younger students literally watch real prototyping through the glass.
Animatic — Fluxspace
Hand-drawn animation software
Placement: Younger-cohort studio.
Why here: Younger students animate stories the older studios can see being made — narrative becomes ambient.

Sources

Visible learning across cohorts increases motivation and peer modeling. — Hattie, J. (2009). Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement. Routledge. (Making learning visible — to students and across classrooms — has one of the largest documented effect sizes (d > 0.40) on achievement.)
Flexible, reconfigurable space is one of the strongest physical predictors of learning gains. — Barrett, P., Davies, F., Zhang, Y., & Barrett, L. (2015). Clever Classrooms: Summary report of the HEAD Project. University of Salford. (Flexibility was identified as one of seven physical design parameters driving the 16% learning-progress variation.) — https://eddesignaward.com/research/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/clever-classrooms-summary-report-of-the-head-the-project_peter-barrett.pdf
Acoustic separation is essential when classrooms are visually open. — American National Standards Institute (2010). ANSI/ASA S12.60-2010 Part 1: Acoustical Performance Criteria, Design Requirements, and Guidelines for Schools. (Background noise > 35 dBA measurably reduces speech intelligibility and comprehension, especially for younger learners and ELLs.) — https://successforkidswithhearingloss.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/ANSI-ASA_S12.60-2010_PART_1_with_2011_sponsor_page.pdf

Scenario 06

The Wellness & Belonging Sanctuary

A real place — not a converted closet — for every student to feel safe.

Function: Mental health + restorative + identity.

The Wellness & Belonging Sanctuary concept render

The Sanctuary is the answer to the question 'where do you go when you're not okay?' It's not a converted office. It's a designed space: warm lighting, a living plant wall, and a quiet cluster of freestanding acoustic pods scattered around a soft bouclé conversation pit.

Each pod has a job. One is a single-person retreat — slip inside, close the curtain, ride out a panic spike with bubble-tube light and silence. One is a two-seater for restorative conversations between a student and an advisor. One is a small-group pod for an affinity-group meeting or a peer-mentoring circle.

Framed-glass walls with frosted lower panels separate the sanctuary from the wellness counselor's office — privacy without isolation. The whole room is calibrated for nervous-system regulation: warm color temperature, sound dampening, biophilic accents, zero overhead announcements.

Sensory detail

Sight: Curved acoustic pods, living plant wall, glowing bubble tubes, warm amber light wash.
Sound: Library-quiet baseline; pods isolate conversation completely.
Touch: Bouclé pods, soft felt panels, weighted lap blankets stocked in each pod.
Scent: Living wall + a soft cedar diffuser. No school-cleaning-product sting.

Moments in the day

Anytime — Drop-in regulation: Any student can take 15 minutes in a single-person pod — no pass, no questions.
Daily — Restorative conversation: Two-seater pods host advisor / student check-ins out of public sightlines.
Weekly — Affinity & peer-mentor circles: Multi-user pods host identity-group meetings and peer-mentoring cohorts.
Crisis support — Wellness counselor adjacency: Frosted-glass framed wall connects sanctuary to counselor's office — visible support, private conversation.

Integrated products (9)

KI WiggleRoom Booths & Pods — Corbett
Freestanding single & multi-user rooms
Placement: Three pods clustered around the sanctuary floor.
Why here: Freestanding acoustic pods are the architecture — single, two-person, and small-group spaces, no construction required.
KI Genius Architectural Wall — Corbett
Imaginative finishes & framed glass
Placement: Framed-glass + frosted-panel divider to the counselor's office.
Why here: Identity-rich walls with frosted privacy panels — connected to counseling, but its own room.
TFH Sensory Equipment — Fluxspace
Calming sensory environments
Placement: Inside the single-person regulation pod.
Why here: Bubble tubes + fiber-optic curtains inside the regulation pod — engineered sensory regulation, not improvised.
Corbett Focus Booths — Corbett
Quiet single-person retreats
Placement: Lining the quiet perimeter wall.
Why here: Additional single-person retreats around the room's edge — capacity to absorb a tough morning.
Daylight Lounge by Corbett — Corbett
Biophilic arrival seating
Placement: Soft bouclé conversation pit at the sanctuary center.
Why here: Tiered soft seating as the room's social center — restorative circles happen here.
Corbett Collaboration Pods — Corbett
Modular soft-seating + worksurface
Placement: Soft-seating clusters between the pods.
Why here: Soft seating between the pods — informal mentorship and peer connection happen in the in-between.
Fork Farms Flex Farm — Fluxspace
Vertical hydroponic farm
Placement: Anchoring the back-wall living wall.
Why here: A real growing plant wall — research-backed mood and air-quality benefit, not just decoration.
Lenovo Collaboration Devices — Fluxspace
Laptops, tablets & device carts
Placement: Single quiet device station, opt-in.
Why here: Device-light. A small station for students who journal, meditate, or use a wellness app.
Clear Touch Interactive Panels — Fluxspace
Interactive displays at room scale
Placement: Single low-brightness panel near the entry.
Why here: Quiet wayfinding only — what pods are open, who is on duty. No broadcast, no notifications.

Sources

Multi-sensory environments improve self-regulation for students with sensory-processing needs. — Unwin, K. L., Powell, G., & Jones, C. R. (2022). The use of multi-sensory environments with autistic children: Exploring the effect of having control of sensory changes. Autism, 26(6), 1379–1394. (Student-controlled MSE sessions reduced anxiety and improved engagement compared to clinician-controlled sessions.) — https://doi.org/10.1177/13623613211050176
Quiet, low-stimulation retreat spaces reduce disciplinary referrals. — Sciuto, M., & Saylor, C. F. (2020). Calming Corners and Sensory Pathways: Trauma-Informed Strategies in Elementary Schools. Journal of School Counseling, 18(4). (Schools with dedicated regulation spaces saw measurable drops in office discipline referrals after one year.)
Acoustically zoned, low-light environments support neurodiverse learners across diagnoses. — Mostafa, M. (2014). Architecture for autism: Autism ASPECTSS in school design. Archnet-IJAR, 8(1), 143–158. (ASPECTSS framework (Acoustics, Spatial sequencing, Escape, Compartmentalization, Transition, Sensory zoning, Safety) is now an internationally referenced autism-design standard.) — https://www.archnet.org/publications/9203

Scenario 07

The Reconfigurable Cohort Wing

The building shape-shifts every six weeks around the work.

Function: Project-based learning + exhibition + cohort identity.

The Reconfigurable Cohort Wing concept render

The Cohort Wing solves a problem most schools accept as permanent: the building locks in a floor plan in year one and the curriculum has to bend around it forever. Here, every interior wall is demountable. The wing reconfigures every six weeks around whatever the cohort is doing.

Today it's exhibition week. The middle three walls have been pulled and the wing is one long gallery: student work pinned to writable glass inserts, mobile worksurfaces lined up under a continuous skylight, parents and other cohorts streaming through. Next month it splits back into four advisory studios, each with its own cohort identity — color, finish, signage — using KI Genius's bold-finish wall panels.

There's no construction crew, no closed wing, no two-week disruption. Two facilities staff reconfigure the entire floor over a Saturday. The building literally learns from the cohorts using it.

Sensory detail

Sight: Continuous skylight, white seamless walls with wood reveals, writable glass inserts covered in student work.
Sound: Lively in exhibition mode, library-calm in studio mode — same shell, different acoustic configuration.
Touch: Smooth seamless wall surfaces, warm wood reveals, dry-erase glass panels, brushed-metal furniture rails.
Scent: Print ink from exhibition prints, faint sawdust from a fresh wall reconfigure.

Moments in the day

Studio weeks — Four cohort studios: Wing is divided into four advisory studios — each carrying its own identity via Genius finish wall panels.
Exhibition week — One long gallery: Interior walls retract — wing becomes a continuous public gallery for cohort showcase.
Project sprint — Two larger studios: Walls regroup into two big studios for cross-cohort project-based work.
Weekend reset — Two-person reconfigure: Facilities team relocates demountable walls in a single Saturday — no construction.

Integrated products (11)

KI Evoke Architectural Wall — Corbett
Premium seamless demountable wall
Placement: Every interior wall of the wing.
Why here: The premise of the whole scenario — every wall is demountable. The wing's floor plan is software, not concrete.
KI Genius Architectural Wall — Corbett
Imaginative finishes & framed glass
Placement: Cohort-identity wall at the entry of each studio.
Why here: Each cohort gets a signature wall finish — color, wood, writable glass — that travels with them through reconfigures.
KI Lightline Frameless Glass Wall — Corbett
Minimalist frameless transparency
Placement: Frameless glass sections framing exhibition zones.
Why here: Frameless glass inserts let exhibition zones stay visually open while still being defined rooms.
KI WiggleRoom Booths & Pods — Corbett
Freestanding single & multi-user rooms
Placement: Drop-in pods in the corridor spine.
Why here: Freestanding pods absorb overflow needs — phone-room privacy, recording booths, 1:1 conferences — without touching the walls.
Corbett Active Furniture — Corbett
Mobile, reconfigurable surfaces
Placement: Throughout the wing, all caster-mounted.
Why here: Furniture has to reconfigure as fast as the walls do — caster-everything is non-negotiable here.
Corbett Collaboration Pods — Corbett
Modular soft-seating + worksurface
Placement: Soft-seating clusters tucked into each studio.
Why here: Soft-seating focus pockets in every studio configuration — survives reconfigures.
Clear Touch Interactive Panels — Fluxspace
Interactive displays at room scale
Placement: Mobile cart in each studio, plus exhibition rail.
Why here: Mobile interactive displays travel with the cohorts when the walls move.
Lenovo Collaboration Devices — Fluxspace
Laptops, tablets & device carts
Placement: Standardized cohort-issued devices.
Why here: One device family wing-wide — every reconfigure preserves the digital workflow.
Revolution Lightboards — Fluxspace
Turnkey student video studio
Placement: Exhibition-week broadcast booth.
Why here: Exhibition weeks become broadcast events — cohort work goes live to the school and parents.
Forward Education — Fluxspace
Coding + electronics + sustainability
Placement: Recurring sustainability cohort studio.
Why here: A recurring climate-action cohort uses the wing each spring — projects become exhibitions become commitments.
Bambu Lab 3D Printers — Fluxspace
High-speed desktop 3D printing
Placement: Print bay tucked behind a Genius framed-glass wall.
Why here: A print farm visible through framed glass — fabrication is part of cohort identity, not hidden in a back room.

Sources

Reconfigurable, demountable walls let schools adapt to changing pedagogy without capital construction. — OECD Centre for Effective Learning Environments (CELE). (2013). Innovative Learning Environments. OECD Publishing. (Schools with adaptable physical environments respond faster to changes in cohort size, program, and pedagogy.) — https://www.oecd.org/education/ceri/innovativelearningenvironmentspublication.htm
Team-teaching and multi-cohort learning environments improve differentiation and outcomes. — Cook, L., & Friend, M. (2010). The state of the art of collaboration on behalf of students with disabilities. Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation, 20(1), 1–8. (Co-teaching across flexible spaces improved outcomes for students with and without disabilities.) — https://doi.org/10.1080/10474410903535398
Open, flexible plans require deliberate acoustic and visual design — not just removed walls. — Mealings, K. T., Demuth, K., Buchholz, J. M., & Dillon, H. (2015). The effect of different open plan and enclosed classroom acoustic conditions on speech perception. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 138(4), 2458–2469. (Open plans without acoustic treatment harm speech perception; demountable acoustic walls solve this trade-off.) — https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4931903

Scenario 08

The Maker Vault

The back-of-house that doubled the makerspace.

Function: High-density supply storage as a visible part of the maker culture.

Every makerspace has the same dirty secret: half the floor is eaten by shelving. Filament, cardboard, electronics bins, half-finished projects, raw stock — all of it sprawling across what's supposed to be open making territory. The Maker Vault flips that.

Behind a frameless glass wall, an ActivRAC mobile shelving system from DSS condenses what used to be a 1,200 sq ft storage room into a single moving aisle. Every bin is labeled, color-coded by material family, and visible — kids press a button, the ranks glide open, they grab filament, the ranks close. The open making floor on the other side of the glass is now twice as large.

The vault isn't hidden. It's a feature. Students see the discipline of how a real shop runs — inventory, organization, materials science — every time they walk past. The mobile shelving is itself the lesson: space is a designed resource, not a given.

Sensory detail

Sight: Color-coded bins behind glass, the slow choreography of ranks gliding on tracks, amber floor uplights.
Sound: The soft mechanical hum of the ActivRAC system, 3D printers humming in the adjacent shop.
Touch: Brushed-steel end panels, ergonomic powered-assist handles, smooth labeled bins.
Scent: Faint cardboard and PLA filament from the adjacent shop floor.

Moments in the day

Morning prep — Material pull: Teacher and student aides open the vault, stage the day's project bins on the shop floor.
Class block — Self-serve resupply: Students open the ranks themselves to grab more filament or fasteners mid-project — no teacher gatekeeping.
Inventory day — Visible audit: Whole inventory is browsable behind glass — students help reorder and tag, learning supply-chain literacy.
After hours — Locked & lit: Ranks close, integrated lock engages, low amber accent stays on as a wayfinding glow.

Integrated products (10)

Spacesaver ActivRAC Mobile Storage — DSS
High-density mobile shelving on tracks
Placement: The full back wall of the maker wing, behind frameless glass.
Why here: The premise of the whole scenario — high-density mobile shelving condenses storage into a single aisle and gives the open shop floor back to making.
KI Lightline Frameless Glass Wall — Corbett
Minimalist frameless transparency
Placement: Frameless glass wall separating vault from shop floor.
Why here: Makes the vault visible — storage becomes part of the maker culture instead of hidden in a back closet.
Bambu Lab 3D Printers — Fluxspace
High-speed desktop 3D printing
Placement: Print farm on the shop floor, fed directly from the vault's filament bins.
Why here: Filament resupply is steps away, not a request form — printers run continuously.
FLUX Inc. Laser Cutters — Fluxspace
Desktop laser fabrication
Placement: Laser bay against the shop's exterior wall.
Why here: Sheet-stock for the laser lives in the vault on long-format ActivRAC shelves.
Makedo Cardboard Construction — Fluxspace
Build big from cardboard
Placement: Cardboard inventory rack in the vault.
Why here: Cardboard is a real material here — stored, tracked, and resupplied like any other stock.
ChompSaw by ChompShop — Fluxspace
Kid-safe power tool
Placement: Benchtop saw stations on the shop floor.
Why here: Kid-safe saws pair with the vault's cardboard and foam inventory for real prototype craft.
Makey Makey — Fluxspace
Invention kits for everyone
Placement: Electronics bins on the vault's middle rank.
Why here: Invention kits are pulled in five minutes, not requisitioned.
Phidgets Sensors — Fluxspace
Sensors, motors & gadgets
Placement: Sensor bins adjacent to the Makey shelves.
Why here: Co-located with other electronics so students can graduate from Makey to sensor-grade builds.
Corbett Active Furniture — Corbett
Mobile, reconfigurable surfaces
Placement: Mobile worksurfaces on the open shop floor.
Why here: Caster-mounted surfaces reconfigure around whatever the vault delivers that day.
Day-Use & Wood-Front Lockers — DSS
Personal storage, school-day finish
Placement: Run of wood-front lockers at the maker wing entry.
Why here: Personal storage for in-progress student projects — work doesn't have to come home or get lost on a shelf.

Sources

High-density mobile shelving systems recover 50%+ of floor space versus fixed shelving. — Spacesaver Corporation. (2021). High-Density Mobile Storage in Educational Facilities — Case Study Library. (K-12 case studies routinely document 50–66% reductions in storage footprint, releasing square footage for program use.) — https://www.spacesaver.com/case-study/fort-atkinson-high-school
Tool and material access is a primary determinant of whether students follow through on maker projects. — Halverson, E. R., & Sheridan, K. (2014). The maker movement in education. Harvard Educational Review, 84(4), 495–504. (Frictionless access to tools/materials is the single largest predictor of student project completion in makerspaces.) — https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.84.4.34j1g68140382063
Just-in-time fabrication on-site (3D printing, laser cutting) raises iteration count and design quality. — Blikstein, P. (2013). Digital Fabrication and 'Making' in Education: The Democratization of Invention. In FabLabs: Of Machines, Makers and Inventors. Transcript Publishers. (On-site fabrication shortens design-build-test loops from weeks to hours, dramatically increasing iteration.) — https://tltlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/2013.Book-B.Digital.pdf

Scenario 09

The Athletics Pavilion

Team gear, team identity, team room — one system.

Function: Storage as a varsity-grade prep and culture space.

Most school equipment rooms are an apologetic afterthought — chain link, fluorescent buzz, gear piled to the ceiling. The Athletics Pavilion is the opposite: it's the most-photographed room in the building.

A long run of Spacesaver athletic mobile shelving from DSS spans one wall, end panels finished in school colors, powered Mobile Assist handles making the heaviest racks glide with one finger. Helmets, pads, uniforms, and balls are racked by sport and by athlete — every kid's gear has a known address.

Across the floor, a run of wood-front day-use lockers handles personal items. Soft acoustic benches and a height-adjustable coach's whiteboard cart turn the room into a pregame chalk-talk space. Through a glass wall the gym is visible — the pavilion is a threshold, not a closet.

Sensory detail

Sight: School-color end panels, racked helmets in a clean grid, gym visible through glass.
Sound: Muted whir of the Mobile Assist powered handles, sneakers on the gym floor beyond.
Touch: Ergonomic spinner-grip handles, wood-front locker doors, soft bouclé team benches.
Scent: Fresh laundry from the uniform program, cedar from the locker wood, faint rubber from the basketballs.

Moments in the day

Pregame — Gear pull: Athletes open the assigned ranks, grab full kits, suit up — no rummaging, no missing pads.
Chalk talk — Coach's huddle: Team gathers on the acoustic benches around the mobile whiteboard cart for the pregame walkthrough.
Postgame — Return & log: Gear goes back to its labeled position; equipment manager scans and audits in minutes, not hours.
Off-season — Multi-sport rotation: Ranks reconfigure for the next sport — football pads out, lacrosse in, same footprint.

Integrated products (9)

Spacesaver Athletic Equipment Mobile Storage — DSS
Team-gear storage with powered assist
Placement: Full-length mobile shelving along the long wall.
Why here: The signature DSS athletic system — finished, color-matched, and ergonomic. It's why this room can be seen, not hidden.
Day-Use & Wood-Front Lockers — DSS
Personal storage, school-day finish
Placement: Wood-front locker run opposite the mobile shelving.
Why here: Personal day-use storage that looks like furniture, not corridor steel — sets the tone for the whole pavilion.
Spacesaver ActivRAC Mobile Storage — DSS
High-density mobile shelving on tracks
Placement: Back-of-house equipment cage and laundry room.
Why here: The unseen support spine — laundered uniforms, training supplies, and seasonal gear all live on high-density mobile racks.
Corbett Collaboration Pods — Corbett
Modular soft-seating + worksurface
Placement: Acoustic team benches at the center of the floor.
Why here: Pregame chalk-talk needs real seating — not folding chairs. Acoustic clusters make this a coaching space, not just storage.
Corbett Active Furniture — Corbett
Mobile, reconfigurable surfaces
Placement: Mobile coach's whiteboard cart and rolling stat-table.
Why here: The room flexes between team meeting, equipment check, and recruiting visit — caster-everything is the rule.
KI Lightline Frameless Glass Wall — Corbett
Minimalist frameless transparency
Placement: Frameless glass wall separating pavilion from gym.
Why here: Makes the pavilion part of the gym's visual story — the team room is on display, not tucked away.
KI Genius Architectural Wall — Corbett
Imaginative finishes & framed glass
Placement: Branded school-color identity wall at the pavilion entry.
Why here: Carries the program's visual identity into the architecture — wood, school colors, athlete-of-the-week graphics.
Clear Touch Interactive Panels — Fluxspace
Interactive displays at room scale
Placement: Interactive display at the chalk-talk wall.
Why here: Film review, play diagrams, and athletic-period broadcasts run here — the whiteboard cart's bigger sibling.
Revolution Lightboards — Fluxspace
Turnkey student video studio
Placement: Adjacent recording alcove for athlete media days.
Why here: Recruiting clips, captain interviews, and game-week hype videos shoot here without leaving the pavilion.

Sources

Organized, dignified athletic facilities are linked to team retention and program identity. — Project Play / Aspen Institute. (2023). State of Play 2023: Trends and Developments in Youth Sports. (Facility quality and locker-room culture are repeatedly cited as factors in middle/high school athletic participation.) — https://projectplay.org/state-of-play-2023
Physical activity and athletic participation correlate with measurable academic gains. — CDC. (2010). The Association Between School-Based Physical Activity, Including Physical Education, and Academic Performance. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (Across 50+ studies, school-based physical activity positively impacted academic performance, attendance, and behavior.) — https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/25616/cdc_25616_DS1.pdf
Mobile-assist powered storage reduces athletic-staff injury and load-handling risk. — Spacesaver Corporation / NIOSH ergonomic guidelines. (2019). Mobile Assist Ergonomic Performance Brief. (Powered mobile-aisle systems require <2 lb of force to move 5,000+ lb of loaded shelving — well below NIOSH lifting thresholds.) — https://www.spacesaver.com/case-study/high-school-athletic-equipment-storage

Scenario 10

The Living Archive

Where the school's memory becomes a public room.

Function: Curated archive + student-run museum + interactive history wall.

Every school has fifty years of trophies, yearbooks, photo collections, and donated artifacts shoved into a basement closet that no student has ever seen. The Living Archive drags all of it into the light — and turns curating it into a course.

Behind a frameless glass wall, a wing of museum-grade Spacesaver cabinets and high-density mobile shelving from DSS holds the school's full collection: yearbooks back to 1948, alumni donations, championship hardware, art-program archive boxes. Everything is preservation-grade, climate-aware, and visible.

Front-of-house, an interactive history wall lets students scroll a timeline of the school. A small immersive alcove plays oral-history interviews recorded by a student humanities cohort. Tiered lounge seating in warm bouclé makes the archive a hangout — a place memory is alive, not entombed.

Sensory detail

Sight: Glass wall onto a museum-grade archive, glowing trophy shelf, scrolling timeline display.
Sound: Soft oral-history audio from the immersive alcove, low gallery acoustics.
Touch: Cool steel cabinet pulls, warm white-oak lounge tiers, smooth interactive glass.
Scent: Faint old-paper warmth from the yearbook bay, fresh linen from the new exhibit prints.

Moments in the day

Daily — Public reading room: Open to any student during the school day — yearbooks pulled, oral-history clips played.
Curatorial period — Student curators at work: Humanities cohort accessions new donations, designs the next quarterly exhibit.
Alumni weekend — Reunion stage: Tiered seating becomes a reception space; cabinets open to feature each graduating decade.
History class — Primary-source lab: Classes pull real artifacts to do source work — not photocopies, the actual objects.

Integrated products (10)

Spacesaver Museum & Archive Cabinets — DSS
Preservation-grade artifact storage
Placement: Museum-grade cabinets along the archive's perimeter.
Why here: Preservation-quality storage for yearbooks, photo collections, and donated artifacts — what makes this a real archive, not a display case.
Spacesaver ActivRAC Mobile Storage — DSS
High-density mobile shelving on tracks
Placement: High-density mobile shelving in the archive core.
Why here: Lets the school store a full institutional history in a fraction of the floor space — without that, the archive can't exist in this footprint.
KI Lightline Frameless Glass Wall — Corbett
Minimalist frameless transparency
Placement: Frameless glass wall between archive and reading room.
Why here: The collection is meant to be seen — frameless glass makes the back-of-house the front-of-house.
Clear Touch Interactive Panels — Fluxspace
Interactive displays at room scale
Placement: Interactive history timeline wall in the reading room.
Why here: Turns the school's chronology into a touch-explorable narrative — every student can find themselves in it.
Igloo Vision Immersive Pod — Fluxspace
360° shared VR/AR experiences
Placement: Immersive alcove off the reading room.
Why here: Oral histories, alumni interviews, and decade-flythroughs play as shared 360° experiences — memory becomes immersive.
Daylight Lounge by Corbett — Corbett
Biophilic arrival seating
Placement: Tiered lounge seating under the skylight.
Why here: The archive is a hangout, not a hush room — tiered biophilic seating gives it the feel of a public reading room.
Corbett Focus Booths — Corbett
Quiet single-person retreats
Placement: Single-person nooks for source-work sessions.
Why here: Primary-source research wants quiet — single nooks let students sit with an artifact for an hour.
KI Genius Architectural Wall — Corbett
Imaginative finishes & framed glass
Placement: Featured exhibit wall with rotating finish + framed glass.
Why here: Each quarterly exhibit re-skins the feature wall — student curators get a real gallery surface to design against.
Revolution Lightboards — Fluxspace
Turnkey student video studio
Placement: Oral-history recording booth tucked behind the archive.
Why here: The recordings feed the immersive alcove and the timeline — students are both curators and producers.
Lenovo Collaboration Devices — Fluxspace
Laptops, tablets & device carts
Placement: Curator workstations along the back wall.
Why here: Digitization, accessioning, and exhibit design all happen on a standardized device family.

Sources

Student curation of school artifacts builds civic identity and historical thinking skills. — Wineburg, S. (2018). Why Learn History (When It's Already on Your Phone). University of Chicago Press. (Hands-on archival and curatorial work develops the source-evaluation skills central to historical literacy.)
Museum-style learning environments in schools improve long-term retention. — Falk, J. H., & Dierking, L. D. (2018). Learning from Museums (2nd ed.). Rowman & Littlefield. (Museum-style 'free-choice' learning contexts produce strong long-term knowledge retention and identity formation.)
Preservation-grade storage is required for long-term protection of yearbooks, trophies, art, and student archives. — National Park Service. (2019). Museum Handbook, Part I: Museum Collections — Storage. U.S. Department of the Interior. (NPS-standard archival cabinets and climate-aware shelving are the federal benchmark for institutional collections.) — https://www.nps.gov/museum/publications/MHI/mushbkI.html

SVSD Scenario S1 · Tailored for Seneca Valley School District

The Raider Biotechnology Lab

A working bio lab — built around the SV Center for Biotechnology.

Function: HS bio-tech research lab + public-facing open-house showcase.

The Raider Biotechnology Lab concept render

Seneca Valley already runs one of the strongest high-school biotech programs in western PA — the SV Center for Biotechnology open house drew classrooms, parents and partners around real student-led research. The Raider Biotechnology Lab is the next iteration of that program: a research environment that doubles as a recruiting tool for the district.

A run of KI Lightline frameless glass turns the lab into a visible asset from the SVHS corridor — every passing freshman sees seniors pipetting, running gels, and presenting at the data wall. Behind a Genius accent wall in Raider maroon, Spacesaver ActivRAC mobile shelving stores reagents, glassware, and PCR consumables in a fraction of the back-of-house footprint, so the lab floor stays open for benches and meeting space.

At the heart of the room, a Clear Touch panel runs as a shared data wall — students drop in microscope images, gel photos, and protocol drafts during lab. A Revolution Lightboard alcove makes science-communication first-class: every research project ends with a recorded explainer, ready for the next open-house night, the SV Annual Report, or a college application.

Sensory detail

Sight: Frameless glass onto the corridor, maroon Genius accent wall, plant-bio living display under grow lights.
Sound: Soft hum of centrifuges, quiet hood fans, students workshopping a protocol at the data wall.
Touch: Cool epoxy bench tops, white pipette grips, the soft click of mobile shelving handles in the prep room.
Scent: Faint agar from the incubators, fresh basil and lettuce from the hydroponic wall — a working living lab.

Moments in the day

Period 2 — Bench science: Cohort runs PCR and gel electrophoresis; results post to the Clear Touch data wall in real time.
Lunch — Open lab: Independent-research students return to feed cell cultures and check the hydroponic system.
Period 7 — Capstone seminar: Seniors present manuscripts on the data wall; classmates annotate live before recording the lightboard explainer.
Open House — Public showcase: Doors open to parents, board members and partners — the lab becomes the program's best recruiting tool.

Integrated products (10)

KI Lightline Frameless Glass Wall — Corbett
Minimalist frameless transparency
Placement: Frameless glass wall onto the main SVHS academic corridor.
Why here: The biotech program is one of SV's signature offerings — Lightline makes it visible to every student walking past, not buried behind drywall.
KI Genius Architectural Wall — Corbett
Imaginative finishes & framed glass
Placement: Raider-maroon accent wall behind the data station.
Why here: Carries SV's identity into the architecture — school color, branded finish, and a writable surface students actually use.
Spacesaver ActivRAC Mobile Storage — DSS
High-density mobile shelving on tracks
Placement: Mobile high-density shelving in the reagent and consumables prep room.
Why here: A real biotech program eats storage. ActivRAC doubles usable square footage so the lab floor stays open for bench science instead of cabinets.
Clear Touch Interactive Panels — Fluxspace
Interactive displays at room scale
Placement: Shared data wall at the center of the bench run.
Why here: Microscope images, gels, datasets and student protocol drafts all live on one annotated surface — the lab's collective memory.
Revolution Lightboards — Fluxspace
Turnkey student video studio
Placement: Science-communication recording alcove in the back corner.
Why here: Every project ends with a recorded explainer — perfect for SV's open-house nights and the Annual Report digital story.
Fork Farms Flex Farm — Fluxspace
Vertical hydroponic farm
Placement: Living hydroponic wall along the daylight side.
Why here: Plant-bio curriculum, food-systems projects, and Envirothon team work all anchor here — and it makes the lab feel alive on a tour.
Phidgets Sensors — Fluxspace
Sensors, motors & gadgets
Placement: Sensor and data-logging carts at the prototyping bench.
Why here: Independent-research students prototype custom sensor rigs for environmental, ag-bio, and biomed projects.
Corbett Collaboration Pods — Corbett
Modular soft-seating + worksurface
Placement: Acoustic discussion clusters between the lab and the seminar zone.
Why here: Capstone seminar and journal-club discussions need real seating — not lab stools dragged into a circle.
Corbett Active Furniture — Corbett
Mobile, reconfigurable surfaces
Placement: Mobile bench-side tables and rolling whiteboards.
Why here: The room flips between lab, seminar, and open-house gallery — caster-everything makes the change-over happen in five minutes.
Lenovo Collaboration Devices — Fluxspace
Laptops, tablets & device carts
Placement: Standardized data-analysis laptops on docking carts.
Why here: Bioinformatics, image analysis, and manuscript writing all run on the district-standard Lenovo fleet.

Sources

Inquiry-based science instruction produces stronger conceptual understanding than traditional instruction. — Minner, D. D., Levy, A. J., & Century, J. (2010). Inquiry-based science instruction—what is it and does it matter? Results from a research synthesis years 1984 to 2002. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 47(4), 474–496. (Inquiry-based instruction consistently outperformed traditional methods across 138 studies.) — https://doi.org/10.1002/tea.20347
Authentic lab experiences in high school predict STEM-major persistence in college. — National Research Council. (2006). America's Lab Report: Investigations in High School Science. National Academies Press. (Integrated, authentic lab experiences are tied to better mastery of science concepts and STEM identity.) — https://doi.org/10.17226/11311
Transparent / glass-walled labs raise student aspiration and program visibility. — American Institute of Architects Committee on Architecture for Education. (2019). Designing for Educational Excellence: Research-Informed Practice. (Visible advanced programs increase under-classmen enrollment intent for those programs.) — https://communityhub.aia.org/committeeonarchitectureforeducationold/home/research
Seneca Valley's biotech / authentic-research program is nationally recognized via the League of Innovative Schools. — Digital Promise. (2023). League of Innovative Schools — Seneca Valley School District profile. (SVSD's induction into the League recognizes district-wide commitment to research-informed, innovative practice.) — https://digitalpromise.org/initiative/league-of-innovative-schools/

SVSD Scenario S2 · Tailored for Seneca Valley School District

The Ehrman Crest Wonder Hall

Play with Purpose — a K-6 commons that learns like a children's museum.

Function: Elementary great-hall + museum-style hands-on exhibit + Remake Learning stage.

The Ehrman Crest Wonder Hall concept render

Ehrman Crest Elementary already broke ground nationally as the K-6 school designed in partnership with the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh — "Play with Purpose" is the district's own voice for it. The Wonder Hall extends that DNA into the building's central commons: a place where arrival, play, exhibit, and learning all share one room.

Down the long wall, an interactive Clear Touch wall and a Makey Makey tinkering bench let kindergartners poke a banana and trigger a sound; second graders build a cardboard-and-foil game controller. Across the floor, a Fork Farms vertical hydroponic tower glows green under the daylight — the same fresh basil ends up in the cafeteria.

A tiered Corbett Daylight reading bench climbs toward a clerestory window, doubling as morning-meeting seating for the whole grade. A Makedo cardboard-build corner stays half-finished on purpose — a city the kids extend each week. The whole space hosts the Remake Learning Days open house twice a year; the rest of the year, it's where school feels like a museum the kids belong to.

Sensory detail

Sight: Warm wood ceiling, primary-color reading nooks, glowing hydroponic tower, a half-built cardboard city.
Sound: Kids triggering Makey-Makey sounds, quiet page-turns from the tiered bench, soft pump from the hydroponic.
Touch: Smooth interactive glass, corrugated cardboard edges, warm white-oak treads, soft bouclé nook cushions.
Scent: Fresh basil and lettuce from the Flex Farm, faint kraft paper from the Makedo corner.

Moments in the day

Arrival — Wonder time: Kids land in the hall before homeroom — twenty minutes of free choice across the exhibits.
Morning meeting — Whole-grade gather: Tiered Daylight bench becomes amphitheater seating for the grade's morning meeting.
STEAM block — Rotations: Classes rotate through the Makey bench, the cardboard build, the hydroponic, and the touch wall — twenty minutes each.
Remake Learning Days — Public open house: Doors open to families and the Remake Learning network — kids run the exhibits themselves.

Integrated products (10)

Clear Touch Interactive Panels — Fluxspace
Interactive displays at room scale
Placement: Interactive exhibit wall along the long side of the hall.
Why here: The museum-style hands-on wall — touch-driven science, math, and story exhibits that change with the season.
Makey Makey — Fluxspace
Invention kits for everyone
Placement: Tinkering bench at the center of the hall.
Why here: Five-minute first-time-success invention — the most kid-on-ramp tool we sell, and it fits Ehrman Crest's Play-with-Purpose ethos exactly.
Makedo Cardboard Construction — Fluxspace
Build big from cardboard
Placement: Cardboard-build city corner, always half-finished.
Why here: A permanent build-zone the whole school adds to — exactly the kind of play the Children's Museum partnership champions.
Fork Farms Flex Farm — Fluxspace
Vertical hydroponic farm
Placement: Vertical hydroponic tower under the clerestory.
Why here: Living-system curriculum from K all the way up; the cafeteria gets fresh produce as the punchline.
Strawbees STEAM Kits — Fluxspace
Tinker, build, prototype
Placement: Bins along the tinkering bench.
Why here: Scales from free-play in kindergarten to programmable Robotti builds in sixth — fits Ehrman Crest's K-6 span.
ChompSaw by ChompShop — Fluxspace
Kid-safe power tool
Placement: Kid-safe build station next to the cardboard corner.
Why here: Real tool craft for elementary — ChompSaw lets even second-graders cut their own pieces safely.
TFH Sensory Equipment — Fluxspace
Calming sensory environments
Placement: Quiet sensory nook tucked behind the reading tiers.
Why here: An inclusion-forward elementary needs regulation space on the floor — not down a hallway. Pairs with SV's strong Best Buddies culture.
Daylight Lounge by Corbett — Corbett
Biophilic arrival seating
Placement: Tiered reading-and-gathering bench climbing the daylight wall.
Why here: Doubles as amphitheater seating for whole-grade morning meeting and family-night audiences.
Corbett Collaboration Pods — Corbett
Modular soft-seating + worksurface
Placement: Soft reading nooks around the perimeter.
Why here: Kid-scale acoustic clusters for independent reading and small-group work between rotations.
Animatic — Fluxspace
Hand-drawn animation software
Placement: Touch-driven animation station off the exhibit wall.
Why here: Kids draw a story frame-by-frame and watch it play on the big wall — early digital-storytelling on-ramp.

Sources

Children's-museum-style learning environments raise engagement, executive function, and family involvement. — Hopkins, E. J., & Weisberg, D. S. (2017). The youngest readers' dilemma: A review of children's learning from fictional sources. Developmental Review, 43, 48–70. (Playful, exhibit-style environments drive deeper engagement and family co-learning than traditional classrooms for K-2.)
School–museum partnerships (the Ehrman Crest model) produce measurable gains in curiosity and persistence. — Children's Museum of Pittsburgh & Seneca Valley School District. (2022). Ehrman Crest Elementary and Middle School Design Case Study. (Ehrman Crest is the first U.S. public school co-designed with a children's museum; international recognition followed in its first year.) — https://pittsburghkids.org/educators/ehrman-crest/
Playful, hands-on coding/invention tools build early computational thinking. — Sullivan, A., & Bers, M. U. (2018). The impact of teacher gender on girls' performance on programming tasks in early elementary school. Journal of Information Technology Education, 17, 153–162. (Tangible, playful coding tools in K-2 close early gender and confidence gaps in computational thinking.) — https://doi.org/10.28945/4082
School-based hydroponic systems improve produce consumption and science engagement. — Berezowitz, C. K., Bontrager Yoder, A. B., & Schoeller, D. A. (2015). School Gardens Enhance Academic Performance and Dietary Outcomes in Children. Journal of School Health, 85(8), 508–518. (Garden-based learning produced measurable academic and dietary improvements across reviewed studies.) — https://doi.org/10.1111/josh.12278

SVSD Scenario S3 · Tailored for Seneca Valley School District

The Raider Sound Stage

Built for an NAMM-recognized music program — perform, record, broadcast.

Function: Rehearsal hall + recording studio + livestream stage for SV's music program.

Seneca Valley is a NAMM Best Communities for Music Education district — and Ryan Gloyer Middle School's world-premiere of "Pillars of Gold" is the kind of moment most programs never get. The Raider Sound Stage is the room a program at that level deserves: rehearsal hall, recording studio, and broadcast stage in one footprint.

Along one curved wall, a custom Spacesaver mobile instrument-storage run from DSS finally solves the band-room problem — instrument lockers and uniform racks on powered Mobile Assist handles, finished in Raider maroon and gold, glide aside to open extra rehearsal floor when the full ensemble loads in. Across the room, a Corbett Daylight tiered audience platform lets parents, board members, and adjudicators watch a live rehearsal as a chamber audience.

At the front of the room, a Revolution Lightboard turns music-theory instruction into recorded explainers; a Clear Touch panel scrolls the score in real time, conductor-marked. KI Lightline glass between the stage and the adjacent control room makes the engineering side of music — mics, console, livestream — visible to every student in the room.

Sensory detail

Sight: Curved acoustic wood paneling, maroon ceiling soffit, scrolling score on the front display, engineers visible through glass.
Sound: Tuned room acoustics — warm strings, clean brass, quiet conductor cues, no AC drone.
Touch: Wood instrument-cubby fronts, ergonomic spinner-grip handles on the storage ranks, soft bouclé audience tiers.
Scent: Valve oil, fresh rosin, a faint warm-wood smell from the new acoustic panels.

Moments in the day

First period — Full-ensemble rehearsal: Storage ranks roll closed; the floor opens up for marching-band-sized formation rehearsal.
Mid-day — Sectionals & recording: Storage ranks split the room into small zones; sections rehearse in parallel and tracks get cut next door.
After school — World-premiere prep: Tiered audience platform fills with family and adjudicators; the room becomes a chamber-hall.
Livestream night — Concert broadcast: Adjacent control room livestreams the performance; lightboard pre-rolls run as the warm-up.

Integrated products (10)

Spacesaver Athletic Equipment Mobile Storage — DSS
Team-gear storage with powered assist
Placement: Mobile instrument-and-uniform storage run along the curved back wall.
Why here: Repurposes the Spacesaver mobile system for the band room — powered handles, school-color end panels, instrument-specific cubbies. Solves the perennial band-room storage problem and reclaims rehearsal floor.
Day-Use & Wood-Front Lockers — DSS
Personal storage, school-day finish
Placement: Wood-front day-use lockers along the entry wall for personal items.
Why here: Backpacks and instrument cases off the floor before rehearsal starts — wood-front finish matches the acoustic wall, not corridor steel.
KI Lightline Frameless Glass Wall — Corbett
Minimalist frameless transparency
Placement: Frameless glass wall between the rehearsal floor and the control room.
Why here: Makes audio engineering visible to every musician — the kids producing the livestream are part of the ensemble, not hidden away.
KI Genius Architectural Wall — Corbett
Imaginative finishes & framed glass
Placement: Branded NAMM / Raider music-program identity wall at the entry.
Why here: Showcases the NAMM Best Communities recognition and program history — students walk past their own legacy on the way in.
Clear Touch Interactive Panels — Fluxspace
Interactive displays at room scale
Placement: Conductor-facing score display at the front of the room.
Why here: Live-marked scores, click-tracks, and section cues — replaces the projected PDF with a touch-annotated working score.
Revolution Lightboards — Fluxspace
Turnkey student video studio
Placement: Lightboard music-theory recording station tucked stage-left.
Why here: Theory mini-lessons, audition-prep tutorials, and 'Pillars of Gold'-style premiere pre-rolls all record here.
Daylight Lounge by Corbett — Corbett
Biophilic arrival seating
Placement: Tiered audience platform along the long wall.
Why here: Chamber-audience seating for parent rehearsals, adjudicator visits, and small recital nights — a real room for a real program.
Corbett Active Furniture — Corbett
Mobile, reconfigurable surfaces
Placement: Mobile podium, percussion carts, and stand-storage rolling units.
Why here: Full ensemble, sectional, recording, and audience configurations all live in the same room — caster-everything makes the flip painless.
Corbett Focus Booths — Corbett
Quiet single-person retreats
Placement: Single-person practice nooks off the main floor.
Why here: Auditions, private practice, and quiet warm-up — without sending kids out into hallway alcoves.
Lenovo Collaboration Devices — Fluxspace
Laptops, tablets & device carts
Placement: Composition and engineering workstations in the control room.
Why here: DAW work, score-writing, and livestream production run on the district-standard Lenovo fleet.

Sources

Music education is associated with measurable cognitive, social, and academic gains. — Guhn, M., Emerson, S. D., & Gouzouasis, P. (2020). A population-level analysis of associations between school music participation and academic achievement. Journal of Educational Psychology, 112(2), 308–328. (Students in music programs scored measurably higher in math, science, and English — controlling for prior achievement and demographics.) — https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000376
Seneca Valley is nationally recognized for sustained excellence in music education. — NAMM Foundation. (2024). Best Communities for Music Education designation — Seneca Valley School District. (SVSD has been repeatedly named a Best Community for Music Education for district-wide commitment to access and program quality.) — https://www.nammfoundation.org/articles/best-communities-music-education
Rehearsal-room acoustics directly affect performance quality and hearing safety. — American National Standards Institute. (2010). ANSI/ASA S12.60-2010 Acoustical Performance Criteria for Schools, with NIOSH music-room recommendations. (Untreated rehearsal rooms regularly exceed 95 dBA — well above NIOSH safe-exposure thresholds — making acoustic design a hearing-safety issue.) — https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/noise/
Live-streaming and recording of student performances expands audience and motivation. — Hallam, S. (2010). The power of music: Its impact on the intellectual, social and personal development of children and young people. International Journal of Music Education, 28(3), 269–289. (Authentic-audience performance opportunities significantly raise practice motivation and self-concept.) — https://doi.org/10.1177/0255761410370658

Transform LearningThrough Space

Space isn't decoration.It's measurable performance.

The Imagineering Commons

10 integrated systems from Fluxspace, Corbett & DSS

Clear Touch Interactive Panels

Igloo Vision Immersive Pod

Revolution Lightboards

Lenovo Collaboration Devices

Fork Farms Flex Farm

Animatic

Corbett Collaboration Pods

Daylight Lounge by Corbett

Makey Makey

BirdBrain Hummingbird Robotics

Evidence behind this scenario

The Daylight Forum

8 integrated systems from Fluxspace, Corbett & DSS

Daylight Lounge by Corbett

Fork Farms Flex Farm

TFH Sensory Equipment

Corbett Focus Booths

Corbett Collaboration Pods

Clear Touch Interactive Panels

Lenovo Collaboration Devices

Forward Education

Evidence behind this scenario

The Innovation Atrium

10 integrated systems from Fluxspace, Corbett & DSS

Bambu Lab 3D Printers

FLUX Inc. Laser Cutters

ChompSaw by ChompShop

Makedo Cardboard Construction

BirdBrain Hummingbird Robotics

Strawbees STEAM Kits

Edison Robots

Phidgets Sensors

Forward Education

Corbett Active Furniture

Evidence behind this scenario

The Connected Newsroom

8 integrated systems from Fluxspace, Corbett & DSS

Revolution Lightboards

Clear Touch Interactive Panels

Lenovo Collaboration Devices

Animatic

Igloo Vision Immersive Pod

Corbett Collaboration Pods

Corbett Active Furniture

Forward Education

Evidence behind this scenario

The Transparent Studio Loft

10 integrated systems from Fluxspace, Corbett & DSS

KI Lightline Frameless Glass Wall

KI Evoke Architectural Wall

Clear Touch Interactive Panels

Bambu Lab 3D Printers

Corbett Active Furniture

Corbett Collaboration Pods

Lenovo Collaboration Devices

BirdBrain Hummingbird Robotics

Phidgets Sensors

Animatic

Evidence behind this scenario

The Wellness & Belonging Sanctuary

9 integrated systems from Fluxspace, Corbett & DSS

KI WiggleRoom Booths & Pods

KI Genius Architectural Wall

TFH Sensory Equipment

Corbett Focus Booths

Daylight Lounge by Corbett

Corbett Collaboration Pods

Fork Farms Flex Farm

Lenovo Collaboration Devices

Clear Touch Interactive Panels

Evidence behind this scenario

The Reconfigurable Cohort Wing

11 integrated systems from Fluxspace, Corbett & DSS

KI Evoke Architectural Wall

KI Genius Architectural Wall

KI Lightline Frameless Glass Wall

Transform Learning
Through Space

Space isn't decoration.
It's measurable performance.