PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE PROJECTS - Education

The twentieth century saw new developments, of varying quality, filling land and replacing older buildings in Australia’s cities to meet the demands of a growing population. While the pressure to accommodate growth continues, today’s environmental crisis requires a different approach that must work with these built legacies as the starting point. Retention or minimal bui...

NINHO — João de Barro Module by BIRI and MACH arquitetos at the Vila Ninho School fosters community participation and adaptable learning spaces in Brazil. Located in the Cerrado region of Minas Gerais, the space utilizes a modular grid and natural materials to create flexible and engaging educational environments, exploring the role of the physical environment in pedagog...

The current school is characterized as a single-storey building that extends over the entire location in two wings. Due to these low buildings, the function of the building is difficult to read, and there is no clear recognition of an entrance. In the school, the group rooms are adjacent to long corridors without a 'heart' or meeting space. The design was developed from ...

MVRDV, the Dutch architects known for their playful, audacious transformations, have turned this brutalist relic of oppression into an effervescent hub for youth, creativity, and—perhaps most symbolically—free thinking. With steps added to the building’s sloping façades, allowing the people of Albania to literally walk all over it, and a constellation of vibrantly colou...

The 152,250 square-foot campus is aiming to be the largest net zero educational facility in the country once it is completed. Lady Bird Johnson Middle School, the eighth middle school for Irving ISD, will serve approximately 900 students, grades six through eight. This facility will incorporate geothermal HVAC, passive solar interior daylighting, an efficient building en...

The School District of North Chicago received a transformative $40 million grant from AbbVie. North Chicago, a unique black and brown suburban city in Chicagoland, has faced disinvestment for too long. The five-story building features a sports field, outdoor learning spaces, and centralized nodes promoting togetherness for middle school students and staff. Its verticalit...

This project includes 16 classrooms, comprising a new kindergarten, an extension of six classrooms for the elementary school, and a recreation center. Area: 2,000 m². Budget: €7.10 million. The Les Violettes school complex is a village within the village of Mareil-Marly. Located on the heights of the town, the site is bordered by numerous remarkable trees and enjoys an u...

Nearly a century later, a new campus in the city’s innovation district 22@ in the El Poblenou marks a significant step forward, merging the legacy of Felicidad Duce's pioneering fashion school with the innovative spirit of Canadian network LCI Education, which acquired the school in 2013. Designed by local architecture practice Circular Studio, LCI Barcelona's new premis...

To see the work of great 17th-century painter Paul Rubens, you need to go to the Rubens Hall in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp where his masterpiece Adoration of the Magi hangs alongside other works that speak to his amazing range and empathy. To understand who he was, though, you need to visit the far smaller Rubenshuis and its gardens nearby, recently given a...

SLAS Architekci takes to the Polish city of Jastrzębie-Zdrój to complete a glimmering new concert hall. The city is defined by its unique origins, both as a resort town and an industrial hub centered on coal mining. The newly completed project marks a contemporary extension for the State Music School, and embodies its site’s duality by serving as a cultural and education...

The architectural design of the school is a compelling example of how thoughtful spatial planning and materiality can transform educational spaces into nurturing environments that foster creativity, community, and sustainability. Concept – Simple U shape plan meeting the function requirement, creating rich green courtyard space as much as possible to let in the sunshine...

The school was completed and ready for occupancy in 2024 and is designed for 630 students in grades 7-9, as well as students with intellectual disabilities in compulsory school. The building also houses a cultural school and a sports hall with associated facilities for the sports and association administration. An important starting point for the design of the school ha...

It is a first-of-its-kind institute and the only International School in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India, that has: in its core value a vision to provide education that is unconventional by standards; in its heart to go beyond what other pre-schools in the region provide; and in its brief to bring a paradigm shift in early education through thoughtful architectural de...

The majority of the residential and educational buildings in this area were built post-war, and are distributed within an intensive green space reminiscent of an urban park, which lends this mixed-use environment a distinct atmosphere. Starting in the early 1970s, the university campus was built in several phases with explicitly late modernist characteristics. A dormito...

Located in the fast-growing suburb of Broadmeadows on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation, Meadows Primary School was given funding to upgrade its existing facilities to accommodate an extra 200 students by 2020. Working with a tight budget and an accelerated construction timeline, Project 12 Architecture – alongside Meadows Primary staff, the ...

With this Québec school project in the heart of Saguenay in the Chicoutimi district, three architectural firms joined forces to break the boundaries in education architecture. Agence Spatiale, Appareil Architecture and BGLA architecture took on the challenge to redesign a school which now inspires and redefines its entire genre. École de l’Étincelle is set in Joachim Pa...

For many years, Wangaratta District Specialist School (WDSS) in north-eastern Victoria has operated out of buildings dating back to the 1980s, supplemented by a row of portables that conspicuously borders the school’s street frontage. Tucked away amid these aging structures is Sibling Architecture’s recent addition, undertaken for the Victorian School Buildings Authority...

The kindergarten, built in a small provincial town, features white exterior walls with windows in the shape of local yao-tung arches. Sunlight from the glass roof penetrates and reflects off the colored glass of the balustrade, creating shades of various colors. The entire atrium is like a kaleidoscope that is constantly changing from moment to moment. A total of 438 p...

KENGO KUMA UNVEILS ‘KIKI’S MUSEUM OF LITERATURE’ In honor of author Eiko Kadono, Kengo Kuma and Associates designs a hilltop museum for children‘s literature. Defined by its playful geometries finished in pink and white, the museum overlooks Nagisa Park in Edogawa City, Tokyo. The design team expects the building to open by the summer of 2023, at which point visitors ...

Aiming to challenge typical kindergarten architecture, Atelier Apeiron designed the building to resemble a town, adding a planting around its edges to evoke a small forest. "Children need a small town, rather than just a row of classrooms," explained studio founder Yunchao Xu. "Surrounded by green trees, new blocks rise gently, and the flowing space slowly blooms, infu...

Marshgate is designed to create a collaborative and cross-disciplinary educational environment focused on finding solutions to today’s biggest social, environmental, and technological challenges, drawing on the shared knowledge and expertise of the many faculties that will converge at the new East London campus. The landmark scheme, UCL’s largest single building, offers...

The building site sits on the south east point of the campus which is spread over 9 Acres and is one of the leading schools in India with over 4500 students. It was only logical for us to respond to the unparalleled excellence of the educational institute by curating a remarkable experience that was yet to unfold since 1991, the year this school was established. “The cur...

This brand new space is located in the Old Customs House – the Fondation J. Armand Bombardier Building. The two agencies are combining their strengths in experiential design and interior architecture to create an educational space for school workshops. The mission is to introduce groups of students to history and archaeology through a variety of activities in an environm...

Located in the Dasha River Ecological Corridor, the 300-square-metre building by Atelier Xi provides a children's reading room, public restrooms and a viewing balcony with seating areas for visitors and residents. "The building performs like a rising spiral art sculpture, returning as much ground spaces as possible for plant growth and tourist activities," founding prin...

Akaike Tohyama Architects designs Himawari Nursery School in Musashimurayama City, Tokyo, relocating and expanding the original structure. Situated in the residential expanse extending toward the Musashino Plateau and Sayama Hills, the project reimagines early childhood education. Departing from the previous two-story RC structure that segmented children’s activities...

Called The Science and Environmental Center, the structure is an expansion of the campus for the Nueva School in Hillsborough, Silicon Valley. The campus comprises an 11,600-square-foot (1,077 square-metre) two-storey building on a 33-acre site, with an oak forest that was restored as part of the project. "The design integrates straightforward, appropriate, and cost-ef...

Inspired by the hilly terrain of the site, the design idea for the campus is to create a series of ground planes at different altitudes to support various learning activities. These are platforms with varying sense of enclosure from the enclosed to the semi-outdoor, or open-to sky terraces. It is on these platforms that the learning spaces for the various levels are orga...

This covered outdoor space is an access, meeting and recreation area at the same time. The circular staircases have their entry and exit at the same point and directly connect the entrances of the building. The basic structural-architectural principle is based on the need for spatial flexibility. The static framework is built in concrete and based on a modular principal...

Designing a school building means imagining the script of how children, together with their teachers and parents, discover the world and learn to be citizens of it. I imagined this building as a source of the horizontality typical of the Ghedi area. The line of the fertile plain, the educational excellence of the Ghedi school district also in relation to agriculture as a...

The site was filled with Hinoki trees when we first visited. The sunlight penetrating scarcely through the branches spread plentiful light bubbles overlapping each other on the ground, from which we got inspired to create a sunlit place softly floating in the woods. Its topographical feature - the undulating slope and the hill rising up to 3-4 meters to the west of the s...

The project is designed with respect for the existing architectural heritage. The extension, which most notably houses a cafeteria intended for the children of the nursery and primary school, is implanted along Finkwiller Street, and acts as a common interface between both schools, highlighted by a patio. The concept is to create a layered piece of architecture which “em...

Located in Rwanda's Eastern Province, BE_Design's local office worked with Rwanda Village Enterprises to create the centre, which provides spaces for health, education, and mentorship programs for young women, as well as community areas. Comprised of a cluster of blocks, the Komera Leadership Centre is focused around a large, flexible space at its heart, where a set of ...

The Phive project, designed by Manuelle Gautrand Architect, is a dynamic public and cultural facility situated within Parramatta Square, a bustling business district in west Sydney. This structure emerged as the winning proposal from a competition in 2016, featuring a multitude of community spaces and exhibition areas surrounding the main library as well as the City of P...

The sports hall as well as the round building with class rooms are limited in height, well-integrated in the green surroundings. The sports hall is a concrete tub, sunk 3 meters under ground level to limit the visible height. The building of class rooms has a circular plan with a diameter of 32 meters and is erected in masonry and a concrete core. Both buildings are shu...

Cities have always known how to rebuild themselves. The former Montlaur military district is no exception and has just opened up to its conversion. Three limestone windmills are erect in the landscape. With these Genoese towers, the physical mighty strength is emphasized. The symbol of the cloister stands out and with its quadrilateral shape it shelters in its lair an in...

Project: ­­­ University of Semnan Auditorium and Library Location: SEMNAN (University of Semnan campus) Gross Area: 14000 SQM Architects_Principal and Director: LIDA ALMASSIAN / SHAHIN HEIDARI Team: Sara Farahani, Maryam Amanpour, Zahra Hamedani, Neda Dehghani, Maryam Ayoubi, Maryam Shokouhi, Narges Dehghani, Rana Abbasi, Golrokh Heydarian, Pary Pourmoghadam Stru...