In olden times, students were taught in open environments under the trees. We have been inspired by this concept as it helps children connect with nature. It is a wonderful way to learn various life skills, and presents an opportunity for kids to run, jump, slide, make a mess and explore themselves in an informal way.
The design of a new eco-kindergarten by LAVA with Module K and Viet Décor features spaces encouraging curiosity, activity-based learning and interaction with nature for the next generation of Vietnamese children.
The kindergarten in Vinh, near Hanoi, Vietnam, unfolds with three semicircular buildings over three levels linked by bridges generating a series of interconnected indoor and outdoor spaces that are playful and safe while making an architectural statement.
Client: Hoo Goong Education Development & Investment
Partner: Module K
Interiors: Viet Décor
Project team: Dong Viet Ngoc Bao, Do Thi Duong Thi, Vu Ngoc Anh, Nguyen Truong Ngan, Cao Trung Nguyen, Trinh Tien Vinh, Bui Quang Khanh, Nguyen Thi Ngoc Hanh, Tran Minh Triet, Nguyen Le Yen Oanh, Pham Duy Bao Long, Nguyen Phuc Anh Thu
Educational Consultant: Great Concept Vietnam Mai Nhung
Exemplifying a balance of form and function, the Bigfork High School remodel and expansion was driven by the existing site’s unique opportunities, characteristics, and systems. Proper planning, scheduling, budgeting, and careful coordination between design and construction allowed for the school to remain operational with minimal disruption to teaching and learning. In the completed project, a centralized “commons” area is the focal point of design, allowing space for congregation and event spillover, as well as serving as a central access point to new areas like the library, choir/band complex, expanded gym, student store, guidance counselor suite, and additional classrooms.
Structural Engineer: Zachary Diede, Structural Engineer Sr
Design team: Shane Jacobs, Alan Petersen, Frances Quiram, Frederick Dickinson, Casey O’Harren T, Trent Schwartzkopf, Sawyer Arneson-Nelson, Alan Taylor T, Scott Galli, Michael Kaufman, David Koel, Shawn Pauly, Corey Johnson, David Mitchell, Robbie Mathiason
Lingbao City is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Sanmenxia City, Henan Province. This was a building renovation project located in a community in the north of Lingbao. Later, it became a child growth and development center of the area. Before transformation, the original building was of low quality, with cramped space, and an unfinished office building was on the opposite to its south side. And the construction period for the project was tight. What’s more, this was the first time for a well-known Chinese preschool education institution to develop the county-level city market, so the conservative expectations of the local market led the start-up capital relatively limited.
Design Team: Zhang Hetian, Fan Yonggang, XuXuan, Wang Jinhua, Liu Qi, Zhang Jinxian, Meng Xiangtao, Zhang Yulong, Li Bin, Wang Shuang, Sun Jihua, Liu Jing
Clients: Yangguangyulu Group
Landscape: unarchitecte
Construction Company: Jiangsu Xuanheng Construction Intelligentized Engineering Co., Ltd etc.
Collaborators: Superstructure
Gross Built Area: 11235.06sqm (Building Renovation 7139.58sqm, Outdoor activity area 4095.48sqm)
The “Hello BABY” children’s center is located on the first floor of a residential complex in the central part of the city of Dnipro.
Initially, the architects of SVOYA STUDIO had the task to design a new additional space for the existing center with their own identity. In the process, the name and branding were developed anew by Alexander Sidorenko, according to a new design concept.
NEW INFRASTRUCTURES is Think Forward 4th intervention in \”St. St. Cyril and Methodius\” school in Sveti Vlas, Bulgaria. NEW INFRASTRUCTURES is a project for renovating the school hallways. The existing hallways are child-unfriendly, poorly lit with compromised acoustic environment causing echoing. The sole purpose of the hallways is as a functional link between different school zones. Think Forward renovation proposal aims at transforming the space into new spatial infrastructure, social infrastructure, and infrastructure of values.
The new settlement plays a central role for the town defying the square through its cantilever porticoes and structure contiguity. In the space hierarchy, the three volumes, enriched by a brick covering, create an urban space where the public becomes community.
The urban fabric, matrix of the project, defies its external and internal areas, designs spaces and paths that continually interact with each other. The different height levels emphasize these spaces and allow them to be worked in section.
Mount Royal University’s Taylor Centre for the Performing Arts is a welcoming and dynamic environment for both music performance and education. In use by the Mount Royal Conservatory, established in Calgary in 1910, the facility was designed to provide music education for the entire university and community at large, including students from age 3 to adulthood, and also to express connection to place and the direct correlation between the learning and performance of music. The design expresses the unique geography and history of Calgary, located at the heart of Alberta, where the western prairies meet the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains. The area’s iconic imagery includes the lone barn on the vast open prairie landscape; the teepees of the region’s aboriginal inhabitants the Scarce and the Stony peoples; and the Alberta rose, which blooms wild and is the province’s official floral emblem. These elements inspired and informed the design process, beginning with the structure and form-making to the deliberate lighting, colors and finish material selections.
On the side of Fangshan scenic spot in Nanjing, Fangshan campus of Nanjing Foreign Language School stands quietly, wrapped in red bricks and adjacent to Nanguang College in the south and California city community in the north. This is an international school that includes primary school, middle school, ordinary high school, and international high school. Although it has been put into use for a short period of time, it has aroused unusual attentions.
The new elementary school freely complements the development on the outskirts of the suburban village and with its distinctive archetypal silhouette completes its visual identity. The building with cluster arrangement of classrooms is designed in a passive energy standard with an emphasis on quality common spaces and serves as a community center of the municipality.
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