Annie, I’ll admit I thought about the bathroom and decided it was more complexity that the sort of back of the envelope thing I was doing needed. I like your idea about adding living space to the project — it wouldn’t work in midtown, but I’ve had friends living in “office” space lofts elsewhere in the city. I’m not at all sure about the art and music part, though — remember, the example one room school I started thinking about had roughly similar amounts of space; kids did eat at their desks, and they managed to do what art etc the did in the room they had. Again, it’s been a long time since I was last in an elementary classroom, but it seems to me we didn’t get any special space at our desks for art projects until I was in Junior High anyway.
And the stone tablets and chisels we used to class work were a lot less wieldy than pencil and paper.
