The site is an area, outside an elementary school, where the school bus drops children off in the morning and picks them up in the afternoon. The climate is hot; the program is: provide shade and resting-places for children waiting for the bus.

The proposal is: that this is a place apart from school, before school and after school – school’s out here. It’s as if the school building is blown apart: replicas of the walls and roofs are scattered over the ground and stood on their ends, as if they’ve landed here after an explosion. Now that they’re tilted, they can be used as seats and shelters. The undersides of the walls and roofs are covered with chalk-board surfaces: children can write their own messages here, and invent their own codes. The edges of each wall and roof, where it’s been separated from its adjacent part, are lined with light: the walls and roofs illuminate the area around the school, and provide light for night-time activities.