The multi-valency of the proposed brief - an educational space that interfaces problem-based learning, collaborative learning, discourse areas and informal learning spaces, lends itself to a compositional strategy that uses principles of folding to seamlessly connect the discrete programs. Robert Viñoly’s beach/tent house project is used as a case study to derive such principles and formalize them in a shape grammar to control formal variations of folded planes. The scores and the angles of the folding planes create a large set of spatial possibilities for the programmatic usages in both plan and section and a multivalent space to facilitate the dicerse modes of learning.