School Renovation
Architectural approaches to upgrading existing school buildings, covering heritage rehabilitation, classroom redesign, and campus transformation for contemporary learning.
School renovation concerns the adaptation of existing educational buildings to current teaching methods, safety standards, and community needs. Designers working on these projects must balance the constraints of an existing structure with new spatial programs for learning, play, and daily use. Work in this area often involves reconfiguring classrooms, reinterpreting historic fabric, and improving environmental performance without full replacement.
The projects gathered here show a range of scales, from a single 87 m² classroom reimagined as a themed learning space to whole campuses reorganized around future-ready environments. Heritage rehabilitation of a historic school and the renewal of an urban village campus both appear among them, illustrating how the same brief can lead to very different design strategies.
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Tengbom Restores Tensta's Pagoda-Roofed 1980s School and Reopens It as a Shared Campus for a Stockholm Suburb
In Spånga-Tensta, Stockholm, a heritage-listed 1980s school of brick, cast concrete and pagoda roofs reopens with its character carefully kept intact.
Gut Deubelbeiss Nill Architekten Rebuilds a Lost Schoolhouse in Unterägeri as a Shingled Timber Counterpart
In Unterägeri, Switzerland, a timber school with a concrete core replaces a demolished 1834 schoolhouse and completes a listed school courtyard.
Taiping Elementary School Renovation by KHAA (Kuo+Huang and Associates)
Hillside school transformed into public cultural hub with timber stair, skybridge, bookstore, and open plaza reconnecting Keelung’s harbor.
317studio Turns an 87 m² Classroom into a Forest Clearing for Scouts in New Taipei City
A rope canopy, student-made specimens, and campfire geometry replace rows of desks in this Scouting classroom in Xizhi District.
