The school is in need of change.
The success of educational process depends not only on teacher qualifications and abilities of the pupil, but also on factors that we often do not pay attention. For example, how it looks and how the school is organized. Of course, hardly the color of the walls or ceiling heights will become student achiever or a high achiever.
But in a huge faceless building, arranged as a nest, the child will not be able to feel like a whole person. Three main architectural principles that will help the child to love school, says Tim Flynn, head of the British architecture Bureau Tim Flynn Architects.
The proportionality of the school
In today’s economic conditions is much more profitable to build a large-scale educational institutions, able to accommodate over 1500 students. But large spaces can often cause fear, loneliness, and can cause the development in children of the complex of our own insignificance and weakness.
For the harmonious education is important to create built to a human scale schools and kindergartens. Typically, such educational projects should not exceed the height of a three storey building, and to create zones of comfort large space should be divided into functional spaces of a smaller size. For communication and leisure time of modern architects design the special light atriums.
Space that can be changed
Childhood and adolescence is the period when man changed not only externally but also internally when he produces his own opinion and forms a personal attitude to what is happening around the processes. Mood change and the need for movement are all integral parts of the younger generation. That’s why the school should not submit a boring monotonous space, and dynamically evolve along with the child and reflect his inner state.
One of the architectural techniques used to achieve such a result, is the introduction into the interior of the school dynamic elements, for example, bright furniture that can be moved in space and to form the necessary area for socializing or privacy.
The design of the school building with the existing landscape also is able to emphasize the dynamics through the change of seasons and seasons. Transparent ceiling in large public spaces creates “the effect of the street” and correlate themselves with the natural phenomena that occur outside the building: falling leaves, rain, Sunny weather.
The use of glass panels in the facades also gives momentum due to the reflection of environmental changes. Similar function and are living exterior walls and green roof, which change their appearance depending on the time of year. In such circumstances, students always feel part of the world and associated with all that is happening around.
Class is not the only place for a lesson
According to the prevailing view that learning should take place exclusively in the classroom. The only students and teachers can tune in to productive work. However, the change of the interior often means a change of activity and learning, and thus affects the process of acquiring new knowledge and makes it more entertaining and productive.
Training outside of classes provides for the establishment in the various school halls and atriums, specific rooms, more like a meeting room in the business centre. Classes can be held with the participation of several classes in the format of the game or quest.
The classroom remains the key place for learning, but they must become a more dynamic space. This can be achieved through the panoramic Windows, which reflect the change in the weather outside of the building or furniture thanks to the special design, which can be freely moved depending on the format of the lesson.
