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Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Sonnwendviertel Education Campus in Vienna, Austria by PPAG architectsOctober 22nd, 2017 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: PPAG architects The Sonnwendviertel Education Campus on the site of the main railway station is the fi rst educational building in Vienna to be put out to tender on a target-oriented as opposed to a solution-oriented basis. The basis for the competition tender was the “catalogue of qualities” describing all facets of modern educational routine in schools. Observing a maximum fl oor space and without limiting freedom, the aim was to fi nd an educational building which corresponds most closely to the demands of modern education.  Image Courtesy © Hertha Hernaus
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 Image Courtesy © Hertha Hernaus Current education is geared to individual attention for each child. Not instructional teaching (teacher-centred teaching) is to the fore, but free learning and projectbased lessons. Changing groups of children, in some cases of different ages, tackle tasks, work on projects or receive special support and encouragement.  Image Courtesy © Hertha Hernaus  Image Courtesy © Hertha Hernaus The Sonnwendviertel Education Campus is Vienna’s fourth education campus after Monte Laa, Nordbahnhof and Donaustadt, the fi rst with a modern, educationalspatial concept and the fi rst to comprise a secondary school in addition to a nursery and primary school. On the one hand, the campus model takes advantage of economic synergies (shared gym, library, etc.), above all breaking down the rigid psychological divides between the separate schools. The serious side of life doesn’t begin right after, or only after, nursery school, and four-year-olds interested in mathematics can sit in on maths classes in primary school.  Image Courtesy © Hertha Hernaus  Image Courtesy © Hertha Hernaus The Education Campus is an all-day, all-year facility with combined classes in the schools. For the fi rst time, the leisure areas were therefore not built separate (no daycare or after-school classes, etc.), instead a “living school” concept was developed. 1100 children aged 0–14 will attend the Education Campus at capacity. Roughly one third each the nursery, primary, and secondary school. Only manageable subgroups enable a sensible social fabric in terms of education. Between staff (1st teacher) and schoolhouse (3rd teacher) – as the jargon has it – come the fellow students, the 2nd teachers who learn from each other. Hence, each educational facility (nursery, primary, secondary school) consists of four clusters (2 on the ground fl oor, 2 on the top floor).  Image Courtesy © Hertha Hernaus  Image Courtesy © Hertha Hernaus In each cluster four classrooms, one project room, and a team room for teachers are arranged around a market-place (fully furnishable common area that can be used for teaching). The teachers also “live” in the same “village” (roughly 100 children plus staff).  Image Courtesy © Hertha Hernaus  Image Courtesy © Hertha Hernaus  Image Courtesy © PPAG architects  Image Courtesy © PPAG architects  Image Courtesy © PPAG architects  Image Courtesy © PPAG architects  Image Courtesy © PPAG architects  Image Courtesy © PPAG architects  Image Courtesy © PPAG architects  Image Courtesy © PPAG architects  Image Courtesy © PPAG architects
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