DEC Design Guides
Guiding Principles
Within a systematic whole of life, value for money framework that takes into account enhancement of learning and teaching, planning and development, sustainability and facilities management, provide functional and durable facilities that:
Provide locally responsive design appropriate to the physical and social environment of the school community
Create activated spaces that enhance learning and support learning purpose
Provide designs that consider the whole of a space as well as the interrelationship and use of all spaces
Provide a balance of dedicated and multi-puprose spaces (loose fit) to ensure flexibility while maintaining specialisation
Design reconfigurable facilities for a long life span that can be adapted over time with minimal costs
Provide designs that contain inbuilt adaptability to accommodate changes in technology and pedagogy
Design agile learning environments with flexible furniture to allow intuitive and easy rearrangement for different purposes.Â