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The Illumination School reorients the educational experience around a series of six glass tubes serving as organizational cores: the existing masonry is removed and the wood-framed glass cylinders are inserted. The existing building houses open-plan school facilities, while the tubes create unsupervised zones for students to explore their curiosities.