Erlev School is a pioneering project with strong ambitions for the Danish city of Haderslev. It is the first “new-generation” timber school located in Denmark and one of the very first of its kind in Scandinavia. In August 2021, the school won the national award “Best School Building of the Year 2021”.
Erlev School is, in many ways, unique in its appearance. From the start, the project focused on achieving a high level of social, economic, and environmental sustainability. The City of Haderslev had a clear ambition to push the boundaries of traditional school architecture. This inspired the architects to create a project where design, construction and materials were experimented with in new ways.
Behnisch Architekten has created a whole new school campus in Filderstadt, south of Stuttgart. The competition for the project stipulated that the existing site, comprising the Gotthard-Müller School, an affiliated sports hall, and the neighboring Fleinsbach School, should receive an architectural upgrade and be adapted to the demands of the new pedagogical concept, which features a form of “all-day school care.” The task was to create a new building for the Gotthard-Müller elementary (Grundschule) and community school (Gemeinschaftsschule) that would accommodate two parallel classes in each grade, as well as an extension area catering to the Fleinsbach junior high school (Realschule) and a cafeteria for general student use all integrated into a single school campus.
The Middle School building is located as an extension of the Elementary building of the Benjamin Franklin International School Campus in the Sarrià neighborhood of Barcelona. These two buildings share a dividing wall and will be connected to each other by the corridor.
Volume aligned with the playground, has a ground floor, basement, three floors and an accessible roof for a playground. The ground floor is used almost entirely for the library and media library rooms. In the upper levels, the typological model proposed is compact with a central corridor, where classrooms and offices for teachers are placed on each side. The corridors, due to their size, and areas of relationship, function as an extension of the same classroom, being able to bring teaching to them, making teaching even more flexible. Laboratories and storages are located in the basement.
A secondary comprehensive school is located in the European Riverfront district of Novosibirsk, part of a large-scale redevelopment project realised by Brusnika company. Currently 30 houses have been constructed with over 7000 residents living there.
Being an essential social object, the school was integrated into the district’s structure at the stage of its master plan development. The building is located in the heart of the district so that its central entrance is at the crossroads of two major streets of the residential area. The school is well visible from a variety of vantage points and due to its large-scale plot features an important public space.
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The proposed expansion to the North Park Academy would create a dramatic new addition to a historic but undistinguished existing school. Occupying an unusual triangular site, the bold form of the new structure would offer an appealing visual termination to the axis of the avenue approaching the school.
Two Rivers Public Charter School is a network of high-performing public charter schools in Washington DC. The new middle school at Young campus is a state-of-the-art facility featuring large classrooms, dedicated common space, a full-sized gymnasium, outdoor courts, sun-filled atrium and the signature ‘sitting steps’ in the foyer. This school serves 6th through 8th graders and is connected to the existing elementary school via an elevated bridge. Special instruction rooms include art, drama, music, Spanish, science lab, and breakout instructional spaces.
Located on previously vacant land in the Crenshaw neighborhood of Los Angeles, Bright Star School’s Stella Middle Charter Academy, designed by Berliner Architects, is a valuable addition to the community, providing new facilities and resources. The neighboring Baptist Church planned its development. Through the shared use of a large parking lot and new school gymnasium, the 500-student charter school and the church both benefit. The Bright Star charter school organization provides quality educational opportunities to students in underserved areas, encouraging kids to be critical thinkers and problem-solvers. The design of the school communicates this mission to the community and sends the message that quality education and learning is happening there.
Our client New Shoots saw an opportunity in a site which many others thought was unusable. Originally, the site was split into two areas by a stream and had become an abandoned and neglected wasteland that stored and collected motorway run-off. The site was overgrown and an eyesore in an otherwise attractive neighborhood.
Our brief was to rejuvenate the site by creating a nature-centric design that interweaves environment and classroom, while achieving the client’s programmatic requirements and integrating sustainable practices.
Escoffier High School’s trains for catering and hotel trade jobs. The new dining rooms’ spaces become places of relaxation and conviviality bringing a real calm moment during the day like the restaurants. The extended dining room can host 485 people, divided in two and a half services. The fine volume already existing is kept.
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