Classroom design
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about classroom design
Project • By G/O Architecture • Secondary Schools
The Ultimate Gray
Yongsan High School's “Classroom with Dreams,” or Dream Classroom, is a classroom renovated to reflect the school's characteristics, and was a project that involved students, teachers, and other school members from the design stage. They aimed to create a school space where learning, relaxation, and play are combined with teachers and classmates.
In fact, workshops were held so that students could directly express their thoughts and ideas about the spaces used by Yongsan High School. As a result, we were able to incorporate the necessary spatial elements into the program, including classrooms, rest areas, reading areas, and spaces for solitude.
tqtq Studio
The 1st and 3rd floors of the Dream Classroom are used for vocatio... More
News • News • 5 Nov 2024
Kindergarten Spenglergasse emphasizes spatial flexibility with open-plan classrooms and communal outdoor spaces
Designed by tagger3architektur, Kindergarten Spenglergasse is an innovative educational building in Vienna, Austria. The design emphasizes spatial flexibility, incorporating a modular layout that allows for dynamic interaction between various functions within the building. The architecture responds to the needs of early childhood education with open-plan classrooms and communal spaces adaptable to different group sizes and activities.
David Schreyer
The project includes a two-group open-system kindergarten with all-day care. Surrounded by single-family houses on three sides, the single-storey building is designed to accommodate expansion at a later date. The planned expansion of the third group will transform the complex int... More
Project • By HED • Universities
University of California, Davis
In the second phase of work for the Chemistry Building Addition and Modernization projects, HED designs a new building to provide core facilities and laboratories for the Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and Materials Science programs as well as other related disciplines. Rather than housing a single department, this project will deliver laboratory, research, and office space for faculty in chemistry, chemical engineering, and materials science, providing a common home for interdisciplinary interactions.
Kyle Jeffers
Kyle Jeffers
It will focus on projects requiring state-of-the-art experimental facilities. Some of these facilities will be specialized to particular needs, but there will be substantial shared experimental space.... More
News • News • 1 Mar 2024
Emixi Architectes designs a temporary classroom pavilion in a park
Lausanne-based Emixi Architectes has completed the design and build of a temporary classroom pavilion in Romanel-sur-Lausanne, a municipality in Switzerland. Located in Prazqueron Park, the contemporary, single-story building has four corner classrooms, each with direct access to the outside. Generously glazed facades connect the classroom pavilion with its park setting and flood internal spaces with an abundance of natural light. The pavilion is encircled by a covered walkway that provides shade in warm summer months and a level of protection against the elements.
Karina Castro
Karina Castro
Emixi Architectes
Emixi Architectes
The classroom pavilion was commissioned by Romanel-sur-Lausanne’s munic... More
News • News • 5 Oct 2023
New Detroit elementary school places education at the center of the city’s revitalization efforts
In Detroit, Michigan, a progressive education project for elementary schoolchildren in grades K-5 (kindergarten to fifth grade) has been designed by architectural firm PLY+ in partnership with Morcillo Pallares + Rule (MPR) Arquitectos. The School at Marygrove Elementary is sited in a building that was once part of the former Marygrove College campus in northwest Detroit.
Jason Keen
Founded in 1927 and closed in 2019, the 53-acre (≈ 21-hectare) Marygrove College campus is now overseen by the non-profit Marygrove Conservancy. Design collaborators at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, along with Detroit Public Schools and the University of Michigan School of Education, imagined... More
Project • By IPA - Architecture and more • Nurseries
BRITANICA Park School
As architects, we believe that architecture should enhance education and develop in children a sense of aesthetic appreciation for the environment.
BRITANICA Park School aims to promote tradition while building on it with modern education principles. It is located in the suburbs of Vitosha Mountain and caters to children from 2.5 years old (kindergarten) to 18 years old (school).
Todor Todorov
This project aims to design architecture that facilitates healthy living & learning. Socialization and communication, enriching social and behavioral habits are integrated in the concept.
Classical and modern ideas guide the building's exterior design. Ultimately, the form implies a connection to Great Britain's culture - tradition a... More
Project • By zuloark • Secondary Schools
Unconventional spaces of learning: The Debate Room
The physical spaces in which we find ourselves when developing certain actions have a direct influence in the quality if the activity itself. Due to cultural and of course economical reasons, school furniture industry offers a very limited variety of elements, designed in a way that promotes only a certain kind of educational activities, keen to certain individualism, based on taxonomy and separation, and with a great lack of collaborative spirit.
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“Non conventional education spaces: The Debate Room” aims to give an alternative answer to the didactic necessities of the students and teachers of the G. Luosi Institute. The space is designed in order to host activities of Public Speaking, a practice widely present and... More
News • News • 29 Aug 2021
Child Care Center by Equipo de Arquitectura develops courtyard typology into a sensitive, introspective space for early childhood learning
The Child Care Center in Villeta, Paraguay by Equipo de Arquitectura is an introspective, inward-looking construction and an incubator of the very life that takes place there. On the outside, earth volumes hide and protect the interior. On the inside, quite the opposite occurs.
Federico Cairoli
The Center comprises 4 larges spaces: two classrooms, which are further subdivided into two classrooms each, a dining room and an administrative area. Each space opens directly to a central open courtyard, visually communicate with the environment, eliminating the concept of the classroom as a closed space.
Federico Cairoli
This central courtyard, which functions as the children's play area, is a focal point of the ensemble. It is a meeti... More
News • News • 8 May 2021
Architecture of Kindergarden Enneberg encourages children to creatively develop their senses and abilities
A playful place for learning, this kindergarten extension in South Tyrol by Architekt Andreas Gruber was developed in close collaboration with educational staff to create a light-filled, child-friendly space that encourages children to learn through playful games and interaction with their immediate environment.
Gustav Willeit
The exterior façade, made of thermal brick, plaster, and natural wood, reflects the playful nature of children and the project concept with the use of colour, different heights and distances of windows, which frame different alpine landscape views.
Gustav Willeit
The flexible classrooms feature a range of scales and proportions, providing accessibility along with more sheltered and reserved places,... More
Project • By KPMB Architects • Universities
Wilson School of Design, Kwantlen Polytechnic Univ
Incubator for Excellence & InnovationThe vision for the new Wilson School of Design (WSOD) is to be the preeminent design school on the West Coast recognized for fostering innovation in technical fashion between fields of fashion, graphics, and interior design.Located in Richmond, BC, in the delta of the Fraser River, the site conditions, including a very high water table, infirm soils, and seismic considerations, necessitated a structural approach that is at once very light but very stiff. In essence, the structure had to perform like a ship.As Jane Jacobs observed: “new ideas need old buildings.” From New York to Milan, artists, designers and architects around the world work in studios in former historic industrial warehouse districts... More