{"id":175,"date":"2014-04-20T11:33:02","date_gmt":"2014-04-20T11:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/owenarchitecture.com\/?p=175"},"modified":"2014-04-23T15:37:23","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T15:37:23","slug":"tracys-little-red-school-house-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/owenarchitecture.com\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":"Tracy\u2019s Little Red School House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href='https:\/\/owenarchitecture.com\/?page_id=158' class='small-button smallblack'>Photographs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Completed in May 2012, Tracy\u2019s Little Red Schoolhouse embodies Industries for the Blind\u2019s philosophy and continual effort to provide greater opportunity and assistance in independent living for the visually impaired.\u00a0 The independent living program emphasizes skills essential for managing the complexities of, and adapting to, day-to-day living including comprehensive rehabilitation for independent living, educational services, computer and vocational training, and social and recreational activities.<\/p>\n<p>On the exterior the red lap siding, double-hung windows and shingled roof play off the iconic images of the single room school houses of the past.\u00a0 Above the roof, and operated with a pull rope to the interior, sits the familiar school bell.<\/p>\n<p>The large front porch for outdoor classes and student gathering greets the students as they enter the first of three wayfinding intersections within the building.\u00a0 Using bright and contrasting colors, different floor textures and varying ceiling heights the visually impaired can easily identify where they are by look, feel and sound.\u00a0 These intersections happen only at significant places; at reception, classroom entrances and toilets.\u00a0 The three classrooms are intended to serve distinct and different needs, from artistic and general classes to hands on independent living skills education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Completed in May 2012, Tracy\u2019s Little Red Schoolhouse embodies Industries for the Blind\u2019s philosophy and continual effort to provide greater opportunity and assistance in independent living for the visually impaired.\u00a0 The independent living program emphasizes skills essential for managing the complexities of, and adapting to, day-to-day living including comprehensive rehabilitation for independent living, educational services, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,12,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/owenarchitecture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/owenarchitecture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/owenarchitecture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owenarchitecture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owenarchitecture.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/owenarchitecture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330,"href":"https:\/\/owenarchitecture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owenarchitecture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/owenarchitecture.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owenarchitecture.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owenarchitecture.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}