Educational buildings

The first school of design in Japan, Kuwasawa Design School, expanded their facilities with a new building nearby their existing campus.The plan for the first phase of construction aimed to improve the functionality of the school’s facilities by fully renovating the new building to be operated in conjunction with the older school building. Koji Fujii(TOREAL) Koji Fujii(TOREAL) In the initial construction phase, the project involved a comprehensive renovation, spanning from the ground floor to the fourth floor. The design approach harnessed the building’s distinctive long and symmetrical structure,and focused on enhancing functionality through universal design principles and an optimized circulation plan. Koji Fujii... More

In the southern coastal city of Brighton & Hove, England, the new Performing Arts Centre for Brighton College strikes a balance between the monumental and the contemporary. Designed by Amsterdam-based architecture studio krft in cooperation with London-based Nicholas Hare Architects (NHA), the mixed-use educational building houses a timber-lined 400-seat theatre, music and performance spaces, a dance studio, digital media suite, and a dedicated Sixth Form and Global Futures Centre. Stijn Bollaert Stijn Bollaert Stijn Bollaert   Enhancing the learning environment Over the past decade, Brighton College has worked to enhance its 19th century campus with a number of new buildings. The college recognises the role that... More

Campus Bornholm brings together the island's upper secondary, adult, youth, and vocational education in the island's main city Rønne, ensuring the availability of a wide range of educational offerings. The intention is to retain and educate young people under the slogan "We’re educating an island." The outcome is obvious benfitial; providing the local business community with an attractive and qualified local workforce. Martin Schubert Martin Schubert The project includes new construction and renovation of existing workshop and theory buildings, collectively forming a compact educational center. Martin Schubert Martin Schubert The terraced superstructure with staggered levels adapts the large building to th... More

Crossroads School is a K-12 private school whose upper school is situated on an unconventional urban infill campus. This 13,000 sf warehouse across the street from the original campus, previously used as storage by airplane parts distributor, was acquired by the school to accommodate an eclectic mix of functions that needed to be relocated from adjacent structures. Nico Marques The existing double bow-truss structure provided voluminous ceiling height and the project focused on seizing the opportunities that this provided. The raw industrial aesthetic was sympathetic with the character and ethos of Crossroads School. Nico Marques The eclectic program of the project was inserted into the existing structure as a set of distinct vo... More

The winning design of a new school in Stara Boleslav is based on a flexible approach that will allow the school to evolve in the future according to current needs. The building with its green atria opens to views of local dominants. The school will accommodate up to 900 students from sixteen municipalities and will be funded by the municipalities themselves, which are due to the small number of inhabitants unable to build a school on their own. CHYBIK + KRISTOF Thanks to its views, the new building of the Primary School in Stara Boleslav creates a teaching space with a ubiquitous reference to its location. The architects have integrated its linear, low-rise structure into the surrounding buildings and complemented by vertical green at... More

Designed by Álvarez-Díaz & Villalón (AD&V), the Innovation Center of Science, Technology and Engineering at the Baldwin School of Puerto Rico will be a new two-story, 16,800-square-foot LEED certified building. It will be ideally situated on the beautiful existing 23-acre campus of Baldwin, one of the premier independent English language day schools in Puerto Rico. The first floor is being developed around a Maker Space, a central classroom where students with mutual interests can work together on projects while sharing ideas, equipment and knowledge. The building design is flexible, diverse and open to acknowledge a range of learners, and to reinforce critical thinking as well as complex problem solving. Scie... More

Gruppa & Anagram A-U, 2 young practices with base in the Netherlands, Barcelona and Athens participated in the national competition for a new cultural center in the city of Modřice in Czechia. The proposal deals with the reuse of the 2 existing buildings of the plot aiming to increase their historical value and reestablish their role for the city. Simultaneously it introduces a connector that is a pitched roof canopy which accommodates a new library for the citizens. The connector works as an extension of the city, inviting the citizens to spend time on the complex and follow the cultural events of Modřice. The proposal is a single-storey building, a decision which enhances the value of the ground floor, the extrovert character of the p... More

Child-friendly and sustainable: with Sluderno Kindergarten, Roland Baldi Architects has created a wooden building with a pitched roof, plastered façade and significant windows of different sizes that, with their staggered layout and dimensions, are reminiscent of an child's drawings. Inside, all the rooms can be accessed through the spacious foyer, which is also a welcome, recreation and play area. The group rooms face south towards the recreation areas in the garden. The custom-made wooden furniture, such as stools, tables and wardrobes, together with deliberately chosen colours convey a sense of security. More

A project of its own challenge and uniqueness that prompted us to shape the very definition of a government school. The main focus was to sculpt the school from an existing plan and dimension into a vibrant zone of learning, a place where kids can finally feel that the school is indeed built for them. Light, color, gathering spaces, greenery, scale, and most importantly, the kids have made this government school as what it is. The design breaks free of the typical rigid composition of a school through the use of Jaalis and height variations in the roof slabs which bring in daylight and ventilation, thus making it a breathing structure More

Gökçeada High School Campus consists of a high school, a vocational school, a dormitory, a sports center, a conference hall, and a library. The campus is situated on Gökçeada Island in Aegean Sea. PAB Architects won the architectural competition in 2014 and the realized design is in use by 2019. The design of the campus proposes an alternative, innovative and participatory learning environment which puts the student in a central role.  The main aim of the project is to create an 'open campus' by an integrated life between educational-social spaces of the school and the urban environment. Being on an island, the town is an isolated settlement with limited resources. Having townspeople to share the library, confe... More

Just outside the Portland city limits, Rockwood is among the most diverse and lowest income areas in the Portland metro area. Three non-profit organizations—Open School, Boys & Girls Club of Portland, and New Avenues for Youth—came together to create a two-building, 3.5-acre non-profit campus to support the neighborhood’s community of underserved youth. The campus delivers places for kids of all ages to learn, play, and socialize. The concurrent development of the two buildings enabled the organizations to create shared facilities that reduced initial capital investment. Open School East is an innovative college-prep school that prepares students who have struggled in traditional public school for success in college, career, and communi... More