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| On an urban site in Long Beach, California, Morphosis created an elementary school that challanges Richard Neutra's conception of the 'open-air' school. Three stories in height, the International Elementary School is a dense urban icon that, through variations in form, skin, and colour, creates a complex layering that seperates public and private spaces. The play area is on the school's roof, an attempt to create a secure space that is seperated from the public not just physically by a chain-linked barrier, but visually as well. The dynamism of the juxtapostions that occur as one moves throughout the structure create spaces that one never can never fully predict, adding to the element of suprise, creating a building that never can be fully understood.
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