Flying colours: chromatic school spaces
Texte par Alun Lennon
03.06.20
Colour is a powerful tool – not least when it’s deployed in education projects, where a judicious chromatic specification can boost concentration, performance and well-being.
The Enrico Fermi School by Turin’s BDR Bureau: ‘New spatial elements, transparencies and additions reinterpret the original structure with the aim of opening the school to the city’. Photo: © Simone Bossi
The Enrico Fermi School by Turin’s BDR Bureau: ‘New spatial elements, transparencies and additions reinterpret the original structure with the aim of opening the school to the city’. Photo: © Simone Bossi
×There are many things that help create the right conditions for learning: Good teachers, mutual respect and teamwork, to name but a few. Another obvious, yet key, factor is the physical space where education happens, with the use of colour playing an important role in stimulating and inspiring young minds and engendering feelings of well-being and belonging.
Here, we offer an international survey of school projects where the chromatic gets top marks.
01
The Rajasthan School
Ras, India
Project by Sanjay Puri Architects
The Rajasthan School by Sanjay Puri Architects wich imbibes the organic character of Indian villages & old cities, is a low rise school on three levels with open, enclosed and semi-enclosed spaces of varying volumes.
Photos: Dinesh Mehta
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02
Hilltop School
Hyderabad, India
Project by Designaware
For their Hilltop School project located within the walls of the majestic Golconda fort in Hyderabad, Designaware designed bright and fun spaces, which would encourage learning and growth.
Photos: Akhila Rao and Ujjwal Sannala (top, middle), Takbir Fatima (bottom)
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03
Žnjan - Pazdigrad Primary School
Split, Croatia
Project by x3m
The project, by Zagreb-based office x3m, is located on the outskirts of Split, in an area that has for at the least 20 years been in transition from agricultural suburbia to a ‘proper’ residential quarter. The school is designed not just as a place of education, but also as a collective space for the entire neighbourhood.
Photos: Bosnić+Dorotić
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04
Enrico Fermi School
Turin, Italy
Project by BDR Bureau
The new Enrico Fermi School in Turin by local architectural firm BDR bureau embodies a cultural, pedagogical and architectural reflection on the new learning spaces of the Italian school, in which the school becomes an integral part of the community and merges with the urban fabric.
Photos: © Simone Bossi
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05
Gesamtschule Rheda Wiedenbrück
Germany
Project by Sigurd Larsen
Rather than classrooms and hallways, Berlin Based Danish Architect Sigurd Larsen and his team developed a new vocabulary of spaces. Places for group work, project-based teaching, individual homework, as well as creative and physical activities, are found here.
Photos: Sigurd Larsen Design & Architecture
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