Elementary school

COEX Architecture designed the Petits-Explorateurs Primary School to support exploration-based learning, where environmental performance and educational methods are closely integrated. The school is organized around the concept of a village, with 22 classrooms distributed across a series of interconnected spaces of varying sizes. Each area is anchored by communal spaces that promote interaction and intuitive navigation. Vincent Brillant The Petits-Explorateurs school adopts a compact three-story form that accommodates the entire program within a reduced footprint, preserving outdoor space, limiting site disturbance, and improving the efficiency of the building envelope. Rather than expanding horizontally, the project concentrates it... More

Notre‑Dame‑du‑Paradis Elementary School stands in the rural municipality of Dudswell, in the Eastern Townships of Québec, as a typical 1960s school building set within a scenic landscape of fields and forests. The renovation and expansion project extends the life of this familiar structure by introducing new learning and sports facilities, while significantly improving accessibility and upgrading the existing building envelope and systems.​ Charles Lanteigne Charles Lanteigne Charles Lanteigne The extension houses a double gymnasium with its support spaces, a dedicated classroom for four‑year‑old kindergarten, a preschool dining room and new changing rooms. An elevator now connects the three existing floor levels, res... More

The school is located at the entrance to the Gally District, an eco-neighborhood at the edge of the Château de Versailles park, on the remarkable site of the former Versailles Pion barracks. Rooted in the landscape and historical heritage of the area, it draws from the arboreal structure of Versailles and explores three founding themes: Nature, Art, and Education. Inui Designed as a wooden jewel box topped with an ornamented crown, the building features educational terraces inspired by the gardens of André Le Nôtre. Intimate in scale, with its seven classrooms, it reinterprets the spirit of the garden city within the future neighborhood. The façade ornamentation is conceived as an engraved memory, echoing the... More

The Hoppet construction and innovation project aims to set new sustainability standards in the industry. The preschool has successfully achieved a 70% reduction in its climate impact. Located in Hisings Backa, Gothenburg, the Hoppet preschool is the first building completed under the city's construction and innovation initiative. The project aims to inspire the industry towards more sustainable, fossil-free practices. Felix Gerlach Sustainable Architecture through Design and Low Climate Impact In this project, every design decision was evaluated based on its environmental impact, guiding the overall approach. We also addressed ecological challenges through innovative design, creating a harmonious relationship between aesthetics and... More

In Blumberg, a town in south-western Germany on the edge of the Black Forest, the municipality is modernising, reorganising, and expanding the town’s school campus. This will create a cohesive educational hub that unifies various school functions. The project prioritises flexibility, sustainability, and spatial organisation to build a school campus that fosters a creative learning environment and supports generations to come. Designed by German architectural studio Spiecker Sautter Lauer, the first phase of the project includes a new three-storey building. This building houses a three-form elementary school, a special education and counselling centre, and a cafeteria for the entire campus. Nina Baisch Nina Baisch   C... More

More than just a school, École du Boisé-des-Prés is an immersive learning environment designed to nurture curiosity, creativity, and connection. As the largest of Quebec’s six Lab École projects, closely tied to Laval University’s School of Architecture, this groundbreaking elementary school is centered around the positive impact that intentional architectural design can have on schooling, children’s well-being, and the surrounding communities. Designed by Lapointe Magne et Associés and L’OEUF Architectes, the structure seamlessly integrates with its natural surroundings, sloping gently with the land while embracing a vision of openness and collaboration. Lighting is a central play... More

The elementary school consists of eight volumes that house the regular and special classrooms.  These volumes are divided into four levels and arranged in a zigzag pattern. To connect the classrooms across the corridors, twelve bridges are suspended at various angles between the facing volumes. Caption 広松美佐江 広松美佐江 Each volume and each floor has a different color, creating 32 distinct places with diverse combinations. This adds variety and identity to the school architecture, like the 32 team colors. 広松美佐江 広松美佐江 The spaces between the volumes are covered with a single  large roof, forming a large communal area with a five-story atrium that is semi-indoor. 広松美佐江 The atrium is well adapted to the loc... More

The Trinity College School campus is made up of old neo-gothic brick and stone buildings dating from the late 1800s, and woven together with buildings built throughout the 1900s. The primary goal of the Learning Commons Project was to create a space that supports and encourages multiple learning styles: social learning, individual study, group study, group projects, one-on-one guidance, and classroom instruction. With this in mind, and to accommodate a growth in space needs, an underused courtyard near the heart of the campus was enclosed to create a new Student Commons space. Scott Norsworthy Scott Norsworthy Scott Norsworthy A large new lower lounge space was designed to be flexible in order to accommodate various student,... More

This is an introspective inquiry and response about what is school and what is education. Zhu Yumeng Zhu Yumeng Zhu Yumeng Drawing from my personal and professional encounters, I have acquired a more extensive comprehension of education and formulated my own educational approach - "captivate initially, lead subsequently, support tenacity, and cultivate collaboratively." Zhu Yumeng Zhu Yumeng Beginning of the answer In order to extend the happy and lively educational experience to the childhood of today's children, this school not only meets the corresponding teaching functional requirements in its design but also creates more engaging and exploratory spaces. Creating environments that are both lively and peaceful... More

Makerspace refers to a space where models created and conceived freely can be actually created using various materials or digital technology-based machines. In other words, it is a creative activity space using digital technology and tools. Starting with "Hackerspace," which started in Germany, the concept of Makerspace has spread around the world. Makerspace has reached out to production activities beyond creative and production activities, and these social activities have caused a boom in numerous startup companies. Currently, Korea is also carrying out support projects for startups and start-ups in various ways, and MakerSpace is one of them. If children who have learned how to organize and produce their own things through Maker Space gr... More