Learning environments
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about learning environments
Project • By BIAS Architects & Associates • Primary Schools
Bade Primary School
Situated in one of Taoyuan’s rapidly transforming districts, Bade Primary School responds to a recurring condition in Taiwanese school architecture: the tension between speed, simplicity, and identity. Many public schools delivered under such frameworks result in monochrome, highly utilitarian environments. By contrast, this project by BIAS Architects & Associates adopts a child-centred approach in which clarity, legibility, and sensory engagement inform the organisation of everyday learning spaces.
OS Studio
OS Studio
Colour as spatial infrastructure
Colour is used as an organisational device integrated into the school’s architectural logic. Saturated blues, yellows, and defined accent tones form a visua... More
Project • By Dagher Hanna & Partners • Auditoriums
COLLEGE LOUISE WEGMANN
Built on a sloped site in Jouret El Ballout, Lebanon, the new extension of Collège Louise Wegmann reimagines the relationship between architecture, education, and emotion—offering students a school that is at once playful, generous, and grounded.
Marco Pinarelli
Marco Pinarelli
Marco Pinarelli
Marco Pinarelli
Designed by Dagher Hanna & Partners, the building responds to both the steep topography and the school’s evolving pedagogical mission. A U-shaped addition turnsback toward the existing L-shaped school structure, consolidating the original courtyard and creating a new one in the process. This configuration reinforces spatial coherence across the campus while introducing vital new programmatic... More
News • News • 24 Oct 2024
New classroom building for UK’s largest school for deaf children provides tailor-made and supportive learning environment
London-based architectural studio Manalo & White has completed a new classroom building for Heathlands School in St Albans, south-eastern England, the UK’s largest school for deaf children. Designed in collaboration with deaf architect-led studio Richard Lyndon Design, the classroom building provides a tailor-made and supportive learning environment for pupils.
Rachel Ferriman
Rachel Ferriman
It was important from the outset that all aspects of the new classroom building should be deaf-friendly. Students at Heathlands School took part in a workshop with the architects during the project’s early stages. The classroom building’s soft green walls and yellow accents reflect the sense of “vibrancy&r... More
News • News • 2 Sep 2024
BAM takes an innovative approach to play in the first high-density park in Tianjin, China
Designed by Ballistic Architecture Machine (BAM), an unconventional multidisciplinary design firm with offices in Beijing, Shanghai, and New York, Tianjin 4A Sports Park takes an innovative approach to embedding learning environments in public spaces through play, while rethinking the role of parks in dense cities and reimagining our relationship with nature.
BAM
The current site context is that of a modern city building over the remains of the historical town of Yixying. Following the construction of a Grand Canal, residents of Yixing moved their entire village by reconstructing a facsimile to the north of Tianjin City. While the historical town itself was destroyed, BAM took as a starting point the original urban p... More