School Building
Architectural design and planning of educational facilities from classrooms to campus complexes.
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.
Fiechter Salzmann Extends Werner Künzi's Listed Mösli School in Ostermundigen with Concrete, Spruce and Red Steel
In Ostermundigen near Bern, a kindergarten and day school wing lengthens a heritage-listed complex using precast concrete, regional spruce and red steel.
See Architects Wraps a Stepped Seoul Commercial Block in Deep Concrete Fins Facing an Elementary School
Across from an elementary school near Seoul's Samseong Station, a 950 m² commercial block uses deep fins and stepped terraces to filter view and noise.
The School Beyond Its Walls: Enrico Panzacchi School by Archisbang and Areaprogetti
A pavilion school for 485 students in Ozzano dell'Emilia opens its gymnasium, auditorium and a new public square to the city.
FEI Architects Rescues Peking University's 1988 Teaching Building from Demolition and Remakes It as a School of Mathemat
In Beijing, a doomed 1980s teaching block on PKU's Yanyuan campus returns as a mathematics school where tiles, stairs and ceilings run on geometry.
Martínez Arquitectura, MEC Arquitectura and Fiallo Atelier Raise a Bogotá School over a Public Ground Linking Two Parks
In Bogotá's Kennedy district, a long brick school opens its ground floor to the neighborhood and climbs toward the eastern hills in terraced stairs.
A Moving School
A Moving School reimagines the elementary school as an active instrument for learning within the post-colonial, surveillance-oriented context of Taiwanese schools. Inspired by Fröbel, Montessori, and Reggio Emilia, it proposes a responsive architecture of movable elements that supports embodied, ecological, and collaborative learning.
Hubo Studio Builds a Child-Scaled City Around a Sunlit Piazza for a Johannesburg Early Learning Centre
In Sandton, Johannesburg, four light-filled ateliers, a corridor-free plan and a playable roof turn a Reggio Emilia school into a town for children.
Z&Z STUDIO Steps a Shenzhen High School Down a Hillside and Lifts Its Running Track into the Air
In Shenzhen, a 46,447 m² terraced courtyard campus stacks classrooms, gardens and a raised 300m track between park, mountain and harbour.
School of Thought Centre for Alternative Studies
In our fast-changing world, we face new challenges from day to day. Children need innovative, and adaptive methods to help them succeed in life. School of Thought Alternative Secondary School aims at providing inspiring and flexible spaces, where students can learn in the way most suitable for their personality.
PENZISBETTINI Extends Limmattal Cantonal School in Urdorf with Concrete Wings Built to Outlast Their Floor Plans
In Urdorf, Switzerland, prefabricated concrete ribs, a steel spiral stair and a timber auditorium open a 1980s school campus toward a new tram line.
graciastudio Hides a Tijuana Culinary School Behind Two Timber Boxes and a Courtyard of Trees
In Tijuana, Baja California, an 894 m² cooking school keeps a mute street face and turns inward to kitchens wrapped around a planted courtyard.
NIA
The 600 square meter learning space, NIA SCHOOL, is created to unlock the creative potential of children between two and eight years old with the use of design, materiality and light.
El Equipo Mazzanti Raises a Perforated Concrete Roof on Slanted Columns Among the Trees of a Santa Marta School
At a Santa Marta bilingual school, a 524 m² student center keeps its mature trees and uses a perforated concrete roof for shade, light and air.
LT2A and OPEN Architectes Thread a Brick and Glass High School Through a Wooded Belgian Campus
In Braine-l'Alleud, a 3,000 m² wing for Collège Cardinal Mercier pairs pale brick with a glazed colonnade, deferring to a small chapel and a dense wood.
ETEH Reworks the Shared Spaces of São Domingos School in Brazil Around Timber, Color and Hanging Plants
At São Domingos School in Brazil, 436 m² of hall, refectory and library are recast with timber joinery, a yellow and blue code and trailing greenery.
Ateliê GR Wraps a Small Brazilian Neighborhood School Around a Garden, a Shade Tree and a Light Steel Roof
In Brazil, a 340 m² school for young children by Ateliê GR treats its garden as a town square and opens glazed classrooms beneath light steel trusses.
School of Thought - Museum of learning
We have incorporated the concept of learning through the act of observation and engagement. This main concept informed the spaces and design language of the school. The school is designed to incorporate multi-functional spaces and optimised transitional spaces to become usable and occupiable.
Simplex Architecture Steps a Seoul Mid-Rise Tower to Negotiate Between Low-Rise Commerce and High-Rise Housing
In Seocho-dong, a gridded stone tower of terraces and sunken courtyards mediates between two radically different urban scales.
A highly original and engaging proposal that rethinks the school as an active learning environment rather than a fixed container for education. Its strongest quality is the transformation of movement into an educational and spatial experience. The project could become even more convincing by further testing the movable systems at full architectural scale, particularly in terms of safety, structure, accessibility, and everyday operation