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Open elementary and primary school project in Boom by Areal Architecten, photo: © Tim Van De Velde
This project is a new school building and environment for an existing primary school on a narrow building site. The aim of Areal Architecten was to create an open school with a generous message to the neighbourhood and one of the important elements of the design was the search for an appropriate balance between built and open space. (text by Areal Architecten)
Råå Day Care Center by Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter, photo: Adam Mørk
Situated on the scenic beach the children’s day care centre embedded in the dune forms a conspicuously inconspicuous silhouette against the green and sand-coloured setting of the small Swedish fishing village into the surrounding landscape. (text by Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter)
Frederiksvej Kindergarten by COBE Copenhagen, photo: Rasmus Hjortshøj
The kindergarten aims to create a small village setting for children that breaks away from the traditional, large scale institutional daycare environment. The small scale village atmosphere at Frederiksvej Kindergarten is achieved by dividing the building into 11 small houses joint together with different orientation. The various play programs in the kindergarten are centered around two winter gardens that resulted in these small, individualized spaces where children can establish their own play niches within the building. (text by COBE Copenhagen)
Las Nieves Technical Vocational School by WRL Arquitectos
The project corresponds to the reconstruction of a heritage building. It is part of the educational infrastructure from Protectora de la Infancia in the town of Puente Alto, Santiago, that welcomes vulnerable minors in extreme poverty. The building is part of a set of Modern Architecture buildings from the 1930s-40s, which suffered serious damage in the 2010 earthquake. The commission was to restore the operative capacity of the school for 800 students, destroyed by the earthquake, and to modernize the old facilities. (text by WRL Arquitectos)
School floating in the Sky by Kikuma Watanabe
School floating in the Sky by Kikuma Watanabe is a school in the village of Shangkhaburi, Thailand, located near the border of Myanmar, that aims to help alleviate poverty.
School in Kiefernwäldchen by Ramona Buxbaum Architekten; photo by Thomas Eicken
Having established her namesake practice earlier last year, a Darmstadt-based architect Ramona Buxbaum has completed this educational facility located in the midst of a leafy forest in a German town of Griesheim. Composed of three individual, elevated buildings which are interconnected with a set of roofed bridges, the school’s treehouse-like structure was developed in order to preserve as many trees as possible. (more…)
Borg + Nms Deutsch-Wagram school by Franz Architekten; photo by Lisa Rast
Following yesterday’s post about the elementary school located in Sichuan province, China, with today’s featured project we come back closer to home, more specifically, to Austria. Located 15 km northeast of Vienna, in Deutsch-Wagram, this 7.523-square-meters development has been completed in September 2011 and has since been a new home to two types of secondary schools: ‘Hauptschule’ and an upper secondary school with focus on natural sciences and mathematics ‘Realgymnasium.’ (more…)
XiaoQuan Elementary School by Trace Architecture Office; photo by Yao Li
Replacing an old school building which has been severely damaged and, consequently, demolished following the disastrous 2008 Sichuan earthquake, this austere, labyrinthine XiaoQuan Elementary School has been realised by a Beijing-based practice Trace Architecture Office (TAO). Intended to accommodate nearly 1000 students, this 8900-square-meters development is formed from ‘a cluster of small buildings’ such as classroom buildings, teacher’s office, student dormitory buildings, and a dining hall, all of which ‘create a small city, giving diversified space so as to enrich the children’s experience and activities.’ (more…)