Oasis Storage System
Year:
2025
Client:
Oasis Skateboard Factory
Scope:
Furniture Design
How might we create a storage plan for O.S.F. that fits into the students workflow, and can adapt to the an ever changing classroom?
Oasis Skateboard Factory (O.S.F.) is an alternative highschool in the TDSB focused on providing students entrepreneurship experience through independent learning. Students mainly do this through buildling and designing skateboards to sell but the school sees a diverse range of commissioned work. The O.S.F. classroom sits inside the Scadding Court Community Centre with roughly 480sqft of space, including two storage rooms. Over the 14 years they've run, O.S.F. has accumulated a lot, i.e. archival student work, old tools, and are running out of space to operate.
Highlights
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Problem
Secondary Research - Literature Reviews
Education continues to be defunded creating a larger barrier between students and effective education. Neurodivergent students already experience challenges in their education and these changes widen the gap in achieving their desired learning outcomes.
Journals online reveal that in school youth experience:
Classrooms aren't designed for neurodivergent minds.
Neurodivergent youth have worse mental health then their peers
Neurodivergent people struggle to access support in every level of education
Neurodivergent people are over represented in creative fields and under represented in academic and S.T.E.M. fields.
Primary Research - Interviews
They lacked autonomy and felt very limited in their futures.
They often went to external tutors to learn course material.
Students often prioritized grades over comprehension and left class unsatisfied.
Students are discouraged from pursuing art and connecting their learning to creative practices.
Primary Research - Co-Designs
They lacked autonomy and felt very limited in their futures.
They often went to external tutors to learn course material.
Students often prioritized grades over comprehension and left class unsatisfied.
Students are discouraged from pursuing art and connecting their learning to creative practices.