Schools

Set on a large plot in Talatona, Luanda, the school covers a gross floor area of 14,226 m², spread over three distinct volumes: the school and administrative building, the auditorium and sports hall, and staff accommodation. GV+A The layout respects the natural topography and green surroundings, resulting in a design of solids and voids that organizes the outdoor spaces, playground, and accesses. The main building, dedicated to teaching, is structured around a central atrium and interior courtyards, connecting classrooms, administrative areas, library, and support spaces. Circulation takes place in galleries, ensuring transparency and integration with the exterior. GV+A GV+A The auditorium, with a capacity for 212 seat... More

A nursery school with a capacity of 60 children is located in a suburban residential area in Tsurumi Ward, Yokohama City. The planned site area is located in a region designated by Yokohama City as a “priority development area” due to the high demand for nursery schools. However, in densely populated residential areas, there are few opportunities to have a site large enough for a nursery school. For this site as well, the area designated to the playground was kept to a minimum by satisfying the relaxation requirements, thus the plan was approved. Takumi Ota Photography Since it was impossible to secure a playground of a sufficient size, and considering the site being on a slope and surrounded by a terraced streetscape, we... More

The expansion of the International School of Lausanne has increased the school's capacity from 620 to 990 students from 3 to 18 years of age at the start of the 2015 school year. Divided into 3 stages, this project includes the construction of a new early childhood care structure - inaugurated in August 2014 - an auditorium with more than 400 seats, a library and a refectory with a rest area. These new facilities, designed and built by CCHE, have enabled the school to extend its range of services and improve the supervision of students. Thomas Jantscher South CampusThe colors of the South Campus are the declensions of the shades of the ISL Logo, namely Blue and Red. In order to keep the initial concept, the shades have been refined.... More

Located in Frederiksberg, Denmark, an educational building elevates the standard for public buildings through considered design and material application, serving both its students and the broader local community. This expansion of the existing educational facility has achieved the DGNB Diamond certification, a distinction in Danish architecture that recognises high levels of architectural quality and aesthetic appeal, in addition to the DGNB Gold standard. The project thus fulfils the vision of the local municipality to create a resource that enriches its users and integrates seamlessly with its urban context. Design for learning and community The architectural approach for the expansion was guided by a holistic strategy that prioritised... More

The conversion of the Châtelet school in Biel by Morscher Architekten from Berne is proof that monuments are not necessarily detached from the passage of time and changing requirements.   At the end of the thirties of the 20th century, a new type of schoolhouse typology began to develop in Switzerland. After the school palaces of the turn of the century, the majority of which were built in the style of historicism or later in Art Nouveau, the concepts of modernism spread to school building during the inter-war period. This coincided with a change in pedagogical concepts towards an education which had a less constraining, more independent development of children in mind. A child-friendly scale, a lot of light, lots of air and th... More

The design of Federal Way High School is rooted in a progressive vision of how design supports and advances education. Driven by the client to rethink how educational facilities respond to changing teaching methods, the team began with facilitated programmatic studies that engaged the administration, community, and students. We scrutinized presumptions about pedagogy, program, and function. As a result, designers discerned the need for the new replacement high school to offer two primary types of spaces—flexible and adaptable—to serve today’s students and provide a future-proof strategy to serve those of tomorrow.Accounting for the diverse community within Federal Way, the 232,000 SF high school’s student-centered design reflects its commun... More

STONEPANEL™ is perfect for the facade of the new Aimé-Césaire High School located in Clisson (France). Ataub Architects and their co-contractor Linéa Architecture and Urbanism chose STONEPANEL™ Sylvestre for the exterior cladding -a total surface of 550 square meters- of this secondary education institution which provides different grades about construction industry. STONEPANEL™ Sylvestre is a gneiss stone, very light and uniform. It transmits sobriety with its natural luminosity. The use of STONEPANEL™ Sylvestre adds a touch of class and elegance to the outside of this building, opened in September 2014. STONEPANEL™ is a unique system, created and patented by CUPA GROUP, that can be used for any type... More

In Nickby, about 35 km northeast of Finland’s capital Helsinki, we find Nickby Heart – a school that used STENI Colour and STENI Vision in combination with interesting architecture to create a unique designed and vivid expression.Weatherproof!“We wanted each area of the schoolyard to have its own identity, and STENI façade panels gave us just what we wanted. The colours are sharp and clear – and they really stand up to the sun, wind and weather. In addition, we could get graphics at the same quality. It was not so expensive either,” says Pentti Kareoja, architect at ARK-house arkkitehdit Oy.The architect chose to use STENI Vision and STENI Colour façade panels – colourful and playful. More

Stensnæs School has chosen a façade consisting of white and grey STENI façade panels in different gloss levels. This provides exciting nuances in the façade, which changes with changing light.The building has been nicknamed “The White Diamond”.“The façade is clad with highly durable STENI Colour façade panels, which is important with all the schoolchildren kicking balls and playing around and with the building,” says Hanne Lind Bonderup of the Frederikshavn local council.They chose to put design high on their list of priorities during the construction process, so that the children would get the opportunity to play and have fun in an inspiring school environment. More

The location is characterized by a slope oriented north-west which descends towards the lake and which adjoins an existing suburban area on the lower sector. The project is positioned in the lowest part, the flattest and sunniest of the plot, leaving free the green strip located on the top of the field. The spaces can thus be oriented and open to the sun. The ground level uses the existing topography and could be achievedsimply. The scale and geometry of the project refer to the environment; the perpendicular position to the slope allows permeability towards the lake. Thanks to various geometrical arrangements, the very simple elements compose an organic whole and create outside a series of outdoor spaces. The alternation of these interior... More

The design goes beyond simply extending the school building. Instead, it strengthens the character and status of the existing system as a public space, a school and a municipal center. The building acts in the spirit of a “vertical network structure” by playing with the special topography of the area to connect the existing levels and uses. It is complemented by extended pathways in the exterior area. These new connections spatially reorder access to the school premises and create additional exterior spaces. The covered playground now acts as the main entrance to the school facing the village. The new section picks up on the formal and material vocabulary of the existing building and presents itself as a large grid of raw concr... More

“Duco contributes to the building of an educational gem with DucoSun Ellips” In the autumn of 2014, the first sod was cut in the West Flanders seaside resort of Ostend for the construction of an impressive school complex. In order to cope expeditiously with the steady growth of Atheneum Pegasus, pupils and teaching staff were able, thanks to close cooperation between the stakeholders, to settle into the snazzy, elongated newbuild wing after scarcely one year. The design was handled by Urban Platform, whose main driving forces were sustainability and energy efficiency, as well as focusing on indoor climate. Close to the centre of Ostend, it is not only pupils and teaching staff, but also architecture enthusiasts and casual passers-by w... More

ULMA Architectural Solutions has supplied and installed 12,000 m2 of Vanguard range in the educational complex in the city of Sete Lagoas, Brazil.Sete Lagoas School has been built on a large plot on Avenida Cornélio Viana, on the outskirts of the city, with the landscape of the Sierra de Santa Helena as a backdrop.The studio of the architect Gustavo Penna was responsible for its construction.The entrance curved facade, its main architectural featureSeen from the main road, the complex is defined by the curve facade of the extensive entrance, which acts as a welcome gesture and takes it shape from ULMA’s Ventilated Facade system. The project is full of meanings and is based on the idea that different activities can coexist in harmony; theref... More