#educationalarchitecture

Aukštaitija National Park Visitor Center is conceived as a gateway to the natural and cultural landscape of one of Lithuania’s most significant protected areas. Located in Utena, the project reinterprets the visitor center as both an informational and experiential space, designed to strengthen the relationship between people, landscape, and environmental awareness. Sandro Gravili The architectural concept is defined by a compact and contemporary volume carefully integrated into the surrounding natural context. Through a restrained material palette and a strong connection with the landscape, the building seeks to establish a dialogue with the forest environment while maintaining a clear and recognizable identity. The inte... More

At the southern entrance to Barbian (Barbiano) in South Tyrol, the Edificio multifunzionale establishes a clear civic presence while remaining rooted in its alpine context. Conceived by Roland Baldi Architects as a compact yet expressive ensemble, the project brings together a kindergarten, daycare centre, children’s restaurant, and tourist office within a single low-energy development. More than a collection of functions, the building operates as a 'green bridge' between mobility, education, and community life. Positioned at a key threshold to the village, the project signals arrival while maintaining a human scale. Its form and materiality reinterpret the region’s timber-building tradition through contemporary construction me... More

Situated on a slope with views of Puerto Varas and surrounded by the Andes Mountains, featuring volcanoes and Llanquihue Lake, the Puerto Varas School Kindergarten was designed as an engaging educational space where the architecture serves as a dynamic teacher. Rooted in the school's founding principle "every space educates" we aimed to embody this concept in a three-dimensional environment of exploration, enjoyment, and community, transforming how early learning settings can foster wellbeing, independence, and a bond with nature. Nicolás Saieh Established in 1996, the school has consistently appreciated education in a close connection with its environment — the light, the rain, the community, and the scenery of southern... More

Our redesign of the Saint Ann’s School Maker Space embraces the idea that this central learning center should be a destination for students and faculty alike, and a space of proactive provision for its many potential uses. We tapped into the explorative ethos of the school; its new visual identity; and extensive faculty conversations to transform it into a nimble, multi-use arena for play and learning.   Caption Caption Caption Caption Angela Hau The site contains a Computer Lab, Podcast Studio, main Maker Space, and a substantial corridor. We spoke with educators and faculty to ensure the design solutions were rooted in the current curriculum, while allowing for future adaptations. Custom millwork lines... More

The Fuchshofschule in Ludwigsburg's west is spatially designed to provide an appropriate place of learning and shared exchange for various large parts of the school community. The new school building, which emerged from a competition, now extends northwards from Fuchshofstraße. Based on the design image of a filled bookshelf on a playground, it was possible to transfer this ideal of school learning between the imparting of knowledge and social interaction into a wooden hybrid building. The three ceiling slabs cantilever out like shelves, offering the school community space for individual filling in the middle of a flowing outdoor area. For the new primary school in Ludwigsburg, a school building had to be developed that both complies... More

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... More

Unity Preschool is a non-profit Emilia Reggio inspired kindergarten, nestled within the confines of a conventional office building in Hangzhou. Serving as a beacon of support for double-income working families in the surrounding underserved community and those with multiple young children, Unity Preschool offers essential daycare services and additional childcare support. Studio Jia was commissioned to design the school campus, encompassing programs including classrooms, libraries, a central piazza, school kitchen, art studio, office space, performance stage, meeting rooms, reception area, café, and multi-function room. Lvqiu Photography Lvqiu Photography Lvqiu Photography Lvqiu Photography At the project's essen... More

A new addition to the reputable Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, the building serves as an Advanced Inter Arts Center. While the existing campus lacked a proper performance space or a stage of any kind, the new building designed by HQ Architects and HWKN Architecture will provide the Academy with adequate premises to fulfill its role. The new building sits adjacent to the original JAMD buildings in a masterful way, creating a visual sense of a unified complex fitting for an institution now housed under three different roofs. An elegant, playful, stone façade extends across the entire complex, giving it a sense of unity and a contemporary, welcoming identity, while celebrating local materiality and craftsmanship. The faç... More

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... More

Moravec Hall is the recently completed building for Ivy Tech Community College in Columbus, Indiana. The building replaces Poling Hall, an outdated 1970s era facility. As a replacement building, the project came with unique constraints such as the need to build the new structure prior to demolition, as well as maintain the near exact square footage with updated programs. At the same time, the project afforded the opportunity to re-shape the campus as well as the daily life of the school. The Ivy Tech building design evolved as the winning entry from an invited competition sponsored by the Cummins Foundation Architecture Program, a design excellence program who's architectural legacy has distinguished the city of Columbus for over six decade... More

In the coming years, the existing campus Rachelsmolen in Eindhoven of the Fontys University of Applied Sciences will be transformed from a closed-off island in the city to an inspiring educational environment. A campus that puts meeting each other at the heart and where cross-pollination between different fields lead to innovation, experimentation, and entrepreneurship. Barcode Architects, together with OKRA Landscape Architects and Hollandse Nieuwe interior architects, are responsible for the design of the new ambitious Fontys campus. Barcode Architects In providing a tailor-made approach to education, lies the strength of the Fontys as a whole. The Fontys education is characterized by its small scale, allowing every student to find... More

KOFA KINDERGARTEN is a school renovation project located in 1st Zhuxiang Road Futian District, Shenzhen, which covers an area of more than 3600 square meters. Its predecessor is Xiangshan Kindergarten which was built in the 1990s. The functional area in Kofa Kindergarten has 12 standard classrooms, plus a fitness room, a Gourmand workshop, a multi-functional reading hall, an immersive science and technology museum, a circular runway, a unique sand pool, and a LEGO workshop etc. Su Zhewei / Arch Exist As the starting point of children’s education, kindergarten is an important foundation to groom children’s aesthetics and creativity during their learning and growing process. The main purpose of our design is therefore focuse... More

Objective:To resurrect and imbue with new life one of the most barren and little-visited places in the zoo. To establish an environment giving rise to qualitatively new usage formats and scenarios. To provide a comfortable environment for animals within a confined area while facilitating programs of varying durations for all seasons for children of all ages. To show children how animals live in a more natural habitat. Solution:A zoo should not be an entertainment and a place where animals are penned up, but a learning environment. The new environment conveys the idea of nature preservation, and includes new play-based educational facilities. The main point of the new Children’s zoo is to treat the children's area of the zoo as a publ... More

The library of the town of Dornbirn was designed as an inter-generational sharing, meeting and learning space. It promotes reading and the practice of languages, the exploration of computerized research methods and new forms of communication. The joint project of the architectural offices Dietrich | Untertrifaller and Christian Schmoelz succeeded against 18 competitors and won the international architectural competition in early 2016.  Albrecht I. Schnabel The ovoid shaped pavilion was established autonomously and seems to have been placed in the park from above. It stands out expressively among the rectangular shapes of the surrounding buildings. The external path crosses the building, which then becomes a public space. ... More