Sketches and Room Shapes

Lets see today I was working on and off on my capstone. I didn't do any research today. I focused on mainly the class room shapes today. I also sketched out some building shape ideas for the over all view of my school. I really wanted to make a design that my school would have created and could be seen from bird's eye view but it would not come out the way I wanted it to. Right now I have sketched out little cubes that would represent two-four class room depending on the shape of the class room. My choices for class room shape are semi circles, 'L' shape, tradtional squares, and traditional rectangles. I remember reading articles that mentioned how classroom shapes sometimes affect the learning abilities positivly. I also read an article that recomended the use of 'L' shapes, the only downside was that it may create "dead space". A dead space is an empty space which is blocked from the rest of the room. However these spaces are created by the occupator, in my case the occupator would be the teachers. What I have also planned is to have the classrooms make a cube and those cubes will be placed on top of each other. So the "hallways" will be open spaces. The whole school will have at least 32 rooms which include 2 rooms for each grade (k-8), a music room, gym, offices, and bathrooms. I am going to try and up load some of the initial sketches tomorrow so you all can get sort of a better picture of what I am tring to explain.