Image 3 of 19 from gallery of How to Design Schools and Interiors Based on Waldorf Pedagogy. Photograph by Gregor Schmidt
The unique pedagogy at Vittra School Telefonplan requires a design that disrupts the traditional classroom. We have solved this challenge with a learning landscape that serves as an educational tool and catalyst for learning – approved by the students themselves.Vittra has a strong focus on innovative and digital teaching methods. Therefore, we have strategically created room for learning situations where students can work with digital-based media – whether they are sitting, lying down or standing up.The teaching can now take place inside or on top of a massive iceberg with a cinema, platforms, and space for play. Students can get absorbed in projects in one of the flexible laboratories or be 'hands on' with materials and robotics – or do group work and hang out under a tree in the common area.
BDP designed the Maidenhill Primary School and Nursery for innovative learning in Glasgow, Scotland. Maidenhill Primary School and Nursery sits at the heart of the […]
Image 7 of 18 from gallery of Primary School and Kindergarten Täuffelen / Morscher Architekten. Photograph by Damian Poffet, Bern-Liebefeld
Stantec completed the Sheldon Lake Elementary School with a focus on innovation and performing arts in Houston, Texas. Sheldon Lake Elementary School emerged out of […]
It's not just an amusement park for children, it's a forest tribe we've created for children, a warm embrace of nature, authenticity and adventure...
Born out of a need to accommodate a growing enrollment and an expanding curriculum, Chengdu International School (CDIS) transformed a newly constructed structure from its original intended use as an Elementary School for Chinese students into an International School, grades Pre-K through 12, providing a Western-based educational model for foreign nationals living in China. The conversion of the five-story building was extensive and highlighted the spatial, organizational, and cultural differences between a Chinese teaching model (largely focused on rote learning and lecture style modalities) and those of a 21st-century learning environment (which emphasize group work, team teaching, and the holistic development of the child). In “right-sizing” the school to meet an approximately 700 student enrollment, the design exploits “found” underutilized space in the existing building plan that was used to create an environment that encourages student interaction, provides a variety of learning spaces for small, medium, and large class activities, and accommodates parent and community use. The transformation of the generic, hierarchical Chinese model to one that addresses the dynamic, pedagogical, and specialized curricular needs of an international school was achieved by blurring boundaries between private/academic and public/circulation space, enhancing transparency and openness, connecting spaces, putting learning on display, and creating spaces of varied sizes for individual and group study. Drawing upon the rich use of color and frames in traditional Chinese architecture, a language of wrapping planes enfold non-programmed and shared community space, offering opportunities for impromptu interaction, display of student work, distinguish functional areas, and provides clear wayfinding throughout. - Perkins Eastman
Elto Consultancy aimed to build a ‘second home’ for kindergarteners at Avenue Green Sheshan. The first step? Try to think like them.
Image 9 of 13 from gallery of Itoi Elementary School / Atelier BNK. Photograph by Koji Sakai
Unconventional school design fosters creative thinking and extra curricular activities
Amsterdam-based NL Architects have recently won the competition for a new school building in Knokke-Heist, Belgium. The proposal "De Vonk" (The Spark) acts as a transition between the city's outer rim and...
Image 7 of 24 from gallery of St. Andrew’s Scots School / Rosan Bosch Studio. Photograph by Kim Wendt
If we think about how the educational system worked in the past, we can quickly see that both the teaching style in schools as well as the school’s...
Image 12 of 42 from gallery of El Til·ler School / Eduard Balcells + Tigges Architekt + Ignasi Rius Architecture. Photograph by José Hevia
Image 40 of 47 from gallery of Kindergarten Riedlepark / Lanz Schwager Architekten. Photograph by Barbara Schwager
Completed in 2006 in Tromso, Norway. Images by Ivan Brodey. The kindergarten is organized in a number of longitudinal zones from the exterior playground, the roofed outdoor terraces that gives a good micro...
Image 17 of 35 from gallery of Library of Muyinga / BC Architects. Photograph by Bc Architects
Image 1 of 42 from gallery of El Til·ler School / Eduard Balcells + Tigges Architekt + Ignasi Rius Architecture. Photograph by José Hevia
Helsinki-based VERSTAS Architects has shared with us the beautiful Saunalahti Comprehensive School project in Espoo, Finland's second largest city. The school building, completed last fall, was the result of ...
The Library of Muyinga is a light-filled educational facility for deaf kids in Burundi, Africa, built from
Completed in 2017 in Beijing, China. Images by Wang Ning. This is the second children educational space that ARCHSTUDIO designed for Poly Wedo Art Educational Institution. It is located on the second floor...
An approach to defining and designing the right space for your school.
Adults encourage kids to learn, but the kids just want to have fun. Preschool is where those two goals mingle, as Joey Ho demonstrated with a 7,500-square-foot instructional space where good-natured imagination is king.
Image 10 of 45 from gallery of Kindergarten Bambú / Gonzalo Mardones Viviani. Photograph by Pablo Casals-Aguirre
Our team won the invited architectural competition for Sipoonlahti school (2015-16) together with Architects Frondelius+Keppo+Salmenperä Ltd. The project’s aim is to extend the existing school building and kindergarten, transform the existing buildings into a future learning environment and to develop the surrounding area into an open sports and learning park. ...
Image 4 of 20 from gallery of Jules Verne School / archi5. Photograph by Sergio Grazia
Image 8 of 26 from gallery of Nía School / Sulkin Askenazi. Photograph by Aldo C. Gracia
designed by dorte mandrup arkitekter, this timber-clad kindergarten boasts a distinctive typology that references the surrounding coastal landscape.
Image 3 of 51 from gallery of EcoKid Kindergarten / LAVA. Photograph by Hiroyuki Oki
Image 11 of 26 from gallery of Nursery “Pluchke” Ukkel / ZAmpone Architectuur. Photograph by Tim Van de Velde
Completed in 2014 in Ribnica, Slovenia. Images by Jorg Ceglar. Let the kindergarten become a place where an architect’s play with space blends with a child’s play. We are presenting the newly built kindergarten...
Completed in 2016 in Podgorje, Slovenia. Images by Janez Marolt . New TimeShare Kindergarten and School is located in the central area of small Slovenian village settlement Podgorje as an extension of the existing...
