the overall concept of the 1,000 sqm scheme was to facilitate 160 children in a secure and generous space easily accessible to outdoor playing. this led to the offices, admin, staff and kitchen being arranged on the outer perimeter between the entrance and nursery to ensure convenience and security. a man-made playground has been placed in the core of the a circular ring...
Schools, social housing, swimming pools, museums non only in Paris. French policy is responding to some of the country’s social problems and looks at the future through investments in education. – Made almost entirely of prefabricated elements, the residential complex signed by Lacaton&Vassal in Mulhouse, France, has a markedly industrial look and big, flexible interi...
curator alejandro morales teamed up with urbánika architects for the project to restore the disused vessel. the original floor was repaired and rectangular windows were inserted at the top of the structure, allowing natural light to fill the interior. the addition of a small lounge and reading area was added, creating a warm environment for people to meet, relax and to e...
conceived as a place of intellectual, institutional and educational exchange, the 90,000-square-foot building is organized around a variety of meeting spaces. the program — including the number, size and type of rooms — was informed by focus groups and one-on-one consultation with more than 100 faculty and staff from across the university. the design includes a two-s...
What were the circumstances of receiving the commission for this project? We were invited by the New York City School Construction Authority (SCA) to compete for the commission. Bruce Barrett, the SCA’s vice president for architecture and engineering, envisioned P.S. 62 as a pilot project to help the city explore strategies for reducing its carbon footprint. It is New Y...
We proposed to have another added-value, other than learning and acquiring technical knowledge, incorporated in the space, in addition to the value of going to the school. That is to make friends. We proposed to change the place into a place for the variety of people who go to the school to be able to mingle each other by crossing over the walls such as an age, a major...
What were the circumstances of receiving the commission for this project? A new superintendent for the Pella Community School District invited three firms to interview in order to provide master planning services. We have worked with the school district before and were awarded the master planning project. In order to build community consensus, we organized community mee...
The workshop-house project conceived by Paula Sertório and Victor Paixão from Pax-Arq was designed to host a residence, a high-performance mechanical workshop and classrooms in a 260 sqm terrain, commissioned by Tecnomec and located in the Pinheiros neighborhood, São Paulo. The programmatic activities were distributed in a specific way in order to balance funcional and ...
Built for just $5,400 USD, the library serves 408 primary school students in the village of Mailisita and the surrounding area in the Kilimanjaro region. The low-cost library operates off the grid and is built solely from local materials using traditional construction methods. Since the Njoro Children’s Library is located in a fairly remote area on the lower slopes of M...
The 250 student residences are located in three interconnected 15-storey buildings. This means that the residence has no front or back, but appears attractive from a 360-degree perspective. The building's distinctive shape will make it easily recognizable on the campus, and clearly advertises its distinct residential content. The project constitutes a link between the...
In a 36.000 square meters heritage building built in 1896, studio Taktik Design took the challenge to redesign room layouts, furniture and communications of the Sainte-Anne Academy elementary school. After the initial solutions proposed, the Canadian studio was given carte blanche to create an efficient environment that accommodates the latest teaching standards. The ...
The project started as a result of research work and a study completed in the community of Santa Elena. This was accomplished through reunions, interviews, and participatory workshops within the population. The data collected revealed dreams and expectations in favor of education of their children. For this reason, the community expressed the willingness to rebuild its ...
Located on Beyazit Square, the library was first founded in 1884 and sits in a historical context, adjacent to the Beyazit Mosque – the oldest surviving imperial mosque in the city – and located on the main axis of Istanbul's historical heart, Divan Yolu. Previous uses of the building had involved it being everything from a soup kitchen to a traditional inn (or 'caravans...
The new library building complements the urban block by adding a curved brick facade, integrated within the street line formed by the adjacent buildings. The architectural starting point - the cityscape considered - was a vision of a unique public building that will suit its surroundings in terms of its materials, design and height. The dense fenestration grid, which...
Completed in June 2015, the 763-square-meter edifice is a beautiful example of contemporary design that freely communicates with its rural surroundings as well as the 14th-century castle that dominates the site from a nearby hillside. Echoing the orthonormal geometry of this fortified castle, the nursery is arranged in multiple crowns that form a solid shape, which the d...
Setting benchmarks worldwide for engineering education, The Bergeron Centre for Engineering Excellence re-thinks campus hierarchy to foster modern ways of learning. Resulting from an intensive design process between ZAS Architects, The Lassonde School of Engineering, and York University, the world-class facility challenges past models with a modern approach rooted in stu...
The Seashore Library, designed by the Beijing-based studio Vector Architects in 2015, portrays the endless interaction between the manmade and the natural where light, wind and the sound of the ocean enter uninterrupted into the building’s spaces to accentuate its austere lines. The 450-square-meter structure is divided between two levels with the ground level compris...
The edifice is a part of the university’s laboratory buildings complex and is connected to it by a covered walkway. The NIBN building is comprised of four levels: three for laboratories and researchers' offices, standing above a transparent ground floor for general public functions such as foyer, faculty lounge, auditorium, cafeteria, and seminar room. These latter op...
The changing educational landscape calls for a learning environment that is continually linked to society and the world around it. That was also our brief from Erasmus University Rotterdam. They approached us to design both the interior and exterior of the new university building. This was the perfect opportunity for us to design a fully-integrated and sustainable buildi...
Because this is the faculty of physical education and sports, it was natural to transfer the topic of sport to the design of the interior. The idea was an athletic oval that determined the character of furniture and seating, which is fabricated on two levels: standard by the table on footstools and casual on the platform in three height levels. Technical equipment contai...
the architectural concept references the reggio emilio methodology of teaching preschool kids and the design took standardized precast concrete elements of various shapes and sizes and used them to create window openings and hollow columns. these elements mimic children’s building blocks and contribute to a fascinating play of light and shadows within the building, which...
the rainbow-like façades are created through the application of emulsion paint on profiled precast concrete spandrels, used in tandem with colored aluminum shading shelves. part of the previously existing campus had been reserved for demolition as it no longer provided a modern teaching environment. the previous buildings, particularly the large kindergarten, had not...
the upper level accommodates theoretical work and quiet reading and working areas. the new aarch reuses the existing buildings as a new social hub to connect the public with the school over food, exhibitions and events. the design integrates the existing buildings and offers them a new lease of life by transforming the former institut for (x) and the northern buildings i...
lightweight ropes spanning from the existing roof to the ground wrap the exterior. they have been installed diagonally and layered to diminish the original building’s rigidness and add richness without blocking natural light. additionally, to provide ease for orientation, the ropes’ color follows the same color palette as the interiors. the large available space call...
The building will offer library space, two floors dedicated to childcare and a special area for startups to try out emerging manufacturing techniques. A restaurant will occupy the top floor, offering expansive views of the city's Tumbalong Park, the Chinese Gardens and Cockle Bay. The building will be located at Darling Harbor, adjacent to the city center, and will in...
Downhill the site faces an important campus square next to an entrance gate. The design exploits this challenging context proposing a morphed and weaved version of the classroom archetype. As it reaches to the ground the building open ups, bisects and expands. This creates multiple public and external spaces at various levels and configurations. Exploiting the landscape ...
The Soyoo Joyful Growth Center occupies one of a trio of disused buildings in the city's new financial centre, which was masterplanned by the late Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa in the early 2000s. The cylindrical buildings have remained untenanted since they were built as a business centre 10 years ago. The challenge for Beijing- and Frankfurt-based Crossbounda...
Single point deliverer Morgan Sindall worked alongside sustainable architects Architype to conceive the innovative thatch façade. Three hundred prefabricated panels were built and sent to master thatcher Stephen Letch for final touches. This made for easy construction at the building site and serves as part of the center’s 70 percent bio-based material claim. One main...
Kraus Schoenberg Architects separated the building into a cluster of compact units that offer views of other rooms through large openings, in order to create a sense of connectedness between the children. Enveloped in rough-sawn larch boards, the volumes create a connection to the surrounding nature. The central atrium is surrounded by corridors that create the cloist...
Built on the site of a former industrial area in the north-east of Angoulême, the Alpha media library delivered by loci anima brings added value to the Houmeau district, which is being radically overhauled, improving the social and cultural life of people in this area. Inspired by the Scandinavian model, this building is concrete evidence of a new generation of cultur...
Asif Khan has designed an elevated playground for Chisenhale Primary School in Bow, East London, which has just completed construction and is the first part of the school’s long-term masterplan. The challenging brief required an increase in the play area of this inner city primary school to match the expanded pupil population, without reducing the space required by the ...
Implanted in the district of lower Joinville on the avenue of General Gallieni, the municipal School of dance in Joinville-le-Pont is a response to the cultural approach of the town. The Avenue du General Gallieni as a future Metropolitan Avenue is a busy main road; its traffic is intense, noisy, but the vibrant living environment brings a growing centrality on this tho...
providing an educational space to children aged 5-10 who have been affected by the natural disaster, junsekino worked with locals to transform the severely damaged local school. the brief called for four classrooms with a central activity space to allow children to run and play. the steel structure is supported by a flexible skeletal frame which aids in absorbing potenti...
the scheme, which is backed by development firm lendlease, also features an adjoining public plaza designed by local practice aspect studios. known as ‘the darling exchange’, the civic center contains: a library with spaces to support creative and technology startups; a ground floor market hall; a childcare center; and a rooftop bar with views over the neighboring tumbal...
The kindergarten, which has children from 3-6 yrs, is home to a custom-designed mountain with caves underneath for the children to play in.The kindergarten also has a large chess set for the children to play.There’s also stepped seating with storage for children’s toys and books.
Children attending this kitty-kindergarten must be thrilled to go every day, learn and play in a building with that extraordinary shape. Topped by a green fur-like roof, the metal and concrete feline sits looking at every kid come in through its mouth every morning, as if they were being eaten. Its big round eyes are actually windows that flood its two-levels with plenty...
