Designing the building as a teaching tool needs to be addressed early in the design process. For example, some schools like to show a “truth window” that provides a view of a dissected wall assembly. Another idea is to include a mostly white roof, with only a small portion that is black—an easy way to demonstrate the temperature differences between the two colors. If your project attempts something like this, you need to design for safety and proper roof access for students, or you can design built-in thermometers so that students don’t even have to access the roof. But these and other features need to be included in the building design—it will be harder to accomplish them as afterthoughts. 

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