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Alyth Primary in Perthshire has undergone an £8.9 million transformation to unite the nursery, primary and community areas and create a protected external learning space. The principle of ‘shared learning’ is at the heart of the project and this is realised using open-plan classrooms, break-out areas and a terrace which extends from the first-floor library to overlook the central courtyard. To ensure this ambitious layout works acoustically, HERADESIGN® and THERMATEX® ceilings from Knauf AMF are installed throughout to achieve the standards required by BB93 Acoustic Design of Schools.An extension to the listed Victorian building is designed with large windows to accentuate the use of light. The natural materials used in the interior design... More

The project consisted in the refurbishment of the existing school building and extension with the construction of a new adjacent building to accommodate the new program. The new building was designed with a remarkably modern language without however overlapping with the existing architecture. The ground level of the extension building houses a classroom, teacher's room, sanitary facilities and kitchen. The upper floor has three of the new rooms, all with a direct exit to the exterior. In the existing building the old classrooms were converted to kindergarten rooms. The original porch, now centrally located to the entire school, is used as the transition between the existing rooms and the new building, becoming a ce... More

Toshin Satellite Preparatory schools gained considerable place in the Japanese cram schools business despite being subject to a strong competition. This development is mostly due to the perpetual seeking of space renewal and services improvements For its location in Kawanishi, the school needed new reception, consultation and conference spaces in order to be more attractive and provide better accessibility to both subscribed and prospective students. The new room available on the same floor of the mixed-use building where the classrooms are located is however relatively narrow. Dividing the space into separate functional rooms would create a non-comfortable atmosphere, creating a simple open space would result in a feeling of being crushe... More

In the Dutch community of Maasniel, the nature of a tree is the inspiration behind Architectenbureau Coppen’s school extension project comprising four new classrooms as well as a new library, outdoor theater and central space for meeting and open learning. The symbolism of a tree is used to organize new uses and new ways of teaching within an existing traditional corridor-style school. In the words of architect Hans Coppen, “Teaching is no longer about telling children facts. It is about sharing ideas to foster enthusiasm for a new world, not the world we think we know. People gather under a tree. The new central area here is like a tree as it offers a place for gathering, for sharing stories and ideas.” Just as the canopy of a tree o... More

Zaha Hadid Architects 04 Jockey Club Innovation Tower, Hong Kong Polytechnic University 01 02 The Jockey Club Innovation Tower (JCIT) is home to the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) School of Design, and the Jockey Club Design Institute for Social Innovation. The 15-storey, 15,000 sq. m. tower accommodates more than 1,800 students and staff, with facilities for design education and innovation that include: design studios, labs and workshops, exhibition areas, multi-functional classrooms, lecture theatre and communal lounge. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University campus has developed its urban fabric over the last 50 years with the university’s many faculties housed in visually coherent, yet very different buildings. The JCIT c... More

The Gonzaga Institute, one of the oldest private schools in Milan, from its foundation in 1906, has always considered the needs of the students and times. The school structure has evolved over the years, acquiring new spaces for learning activities and sports. It is in this context that the design of the new wing inserts itself. Recently completed, the school now offers a new sports center and conference hall, large outdoor spaces, and a multi-story car park. The facilities are open to students and the city at large. The courtyard is the heart of the school, the neuralgic center, both physically and functional wise, around which revolves the scholastic organism. The three new volumes overlook the courtyard and complete the fourth side.... More

A school that grows with the childrenThis project consists of a new child and teenager campus, comprising a kindergarten, a primary school and a secondary school. The building location for this new project lies in Antwerpen-North, along the Hardenvoort street, on the edge of the Park Spoor Noord.The building has two faces: a city side with higher building volumes and the tower, and a ‘softer’ park side with several levels, making the building a transition zone between the park and the Hardenvoort street side, and linking it to the education facility building. The plan is to create a central lobby to connect the street and the park sides and provide double access to the complex. There is a student entrance on the park side and an entran... More

The Oblates of Mary Immaculate founded St. Augustine School over one hundred years ago, at which time the school shared quarters with St. Augustine Church in a domed, three-storey, brick building located in the Kitsilanoneighbourhood of Vancouver. In 1951, the original school was demolished and replaced with what was to be a temporary, single-storey, wood-frame building. Sixty-four years later, a new three-storey, 300 student, 4,200 square metre, red brick-clad school and child care facility that features fifteen classrooms, a learning commons, multipurpose spaces and allowance for a new gymnasium occupies the compact site. The new school is clad with brick masonry and provides a symbolic link to the existing St. Augustine Church + P... More

MASTER PLAN & ARCHITECTURAL TYPOLOGIES The proposed Master Plan aims to create a contemporary and intense urban life with the New Aarch in the center of it while respecting the heritage of the area. The New Aarch is located in the south east side of the plot acting as a sound barrier to the housing allocated mostly on the northern part of the plot. The school of architecture is built combining a large building resembling the nearby transportation-related buildings with six smaller buildings. These smaller buildings are built on a lower typology and pretend to diffuse the boundary between the school of architecture and the dwellings next to it as both uses similar typologies. The location of the various buildings of the school allows the... More

Newly built school building Campus kantienberg for ArteveldehogeschoolThe low-rise building has been modelled to visually separate it from the slope, creating a new space. This is the building’s lung, which draws its air from the embankment area and the patio. The tower has ‘living façades’, which will function as beacons of light both during the day and at night. As a result, Ghent acquires a discrete, yet unique tower. Building schools means building the future, young people assimilate their spatial experience of light, air, simplicity and beauty throughout their lives. In the first instance it distinguishes itself through its unusual context, specific parameters and programmatic interpretation. Within the contou... More

Fraser Brown MacKennaArchitects designed a classroom suite for Carshalton Boys Sports College in South London. The building is clad in perforated and solid Cor-ten panels and utilised off-site manufacture to meet programme, budget, and sustainability requirements. The new built-for-purpose Maths facility replaced a deteriorating temporary structure, providing eight new flexible classrooms, staff offices and WC facilities within a new 775sqm single storey building. With its intriguing visual aesthetic the new Cor-ten clad facility promotes a positive, modern identity for the department, and provides an improved working environment within. The interiors are flooded with natural light and make use of moveable partitions to provide flexib... More

WMK Architecture has delivered a truly innovative approach to school design with its brand new learning and social space at the heart of Northern Beaches Christian School (NBCS) in Terrey Hills. The new educational facility is a world-class, open space designed to enable personal, authentic, and customised teaching. “Our aim is to make learning deep, engaging, relevant and fun,” said Stephen Harris, NBCS Principal. “We wanted a building that will inspire our students.” WMK’s design comprises a sequence of multi-level pavilion buildings beneath a spectacular 3,000 square metre intelligent living canopy which generates energy, harvests rainwater, and cools the spaces below. Under the soaring 11 metre high canopy, classrooms are super... More

A university linked with its location and an attractive new venue in town. That is the vision for the New Linnaeus University, one of Sweden's largest university projects. The university is currently spread out across the city of Kalmar. By gathering all activities on the quay of today’s guest harbour in central Kalmar, the new Linnaeus University will be more integrated in the city, with students and industry drawn closer together. Our ambition is to change and enhance the site and creating new meeting places in the city, between students and locals. The vision is a sea shell with a pearl in it. The shell is a robust brick building surround the pearl, a ‘portal building’ built in the classic materials of wood and glass to symbolize t... More

It is a small building that composes with neighboring buildings large. Located between the two during the school group, it is detached from the existing buildings and surmounted by a high court on the roof. The superposition of different functions minimizes the footprint of the building and protects the surfaces of the existing classes. The dining room is a balcony above the farmyard. Its facade is deep and clear, conceived as a continuously regulating diaphragm relations between interior and exterior. On the roof, the courtyard is an open room surrounded by a wooden fence on clear track. The dining room is covered by a slab of wood after principle 'O'Porthune'. This is a juxtaposition of plates placed on edge and assembled together with an... More