The centre has been housed at 68 Woodstock Road (the former rectory of the Church of St Philip and St James, built in 1887) since 1978. The Middle East Centre holds Oxford University’s primary collection on the modern Middle East, a world-class archive of private papers and historic photographs used by scholars and researchers with an interest in the region. The centr...
Inaugurated with the name of the famous Castilian writer Miguel Delibes, the new building is erected on 6,000 square meters in the Avenida Pablo Iglesias of Alcobendas, one of the youngest areas of the city. This results from the express will of the developer to create an open and dynamic centre so as to generate a singular volumetry. Rafael de La-Hoz proposes a build...
Due to limited land area the owner of a local kindergarten decided to renovate his own family house transforming the original private nursery into a fully developed education institution. Clover House differentiates itself from traditional kindergartens by fully embracing its role as a shelter—a haven for education during the day and a home in the evening. The kinderg...
The proposal explores the relations between inside and outside through two systems that will define the spatial organization of the school: in the classrooms, an atmosphere of concentration is sought, so the large windows open to gaps, like private courtyards, providing controlled natural light and diagonal views to the surroundings. In the common zones the opposite h...
The plot on which the library had to be expanded was very limited in size and located in an urban environment. The existing library, alongside other public services, was located in a building that’s listed on the inventory of architectural heritage. The request of the client consisted of a complex set of requirements, along with the wish to make the library more visib...
DESIGN DESCRIPTION Situated on a magnificent wooded hill, the university is located on two connecting sites. The larger site to the southwest is in a shallow valley, with two streams running through and views towards the nearby plains below, while the other site to the east is on a terraced hill, with spectacular views to the ocean. Established by a Buddhist group, the ...
The building has been designed around three main principles - community, flexibility and sustainability. This building development finalises the three school campuses (junior, middle and senior) and provides a cohesive link between these through a central college heart. Importantly, these developments overlay 21st educational practices and tools, flexible design principl...
Modscape worked closely with Eastern Health to deliver a new education facility that provides expanded teaching and training spaces to meet the growing requirements of Wantirna Health’s current operations. With a combined module space of 418 sqm, the design comprises a 7-module building that connects to the hospital via a central corridor. As the precinct is sited at t...
The project that takes us to the Barcelona town Cerdanyola del Vallés consists in the redesign of the brand and interior for the academy of recitation and English classes. To celebrate the 15 years of existence of Acadèmia Altimira, Laura and Mónica, sisters and owners of the academy, contacted Masquespacio with the idea to redesign their brand and space. The project ...
The only enclosure around the new school in Embelgasse is the perimeter of the block.With its large glass surfaces, the ground floor affords an insight into everyday school life, opening the inside of the block to the street. The outward appearance of the new vocational training school is characterized by openness, transparency, and through views. On the upper floors, ...
The building geometry is derived from the geometry of Krkonoše Mountains. Every edge or slope on the building could be found in its real, natural topography. In between of the metal vectors, which represent the mountain ridges, there is growing sedum. The new building is set apart from the existing one to create an entrance platform. This public space atmosphere is suppo...
The environment encourages spatial awareness and improves physical abilities through play on a black & white checkered floor surface which inspires physical movement. In another corner there is an Audio games corner - a big screen embedded in a robot head, enables interactive play and characterizes the tech era we live in. Children can choose audio games and films. The R...
The inner shape- created from the intersection of the two triangles- is an hexagon, a shape with universal values. The school’s holistic approach is about the connection of man to its community, to nature and to moral values. The hexagon shape is common in nature (bee hives) as well as in mathematics. The tables in the classes are designed to create a fun and modular le...
The building is situated on a cliff facing South towards the Jerusalem Theater. Its Northern facade faces the central garden courtyard, which acts as the 'heart' of the campus. The low-set horizontal appearance of the building integrates with the dimensions and design characteristics of its existing surrounding buildings which are comprised of opaque stone facades facing...
The building built on two levels is the meeting point between the two schools, and it gives the school complex the identity and the consistency that were lacking. The main volume’s effect of the building is spectacular: a rock suspended over the void, both solid and aerial. The rocky aspect contrasts with the whiteness of the ground floor walls, the jambs of the woodw...
The blocks were rather generic, with 6 floors of classrooms, labs, and other facilities arranged towards the periphery around matching central courtyards. Our brief was to work within these existing parameters to make a school. So we developed a design program in terms of circulation, movement, ventilation, classrooms and other concerns.” Keeping in mind the location ...
designed by H arquitectes and dataAE for the universitat autònoma de barcelona, the structure contains a variety of teaching facilities, meeting rooms, offices and laboratories. at roof level a range of organic vegetable patches are interspersed with breakout areas for both staff and students. the building’s concrete structure is protected by a low cost external skin, w...
The building was in need of a new flexible multipurpose space, and a second stairway for security reasons. Valero built a new space, linking with the existing building, to become the new west façade. The rules of the game were very clear: there was very little money, two months in which to build, numerous building and other regulations, and the goal of energy efficien...
The construction consists of three wings around an interior central patio with four sides of unequal depth. The façade is extended to include the entryway to a romantic garden with important cypress, palm and pomegranate trees. Structurally, the building is made of brick with marble columns (in the patio and one of the interior galleries). The intervention consiste...
the design was completed in order to facilitate the accommodation of seventh year students into secondary school. deemed ‘mary place’ — after the mother of Jesus — the modern five story façade stands amongst some of brisbane’s oldest buildings. the energy efficient education complex features active learning spaces and a vibrant, central courtyard for students to sociali...
completed by chyutin architects, the 6,200m2 structure was built to accommodate both administrative offices and student facilities. in order to do so, and to maintain a strict functional clarity, the team split functions into two main wings. one houses the multiple offices of the dean of students. the building is a two story, rectangular prism that sits perpendicular to ...
‘the roc’ cafeteria, based in a building with two levels has established a meeting point between the two schools and at the same time, given it a distinctive identity. the rocky texture of the volume starkly contrasts with the white floors, the jambs of the woodwork and underlines the structure being suspended. purposely perched higher than the surrounding wall of the s...
surrounded by trees, ‘fonte de angeão school’ explores the relationship between inside and outside, through two systems that define the project’s spatial organization. within classrooms, where constant levels of concentration are required, private courtyards limit external sightlines, while providing controlled levels of daylight. conversely, in communal zones, the o...
The Seona Reid Building is in complementary contrast to Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s 1909 Glasgow School of Art – forging a symbiotic relation in which each structure heightens the integral qualities of the other. A thin translucent materiality in considered contrast to the masonry of the Mackintosh building – volumes of light which express the school’s activity in the ur...
Founded in 1957, the Middle East Centre at St Antony’s College serves as the University of Oxford’s facility for research and teaching on the Arab world, Iran, Israel and Turkey from the 19th century to the present day, with its focus on the research of humanities and social sciences. The centre has been housed at 68 Woodstock Road (the former rectory of the Church of St...
The Polonsky Academy of Advanced Studies for the Humanities and Social Sciences is part of the Van Leer Institute campus in Jerusalem. The building, designed by Chyutin Architects, is situated on a cliff facing South towards the Jerusalem Theater.Its Northern facade faces the central garden courtyard, which acts as the “heart” of the campus. The low-set horizontal appea...
Directed by Victor Vroegindeweij, the film itself was commissioned by KAAN Architecten on the occasion of the building being nominated for this year’s European Union Architecture Award 'Mies van der Rohe'. Borrowing its title from the poem ‘When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer’ by Walt Whitman, which raises questions about the relationship between objective knowledge and ...
Sou Fujimoto Architects, Manal Rachdi OXO Architects and Nicolas Laisné Associates have won the restricted competition to design the new center, which will gather six institutions under one roof. The building's design is intended to reveal activities usually hidden with its open, glass walls. The Learning Center features a large atrium populated with plants. Instead o...
Designed by Sustainable Education Every Day (SEED) Collaborative, the classrooms feature solar photovoltaic arrays, collect rainwater, use composting toilets and comply with the Living Building Challenge (LBC) standards. The Phipps SEED classroom follows the same design principles as the one in Seattle, which the SEED Collaborative built for the Perkins School. Both s...
The complex includes two renovated and structurally upgraded warehouses that would house quiet spaces for individualized study and recreation areas. The main building comprises a large open classroom and three smaller ones, accompanied with a lounge area where parents can wait for their children. The second building is reserved for sports and group events. A courtyard...
Nestled in the picturesque Wiesent river valley, the timber-clad Fraunhofer Research Campus combines the quaint and traditional village architectural style with a modern aesthetic. The spatial arrangement and materials palette for the campus’ four asymmetric buildings earned the project a “passive energy” rating. The medieval Waischenfeld village comprises a dense net...
The winner was Antwerp-based Studio Farris Architect who managed to create a building that stood out from the crowd. Covered in maintenance-free, rusty Corten steel panels, it creates a stunning contrast against the white plastered skin's main building. The clients’ brief was to make the library more visible from the street so that it will stand out with its very own ...
The architects at archi5 had a vision of merging the schools to facilitate educational accessibility and the flow of traffic, yet they also wished to preserve the historically medieval and currently rural roots of the town. The highlight of this structure is the bridge joining the previously separated buildings. This formation houses all of the amenities of student li...
The flexible living and learning space was created when the owner of a small kindergarten school in Japan decided to redevelop his own living space in order to expand an educational area for his students. Construction has begun on converting the original two story house into a dynamic mixed-use space, which will take place by wrapping a luminous skin around the home’s or...
Situated in Karlsruhe, Germany—although we would've guessed it was in Japan—Kindergarten Die Katzie was built as part of the campaign 'Europe Without Borders' becoming a symbol of a Franco-German friendship. The cute feline school welcomes hundreds of kids every day who enter through the mouth, take classes in its belly and come out through its tail, or a silver slide at...
The Hanazono Kindergarten was designed with weather in mind, incorporating features to keep children safe and comfortable through extreme weather conditions. Design studios Hibino Sekkei and sister firm Youji no Shiro, which specializes in architecture for kids, used local materials, such as concrete blocks with holes and red wall tiles, to protect children from the lash...
