Learn Better

Rephrasing education through architecture

Helsinki, Finland

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Winner

1 Entry

Mariana and Lety

SITUATIONS SCHOOL

We believe learning should not be restricted to a specific space, it needs to be a nonstop process, a mindset to transform all human-made environments into learning opportunities. Therefore a school should be a place where children learn how to learn through their own natural behaviours ?play and exploration? and at their own pace.

Honorable Mention

4 Entries

翔 and 3 others

Play = Learn Better

Our researches on learning methods, regardless of the age category of the pupils, conclude that PLAYing can promote children's learning process. PLAY is the key to learn and to adapt to tomorrow's environment. Our Architectural concept proposes to focus on the activity of playing by creating a "large multipurpose space" to meet the PLAY needs'.

Kate and 3 others

248

the school of ONE

The School of ONE proposes an academic environment based on inter-generational learning. Rooms are divided with expanding and contracting walls, allowing overflow into the atrium spaces. This flexibility encourages the individual classes to become ONE, by overlapping art with science, music with literature, physical education with math, and so on.

Christine

Common Learning House

The Common Learning House is not only a place for pupils, it`s an open education and learning ground for everyone. 5 houses with different themes come together in one big hall and library like a market place for knowledge. It?s designed to give a special atmosphere to develop not only the education and cognitive, but also the social development all together.

Жук and Пoлина

JUST SCHOOL

The project of our school involves an education system without a system, but with a huge number of opportunities for self development. Students must create a comfortable atmosphere for themselves. There are classes of metalwork&woodwork, music, art, cooking, science, textiles, a sports hall with a stadium, and a concert hall with an easy-to-use backstage.

People's Choice Award

2 Entries

Paola

A space for the community

The school is as a space for the community, where children are welcome to experience life at a reduced scale. It is a beating heart for the community activities, where elders can teach children how to grow a plant or read them a book. The aim of the design is to make people transmit know-how and children breathe knowledge in every space of the school.

AKVK&

321

The sense of coherence

The major principle of our design strategy is that school's building and space (including its 'hidden curriculum') produce the sense of coherence - by using diverse modes of learning that would provide integrity and comprehensibility of the surrounding world, manageability and meaningfulness of its elements for personal development of each pupil.

Shortlisted

5 Entries

재완

Everyone's rights school

The right of everyone, whether Finnish or foreign, to enter or leave the forests, waterfalls, lakes, and rivers of Finland.

T-Construction

school 2204

The concept of the school is a modern building with a set of facilities that meet the requirements of modern education

Carolina and Fulvia

The Cluster Strategy

Our project is characterized by a set of cubes, combined with different heights, to accommodate various functions inside the school. In the front side of building there is a brise-soleil system, except on the north side, on terraces there are skylights to light classrooms even more. We realized two patios, overlooked by public spaces.

Avik

Tahvonlahti Peroskoulu

The Tahvonlahti Peruskoulu or Tahvonlahti Comprehensive School offers a holistic teaching environment which takes it?s pupils to the basics- to grow ones own food, to build, and to share and love.

Chris

Natural Inclusion

Agricultural education is to cover the wide variety of skills for children including science, math, leadership, management, and technology. This project pursues nature-oriented learning can catch up the changing world and apply their creative idea for complex real world with different levels of learning space.

Entries

2 Entries

TakamKenmogne and 2 others

SKILL-SCHOOL

SKILL-SCHOOL is a project of elementary school giving free rein to the thoughts of the students while guaranteeing them an adequate framework of learning where they are no longer called to be learners of information but rather producers of information; through all the different meticulously designed spaces that accompany the project.

Senthil Nathan and UNI

The Empathy Forest

The Future Model Learning environment should be based on 'Empathy'. Our current eco-system is collapsing because of a lack of empathy among world leaders, politicians, policy makers, corporates and the common man. Unstructured free learning in a Permaculture based empathetic environment will kindle young minds to respect nature and respond gently.