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KCCS is what happens when a progressive client with ambitions to foster tomorrow’s leaders meets a creative architectural studio looking to lead now. Tom Ferguson Tom Ferguson Collaborating closely with our client, we helped plan a multi staged strategy for establishing a new, independent and innovative school in Arncliffe, Sydney. The school opened in 2015, putting into practice its belief that schools should utilise modern methods of engaging students to best equip them for a future world that no one can truly define. Tom Ferguson Tom Ferguson Tom Ferguson Our goal was to design a space to support the delivery of that pedagogy. To establish a framework where the school’s 4C values; creativity, critic... En savoir plus

5 years after the opening of the Young Innovators lab for students from 1st to 4th grade, the school’s team approached us to develop a STEM hub for the older students - 5th to 7th grade - as part of a strategic plan for renovation of the northern wing of the building. The space would be located on the second floor, consisting of two classrooms and two storage rooms. Doriyan Todorov The Next Level hub targets project-based learning in robotics, digital sciences and at the same time developing skills such as presentation, teamwork and communication. An essential space had to be planned for the teachers: a place where they could collaborate together to plan interdisciplinary classes, new ways to approach the traditional program and... En savoir plus

The complex is a set of orthogonal volumes along the eastern margin of the plot keeping the same perimeter and strict height relationship. The American school forms the northeast corner, the Croatian elementary school the southeast, and the kindergarten is a neutral, low structure in the middle. The objects are in a dialogue of form and structure; they build a space around the inner courtyards and emphasize the intimacy or security of the introvert. The educational complex is a nearly-zero design and the orientation is strictly determined by the optimal lighting in the north-south direction with glazed facades or east-west where the solid wall surface dominates. Robert Benson, Erick Velasco Farrera and Ivan Pavin Robert Benson, Eric... En savoir plus

The project lot, located within the block between Via Pietro Giuria, Corso Massimo D'Azeglio, Corso Dante and Via Tiziano Vecellio, until a few years ago housed an elementary school that was recently demolished, due to both the obsolescence of the prefabricated structure and the very limited capacity of the spaces to adapt to new educational needs. The new nursery is conceived on the importance that space, the "third educator", exerts in the individual and social growth of girls and boys, valuing both the spaces dedicated to them and the participation of adults as a fundamental element in the growth process within the children's center and the family.  The designed building presents a courtyard layout with the entrance located on the... En savoir plus

The design vision starts from the valorization the site's barycentric position as an element of urban reconnection and as an opportunity to redefine an attractive cultural hub for the municipality.Three simple volumes are grafted onto a regular modular mesh, adapted to meet the concrete needs of speed in the realization of the intervention, and arranged to define a public front on Viale 2 Giugno, on which the functions usable by the entire community, gymnasium and auditorium, are displaced. Connected by a junction with the flexible function of entrance atrium and foyer, the biggest volume is placed in the second line in a more collected dimension: the entrance takes place to the southeast, where a furnished widening of the current Passeggia... En savoir plus

The building intended for nursery and kindergarten was designed in 1966 by Arch. Martino Chiuminatto and Eng. Mario Ricono, who also supervised the structural design of the building, which was completed and tested in 1969. The building is presented as a single slatted building, placed perpendicular to the line of maximum slope of the land, and thus has a basement floor (free valley front and completely buried upstream front), a second floor that becomes a kind of ground floor upstream, and a second floor (volume emerging from the single sleeve of pitched roof). The main access is from the south, from the municipal road, via a steep asphalt driveway. Caption The architectural design provides for the integration of structural reinforcem... En savoir plus

The project proposes the reinterpretation of an enlarged intervention area, in which the construction of the new secondary school building represents the inclusion of an additional pavilion within a large park dedicated to sports and exercise as the main tool for prevention and health promotion. The existing structures, gymnasium and polyclinic, are incorporated into the ground design within a coherent system: targeted earth movements, new plantings and soft design of paths allow to stitch the area from the resulting spaces, restoring a hierarchy that brings back to the center the enjoyment of the outdoor space. The area aspires to become a new porous and attractive lung at the service of the community, connected to the urban center and nei... En savoir plus

The municipality of San Vittore, already marked by the caesura of the Cantonale road that abruptly divides the historic village from the next conurbation to the south, suffers from the fraying created by residential expansion in recent years.  The project proposes the new school complex as a counterpoint identity element to the Pala Tower and works on the stitching together, redefining a centrality through the redevelopment of the public area in front of the cylindrical tower of St. Lucius Church, extending to the gymnasium and Basketball court. Caption Settled to the northeast of the intervention lot, the building defines a new square by placing itself in relation with the former Administration building (which is imagined redev... En savoir plus

The project for the demolition and reconstruction of the current Cossatese High School aims to create a new hub focused on the well-being of future users of the school and on improving the area for the residents of the municipality as well. The outdoor spaces are organized as follows: the area pertaining to the gymnasium is characterized by an outdoor sports field and an athletic track, the latter already present in the current context but slightly shifted to optimize the use of the outdoor space, and the urban park, built on the old school site, is afferent to both the school and urban areas. The entrance to the school is envisioned on the existing Via Martiri della Libertà, passed the urban park, while the existing areas used for... En savoir plus

Architecture: Peck.Daam ArchitektenClient: Zweckverband Staatliche weiterführende Schulen im Südosten des Landkreises München (Association of State Secondary Schools in the South-East of the Munich District)Opening of library building: early 2020 MYDECK, Jana Horn THE STARTING POINT  The Neubiberg secondary school in the greater Munich area consists of two building blocks with an elongated entrance and school courtyard between them. At the end point of this courtyard is the school's main entrance. The extension building planned by the Munich architects Peck.Daam takes over the starting point of this spatial structure as the "head building". MYDECK, Jana Horn LIBRARY CONCEPT The extension building, which hou... En savoir plus

Bulgaria is one of the leading countries in the EU that has a problem with obesity and the immobility of children. One of the main reasons for that is how Bulgarian school environments and schedules are organized. Students barely have any physical activity with just 2 hours of sports per week and a huge concrete yard and long empty corridors fail to engage their senses for action and movement. That's how students spend, on average, 9 hours per day sitting. Viztinct Studio Viztinct Studio The main focus of the Math Hive STEM Center was to break with the average school lifestyle. We, as architects, used small hacks in the interior to allow students to move unconsciously in their new space. Each zone offers different types of seatin... En savoir plus

A harmonious combination of natural materials, inspiring and providing a learning experience for the students Caption The Architects were approached to create an inspiring school campus on the fringes of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. The Master Plan incorporated the necessary requirements of a dedicated primary school, an administration block catering to primary and senior schools, laboratories, an art centre, a library, a dining hall and outstanding residential quarters for both students and faculty. Caption A large derelict structure that stood nearby – originally an Information Technology (IT) building with a rather unimaginative façade – was also revamped into an academic block for the school upon request by the... En savoir plus

Rush Wright Associates was engaged to work on the St. Columba's College Central Campus Redevelopment. This project completes a seven year design and planning process that has created a unique series of teaching and learning spaces for St Columba’s College.  Rush Wright Associates The focus on social potential and year-round use, predominantly in the cooler months, has created a distinctive design solution created around bringing the campus together in a series of special meeting places and areas for teaching and learning-outside. Rush Wright Associates The courtyards read as large outdoor ‘room’ with a mix of serious, fun, contemplative, spiritual and nurturing spaces around a central circulation spine.The... En savoir plus

STORY BOARD PHASE 01 BLOCK -So as to create spaces where a student and teacher can come together and interact , we decided to anchor the new proposed blocks along the periphery of the space and orient them towards the central larger gathering space. A series of courtyards were perceived such that one big space gets sub volumes and the journey from one space to another is like unfolding of spaces offering discoveries of new elements , each time a student or a teacher moves from A to B . This series of unfolding volumes retains the child like curiosity inside a student Purnesh Dev EXTENTION BLOCK 01 - KINDERGARTEN SCHOOLCOURTYARD AND THE PAVILLION SEATING This block was planned around a courtyard in such a way that all the classes loo... En savoir plus