764WinnerFast forward to the FUTUREArchitecture has the power of empowerment people in their cities, their lives and relations. Architecture is not for pasts, it is for the Future. In this project we try to create the participation spaces for people to use. We inspiring existing layers on the site to memorable space and times. A Grand Arc of Aleppo is refer to the past and is for the Future.
5Honorable MentionJUST SCHOOLThe 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.
28WinnerSITUATIONS SCHOOLWe 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.
14Honorable MentionPlay = Learn BetterOur 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'.
248Honorable Mentionthe school of ONEThe 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.
1The Cluster StrategyOur 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.
60People's Choice AwardA space for the communityThe 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.
0Tahvonlahti PeroskouluThe 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.
321People's Choice AwardThe sense of coherenceThe 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.
1Honorable MentionCommon Learning HouseThe 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.
5Between Water & TimeTime is a mirror and water is its reflection. Between Water & Time is a park that uses the history of the site that still resonates with its culture, unraveling water lines create an urban public landscape that confronts the epochs to come while celebrating the past, from scientific to mythological, the easily forgotten to that which never truly washes away.
36WinnerWATER WOUNDBy visualizing the two most important aspects of global water crisis , the shortage of fresh water resources & the sea-level rise, this project is aiming to stimulate people's sensitivity of the growing water "wound".
