Schools

A triangular school building creates various unique places—a new approach to school building design. When designing a school building, it is common practice to arrange rows of classrooms along a schoolyard and connect those rooms by corridors. Since the modern school system was established in the Meiji Era (1868-1912) and buildings categorized as school buildings emerged in Japan, many such building plans have been produced throughout the country. The diversifying educational needs in recent years, however, have given rise to circumstances where different types of school buildings are required.

In 2020, a price and design competition was announced for a new Sami school in Kautokeino. Kautokeino, located in the southern part of Finnmark County, is Norway’s largest Sami municipality and is considered the cultural center of the North Sami area.

Gobi. Boguqi is located on a narrow strip of land between the Tianshan Mountains and the Taklamakan Desert, with an annual precipitation of less than 20mm. From satellite maps, the extent of human activity is marked by a green boundary. Huashan Middle School’s Boguqi campus is situated here.

By converting and adding to a former fire station from 1940, a new elementary school for 1000 pupils has been built in the Stockholm suburb of Midsommarkransen. A schoolyard with a playground inspired by hexagonal forms found in the existing building, and areas of kept natural landscaping has been created on the premises bordering nearby Enbacken Park, allowing for shared use between the two.

The Samuel Paty School in Béziers is centered around a strong paradigm that combines massiveness and porosity. Its urban positioning is based on the highlighting of a clean and longitudinal volume that adapts to the site’s topography. In the heart of the Devèze district, the primary school is developed only on a single ground floor, to offer a human-level building scale. The roof is therefore a real facade in its own right, in the sense that it is as visible as the elevations. The sanded concrete materiality then makes it possible to unify these different planes into a whole, in which the composition blends with its volume.

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features a performing arts centre designed by Dutch Studio Krft. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. The Dutch studio Krft designed the exterior of this performing arts centre at a college in Brighton, UK, using grey brick and flint. The building’s sculptural, four-story design centres around an atrium

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