The site on the KTH campus, with its very tangible cultural and historical context and its physical limitations, could be described as the opposite of a blank slate (Tabula Rasa). The new school is inserted into an existing courtyard space with existing pathways and is located adjacent to Erik Lallerstedt’s original and quite monumental brick buildings from the early twentieth century.
Based on the logic of a free campus layout that encourages movement, the idea is to accomodate and encourage circulation within the building and all around it as a way of thoroughly integrating and anchoring the new school to the site. With its rounded contours and a total of six floors, the school building includes a sunken garden and a roof terrace, while cultivating the character of the courtyard as one continuous space. The deep red CorTen steel exterior relates to the dark red brick of existing buildings.
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The Kindergarten is located as part of a local Armenian community’s school campus in the Northern suburbs of Beirut.
The campus presents a rare green lung in a residential development that has developed in the area.
In a city with little green space, the single floor layout of the design of the Kindergarten provides back to the city its entire footprint under the form of a green roof that blends with its surroundings.
Article source: Asante Architecture & Design and Lönnqvist &Vanamo Architects
A Self-Sustainable Children’s Center In Tanzania By Asante Architecture & Design And Lönnqvist & Vanamo Architects
Econef Children’s Center is a collaboration with Asante Architecture & Design, Lönnqvist & Vanamo Architects, Architects Without Borders Sweden, Engineers Without Borders Sweden and ECONEF, a Swedish-Tanzanian NGO that aims to improve the standard of living for orphans in the Arusha area.
ECONEF is an independent non-governmental organization located in Jua-kali, outside Arusha in northern Tanzania. With the help of private donations ECONEF is able to offer security and everyday necessities for the 16 children living at the Jua Kali orphanage. The new Children’s Center includes sleeping quarters and classrooms for 25 children.
The urban regeneration zone of Clichy- Batignolles covers over 133 acres of land (54 hectares).
Located in the 17th Parisian precinct, it is one of the most ambitious urban projects currently led by the city.
The site bears the historical signs of transportation and logistics activities, facilitated by the train lines leading to Saint Lazare train station and the close beltway. Therefore, the stakes of the project can be summarized by the single idea of designing a dense built environment for this neighborhood. Hence creating the possibility to include this isolated railway site into a very much needed urban continuity.
Article source: Studio Ard Hoksbergen i.c.w. Studioninedots
Preface
Veerkracht is a multi-cultural, Christian primary school in Slotermeer, Amsterdam. The original school was built in 1960 as the Dr. M.B. van ‘t Veerschool, designed by G.A. Roobol, who started his career at H.P. Berlage.
In the summer of 2013, the school board did a request for a new building and organised a competition, which was won in 2014 by Ard Hoksbergen. For the project, a collaboration was made with Studioninedots, an Amsterdam based architecture office with extensive experience in school design.
Gökçeada High School Campus consists of a high school, a vocational school, a dormitory, a sports center, a conference hall, and a library. The campus is situated on Gökçeada Island in Aegean Sea. PAB Architects won the architectural competition in 2014 and the realized design is in use by 2019. The design of the campus proposes an alternative, innovative and participatory learning environment which puts the student in a central role.
Educational buildings and centres of learning should offer everyone the oppurtunity to flourish and find their place in a society that is more and more autonomous. State schools are places of diversity and merging, and early years learning is the first step in a human being’s long journey through education, and learning about collectivity within a group. In residential areas, public buildings are a landmark and a meeting point.
The pine trees at the northwestern corner of this site form a gateway into the site. The pine grove gives onto a succession of patios, lawns, green roofs, pines, other trees and plant-covered partitions that create a transitional landscape. The building hovers between two layers of forest, one indoors, the other outdoors, creating an instant link with nature and the surrounding landscape.
Just outside the Portland, Oregon, city limits, Rockwood is among the most diverse and lowest income areas in the metro area. Three non-profit organizations Open School, Boys & Girls Club of Portland, and New Avenues for Youth came together to create a two-building, 3.5-acre non-profit campus to support the neighborhood’s community of underserved youth. The campus delivers places for kids of all ages to learn, play, and socialize. The concurrent development of the two buildings enabled the organizations to create shared facilities that reduced initial capital investment.
Kulturhus Stompwijk is the new iconic living room in the village of Stompwijk for members of every generation.
The building houses the village community centre and a primary school with day-care centre and library.
The building is designed by Archipelontwerpers to be future proof. The distinct shape and orientation of the roof is designed to maximize the return of the solar panels. The building is not connected to the gas network and provides in its own energy-demand. Besides that, the design meets the highest standards in indoor climatic conditions, daylight and acoustics.
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