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Μια πρωτότυπη και ιδανική αίθουσα διδασκαλίας για το Καλλιτεχνικό Σχολείο Αμπελοκήπων στην Θεσσαλονίκη.TRANSCRIPT
Θέµα: Thank you note.
Από: Architecture for Humanity <[email protected]>
Ηµεροµηνία: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:25:50 -0700
Προς: "konzabetas Zabetas" <[email protected]>
Dear Partners,
We at Architecture for Humanity would like to thank you for being a part ofthe 2009 Open Architecture Challenge. You have heard this from us manytimes in the past, but we could not thank you enough for this successfulinitiative. As we sorted out email lists to send this note we realized how bigthis collaboration has been,
1066 entrants, 110 jury members, 55 challenge ambassadors, 50
Chapters, 26 partners and funders across 70 countries
Again thank you for all your support and we look forward to working with youin the future. Perhaps on our next Open Architecture Challenge... Staytuned.
Cheers
Architecture for Humanity Team
[email protected] • Architecture for Humanity
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Θέµα: Open Architecture Challenge- Financing and funding for participating schools
Από: AFH challenge <[email protected]>
Ηµεροµηνία: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 12:18:24 -0700
Προς: [email protected]
Dear Challenge Entrants,
We would like to thank you for participating in the 2009 Open Architecture Challenge: Classroom
and helping make this a big success. We are now preparing for the next steps to take this challenge
forward, with the intention of getting as many of these classrooms built and upgraded.
Architecture for Humanity’s primary role is providing design services, however we identify the need
for procuring funding for upgrading school facilities. We are currently exploring avenues for funding
and financing classroom upgrade projects. This may or may not result in funding for your school, as
we are only beginning to work on identifying possible funding sources and are unable to promise a
definite outcome at the moment. But more information about your school will surely help us in
pursuing potential financial and funding resources more effectively.
We are aware that many of you have participated with School Building partners and do not have a
school partner. But we thought this update regarding the next steps might interest many of you.
Please have the school administrator/representative answer the attached questionnaire. Kindly have
the completed questionnaire emailed to [email protected] with the subject
line ‘School Survey’ by 21st Oct, 09
Please note the surveys must come from school partners to ensure accuracy. Feel free to contact
with any queries that you may have regarding this survey.
Looking forward to your responses.
Thank you,
Cheers
The Challenge Team
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Θέµα: Reminder - Open Architecture Challenge- Financing and funding for participating schools
Από: AFH challenge <[email protected]>
Ηµεροµηνία: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:51:41 -0700
Προς: [email protected]
Dear Participants,
This is just a friendly reminder for those of you have not been able to turn in the school survey that we
had requested for. We got a number of emails for extension on the deadline for submitting survey and we
are happy to do so. We are aware that in a a lot of instances the designers have found it difficult to get in
touch with the school authorities and the given time may have been insufficient.
Please do fill out the survey (attaching again) so that we can create an effective framework in order to
help upgrade as many schools as possible. If you have any queries and concerns please feel free to write
to us. Also, send you responses with the subject line 'School Survey'
Thank you for taking the time to fill out this survey. Looking forward to your responses.
Also, thank you to all of you who have sent us the survey, kindly ignore this email.
Cheers
The Challenge team
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848 Folsom Street, Suite 201
San Francisco, CA 94107
Telephone: 415 963 3511
Fax: 415 963 3520
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Θέµα: Final Reminder - Open Architecture Challenge- Financing and funding for participating schools
Από: AFH challenge <[email protected]>
Ηµεροµηνία: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 12:32:02 -0800
Προς: [email protected]
Dear Participants,
This is just a friendly reminder for those of you have not yet filled out and returned the requested survey.
At this point we have received over thirty survey responses and each one puts us closer to fine-tuning our
proposal! We are excited to hear from those of you who have not yet returned a survey, and we will be
extending the deadline for one additional week to Friday, November 13th.
Please do fill out the survey (attaching again) so that we can create an effective framework in order to
help upgrade as many schools as possible. If you have any queries and concerns please feel free to write
to us. Also, send you responses with the subject line 'School Survey'
Thank you for taking the time to fill out this survey. Looking forward to your responses.
Also, thank you to all of you who have sent us the survey, kindly ignore this email.
Cheers
The Challenge team
--
Architecture for Humanity
848 Folsom Street, Suite 201
San Francisco, CA 94107
Telephone: 415 963 3511
Fax: 415 963 3520
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PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
KALLITECHNIKO GYMNASIO OF AMPELOKIPI
secondary school of fine arts.
HISTORY:
The school has been founded recently.
Operated for two years and has only two classes.
In regural operation is expected to have 6 classes.
Is a regular secondary school that has extra art lessons,
divided into groups of dance, painting and theater - cinema.
The students learn mathematic, physics, language and simultaneously
they learn dancing, painting, theatre and making films.
School temporarily housed in another school until its own school building will build up..
The plot exists, already has been bought from the municipality of Ampelokipi and this
moment becomes the debates on the architectural planning of new building.
Ladies and gentlemen, we present the concept and part of architectural preliminary
drafts of new building of artistic school.
SCHOOL'S ADMINISTRATION SAID:
Firstly the room must be large in relation with the number of students, that good will be it does not exceed
the twenty.
Desks placed circularly and flexibly, in order that the students work sometimes in teams, sometimes opens a
debate, in desks placed in U-shape, sometimes work certain alone, individually, others in teams,
proportionally with the object of teaching and the requirements of circumstance.
At least in one part of the classroom it is good to have a large carpet and big cushions, in order that certain
students, in relaxed disposal, can sit down and write a literary text, work in small teams on a script, process
a project in geography or in the biology, try a dramatization, while the remaining deal with something else.
Generally good is to create corners in the classroom, with parallel pastime of students on different sides of
the same subject ( collaboration of teachers of various items).
Parallel with the central library of the school, it is useful to have bookshelves in classroom, to host favorites
books of childrens, and the favorites cd's and dvd's, which will be parallel useful as starting points in various
instructive objects and in relative projects.
Furthermore, it is necessary an audio system, video, computers and projection screen, Internet connection,
to open a window to the world any time is necessary at the phases of teaching in the frame of
multiliteracies.
On the other hand there should be a real window to the world, in nature, namely: the class will be supposed
to view with large windows and glass in a green area with trees and flowers.
Stimuli in the multimodal approach of the world should come not only by technical means.
The child will be supposed to hear the real song of bird and inspired a text based on them, to actually see
colors and shapes of flowers and create art.
Even more, good will be the instructive classroom to have its own access to a small garden, to which will be
responsible the children of this class.
Flower-beds with flowers and with vegetables will need their care.
Trees will offer shade and the benches will be mounted in an appropriate manner, in order that lessons could
be outdoor, when the conditions allow it.
Back to indoors: the classroom may, in at least a part of, skylight on the roof, with appropriate treatment, to
allow light to enter the classroom, but to provide heat, other to be aggravating, when the temperature
Overall Rating:
Sustainability:
Innovative Materials:
Cost Effectiveness:
Open Architecture Challenge: Classroom
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Category:
Type: Public
Registration Deadline: May 4 2009
Submission Deadline: June 1 2009
Entry Fee: $25 USD
Award: If your design wins, your
school will receive up to $50,000 in
funding for classroom construction
and upgrading. You will receiv
Contact: Sandhya
Status: Winners Announced
PROJECT DETAILS
NAME: flyover classroom
PROJECT LEAD: Kallitechniko
Gymnasio Ampelokipon (secondary
school for painting-dance-theatre-
cinema)
LOCATION: Thessaloniki, Makethonia,
Greece
START DATE: January 28, 2009
CURRENT PHASE: Design
development
COST: $50000 USD (Estimated)
BUILDING TYPE: Education Facility -
Secondary School
ARCHITECT: Konstantinos Zabetas
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION:
Orient Global
, Architecture for Humanity
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rising.
SCHOOL'S TEACHERS SAID:
if you give students a library, will bring books from home.
If they have suitable space they will bring a photograph, a printed page from something that moved their
the interest, a painting, a comment.
In this room the children do not seat nailed in hard seats. It is a medieval type torture (seven hours a day
for twelve years) for people full of life and vigor.
A corner that will watch the seasons, the sky, the rain, a corner with fireplace.
I imagine a school with a yard in its center, the nature. Rooms and laboratories built around from the yard in
a big circle with no corners.
PEDAGOGIC SOURCES:
A great teacher, Alexandros Delmouzos mentioned in the "secret school": one morning when I went down in
my office, I found certain students to seat around from the fireplace, where fire burned, thus front in the
beautiful fire I opened slowly a conversation, and students began to say their own stories.
ARCHITECTURAL CONTEXT:
In order to make a classroom as ask to us by the school, the teachers and the students, first we separate the
structural and architectural departments that constituting in two categories:
1) funcionality:
The entire classroom is a house with five rooms: the main classroom, the lounge, the garden, the yard and
the facilities.
We place the garden in the ground floor, we place the main classroom of teaching, the lounge and the
facilities in the above floor and the yard is placed in the intermediary.
The plan of this construction can be built with different materials, other for urban areas other for rural areas
and other for a portable version of the building.
The building hangs from a structural system that is independent and for its hanging can be used different
structural systems such as reinforced concrete or metal frame.
As basic unit of dimensioning was used a dimension of 0,6m = 2ft which produces all the other dimensions.
The main classroom is flexible and modifiable.
Its about 14 classrooms in one.
It takes the form of a typical classroom and can also be converted into an amphitheatre.
It can be transferred to the garden for outdoor lessons.
It is mainly litted up with natural lighting by the roof, while it has also a large northern window in the ceiling
for the students to view the sky and the seasons passing by.
Has its own system of natural ventilation and a kneeling system to improve its acoustics performance.
The interior design changes in order that is suitable for each one from the 7 types of courses (performances,
lectures, experiments, projections, debates, computers, workshops) while it has all essential equipment
(video, computers, benches, mirrors) that need these courses.
Shaping the change to be appropriate for each of the 7 types of courses, and has all necessary equipment
(video, computers, benches, mirrors) that need these courses.
The lounge placed around the rclassoom and has a fireplace, sofas and exhibitions surfaces, with its own
separate ventilation system.
The windows are positioned below the floor to allow students tthat sits down on sofas to watch the yard with
the flowers.
Thus they have the sense that the lounge is in the ground and no in the floor.
There are also eastern windows placed tally, in order the students view the rising of the sun from iside the
classroom.
The garden has a greenhouse, a vegetable garden and an open area for student's desks.
The natural soil of the land is maintained by avoiding construction to alter it.
Desks go down from the classroom along with the floor, with a lifting mechanism.
The yard is a big circular ramp with very small slope.
Protects students from obesity because it makes them walk.
When they go up they make good in their health and when they go down they have fun.
It has flower-beds with flowers in all its length and a drainage system for the collection of rainwater.
The highest point of ramp is south-eastern to allow students walking in the sunshine when they come out for
break.
The facilities includes w.c., cupboards students, a pharmacy for emergency care and warehouse for
classroom's equipment.
2) sustainability:
The building is constructed with no need to dig the soil of plot.
Construction does not alter the topography which is the fundamental environment.
the manufacture does not degrade the morphology of soil that
It is therefore a flyover classroom drifting between earth and sky.
It has a greenhouse for the exploitation of solar energy while the placement of classroom above the
greenhouse exploits the movement of hot air to above.
In the roof exists space to install photovoltaics, while on the four columns can be installed wind generators.
The walls must be curved to have a greater surface to the sun.
Each wall is a barrel that can be filled with different eco-materials like earthbags, strawballs, clay, bricks,
e.t.c.
Has systems of natural lighting and ventilation and the roof is ventilated to avoid overheating of the
classroom.
has systems of natural lighting and airing and her roof is [aerizomeni] in order to is avoided the overheat of
room.
The classroom is surrounded by plants for more cool and has a drainage system for the collection of
rainwater.
Has a fireplace for alternative heating, as well as for emergency purposes, like blackouts.
3) list of materials:
The classroom can be made from the following materials
concrete, steel, aluminium, wood, bamboo, soil, earthbags, strawballs, clay, bricks, fabrics, glass, plastic,
tiles, as well as with local materials and technics.
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View full briefWe are inviting you, the designer, to work with students and teachers to design the
classroom of the future for a school of your choosing. Your design should address the
unique challenges your school faces in trying to provide innovative, safe and sustainable
learning spaces.
Find out what teachers and students in your school need to make their learning
environments more effective. Does the classroom inspire learning? Is it overcrowded?
Noisy? Does the classroom have natural daylight? What obstacles prevent schools from
upgrading classrooms or building additional classroom space? Show us how your design
would address the obstacles to providing inspiring learning spaces in your school.
You may partner with any primary or secondary school. (Please note: Classroom designs
for universities and other training academies are not eligible to win.) The school you
choose to partner with can be a local school or one in another region or country. Student
participation is strongly encouraged and will be considered by the jury. The competition
focuses on the design of a single, replicable adaptable classroom. Design teams are not
asked to submit designs for an entire school.
We've created teacher resources, including a design curriculum and web casts to help you
engage and inspire students. Who knows, one of the students you work with could be the
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PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
KALLITECHNIKO GYMNASIO OF AMPELOKIPI
secondary school of fine arts.
HISTORY:
The school has been founded recently.
Operated for two years and has only two classes.
In regural operation is expected to have 6 classes.
Is a regular secondary school that has extra art lessons,
divided into groups of dance, painting and theater - cinema.
The students learn mathematic, physics, language and simultaneously
they learn dancing, painting, theatre and making films.
School temporarily housed in another school until its own school building will build up..
The plot exists, already has been bought from the municipality of Ampelokipi and this
moment becomes the debates on the architectural planning of new building.
Ladies and gentlemen, we present the concept and part of architectural preliminary
drafts of new building of artistic school.
SCHOOL'S ADMINISTRATION SAID:
Firstly the room must be large in relation with the number of students, that good will be it does not exceed
the twenty.
Desks placed circularly and flexibly, in order that the students work sometimes in teams, sometimes opens a
debate, in desks placed in U-shape, sometimes work certain alone, individually, others in teams,
proportionally with the object of teaching and the requirements of circumstance.
At least in one part of the classroom it is good to have a large carpet and big cushions, in order that certain
students, in relaxed disposal, can sit down and write a literary text, work in small teams on a script, process
a project in geography or in the biology, try a dramatization, while the remaining deal with something else.
Generally good is to create corners in the classroom, with parallel pastime of students on different sides of
the same subject ( collaboration of teachers of various items).
Parallel with the central library of the school, it is useful to have bookshelves in classroom, to host favorites
books of childrens, and the favorites cd's and dvd's, which will be parallel useful as starting points in various
instructive objects and in relative projects.
Furthermore, it is necessary an audio system, video, computers and projection screen, Internet connection,
to open a window to the world any time is necessary at the phases of teaching in the frame of
multiliteracies.
On the other hand there should be a real window to the world, in nature, namely: the class will be supposed
to view with large windows and glass in a green area with trees and flowers.
Stimuli in the multimodal approach of the world should come not only by technical means.
The child will be supposed to hear the real song of bird and inspired a text based on them, to actually see
colors and shapes of flowers and create art.
Even more, good will be the instructive classroom to have its own access to a small garden, to which will be
responsible the children of this class.
Flower-beds with flowers and with vegetables will need their care.
Trees will offer shade and the benches will be mounted in an appropriate manner, in order that lessons could
be outdoor, when the conditions allow it.
Back to indoors: the classroom may, in at least a part of, skylight on the roof, with appropriate treatment, to
allow light to enter the classroom, but to provide heat, other to be aggravating, when the temperature
Overall Rating:
Sustainability:
Innovative Materials:
Cost Effectiveness:
Open Architecture Challenge: Classroom
Challenge Overview
About the Challenge
School Building Partners
Traveling Exhibition
Conversations between architects and
students
Stories from participants
Videos of student participation
Guidelines
Press Room
Jury
Timeline
FAQ
Awards
Sponsors & Partners
Teacher & Student Resources
Discussion Forums
School Building Resources
Competition Details
Host: Architecture for Humanity
Category:
Type: Public
Registration Deadline: May 4 2009
Submission Deadline: June 1 2009
Entry Fee: $25 USD
Award: If your design wins, your
school will receive up to $50,000 in
funding for classroom construction
and upgrading. You will receiv
Contact: Sandhya
Status: Winners Announced
PROJECT DETAILS
NAME: flyover classroom
PROJECT LEAD: Kallitechniko
Gymnasio Ampelokipon (secondary
school for painting-dance-theatre-
cinema)
LOCATION: Thessaloniki, Makethonia,
Greece
START DATE: January 28, 2009
CURRENT PHASE: Design
development
COST: $50000 USD (Estimated)
BUILDING TYPE: Education Facility -
Secondary School
ARCHITECT: Konstantinos Zabetas
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION:
Orient Global
, Architecture for Humanity
COPYRIGHT
© All Rights Reserved. This work is the
copyright of the author.
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rising.
SCHOOL'S TEACHERS SAID:
if you give students a library, will bring books from home.
If they have suitable space they will bring a photograph, a printed page from something that moved their
the interest, a painting, a comment.
In this room the children do not seat nailed in hard seats. It is a medieval type torture (seven hours a day
for twelve years) for people full of life and vigor.
A corner that will watch the seasons, the sky, the rain, a corner with fireplace.
I imagine a school with a yard in its center, the nature. Rooms and laboratories built around from the yard in
a big circle with no corners.
PEDAGOGIC SOURCES:
A great teacher, Alexandros Delmouzos mentioned in the "secret school": one morning when I went down in
my office, I found certain students to seat around from the fireplace, where fire burned, thus front in the
beautiful fire I opened slowly a conversation, and students began to say their own stories.
ARCHITECTURAL CONTEXT:
In order to make a classroom as ask to us by the school, the teachers and the students, first we separate the
structural and architectural departments that constituting in two categories:
1) funcionality:
The entire classroom is a house with five rooms: the main classroom, the lounge, the garden, the yard and
the facilities.
We place the garden in the ground floor, we place the main classroom of teaching, the lounge and the
facilities in the above floor and the yard is placed in the intermediary.
The plan of this construction can be built with different materials, other for urban areas other for rural areas
and other for a portable version of the building.
The building hangs from a structural system that is independent and for its hanging can be used different
structural systems such as reinforced concrete or metal frame.
As basic unit of dimensioning was used a dimension of 0,6m = 2ft which produces all the other dimensions.
The main classroom is flexible and modifiable.
Its about 14 classrooms in one.
It takes the form of a typical classroom and can also be converted into an amphitheatre.
It can be transferred to the garden for outdoor lessons.
It is mainly litted up with natural lighting by the roof, while it has also a large northern window in the ceiling
for the students to view the sky and the seasons passing by.
Has its own system of natural ventilation and a kneeling system to improve its acoustics performance.
The interior design changes in order that is suitable for each one from the 7 types of courses (performances,
lectures, experiments, projections, debates, computers, workshops) while it has all essential equipment
(video, computers, benches, mirrors) that need these courses.
Shaping the change to be appropriate for each of the 7 types of courses, and has all necessary equipment
(video, computers, benches, mirrors) that need these courses.
The lounge placed around the rclassoom and has a fireplace, sofas and exhibitions surfaces, with its own
separate ventilation system.
The windows are positioned below the floor to allow students tthat sits down on sofas to watch the yard with
the flowers.
Thus they have the sense that the lounge is in the ground and no in the floor.
There are also eastern windows placed tally, in order the students view the rising of the sun from iside the
classroom.
The garden has a greenhouse, a vegetable garden and an open area for student's desks.
The natural soil of the land is maintained by avoiding construction to alter it.
Desks go down from the classroom along with the floor, with a lifting mechanism.
The yard is a big circular ramp with very small slope.
Protects students from obesity because it makes them walk.
When they go up they make good in their health and when they go down they have fun.
It has flower-beds with flowers in all its length and a drainage system for the collection of rainwater.
The highest point of ramp is south-eastern to allow students walking in the sunshine when they come out for
break.
The facilities includes w.c., cupboards students, a pharmacy for emergency care and warehouse for
classroom's equipment.
2) sustainability:
The building is constructed with no need to dig the soil of plot.
Construction does not alter the topography which is the fundamental environment.
the manufacture does not degrade the morphology of soil that
It is therefore a flyover classroom drifting between earth and sky.
It has a greenhouse for the exploitation of solar energy while the placement of classroom above the
greenhouse exploits the movement of hot air to above.
In the roof exists space to install photovoltaics, while on the four columns can be installed wind generators.
The walls must be curved to have a greater surface to the sun.
Each wall is a barrel that can be filled with different eco-materials like earthbags, strawballs, clay, bricks,
e.t.c.
Has systems of natural lighting and ventilation and the roof is ventilated to avoid overheating of the
classroom.
has systems of natural lighting and airing and her roof is [aerizomeni] in order to is avoided the overheat of
room.
The classroom is surrounded by plants for more cool and has a drainage system for the collection of
rainwater.
Has a fireplace for alternative heating, as well as for emergency purposes, like blackouts.
3) list of materials:
The classroom can be made from the following materials
concrete, steel, aluminium, wood, bamboo, soil, earthbags, strawballs, clay, bricks, fabrics, glass, plastic,
tiles, as well as with local materials and technics.
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View full briefWe are inviting you, the designer, to work with students and teachers to design the
classroom of the future for a school of your choosing. Your design should address the
unique challenges your school faces in trying to provide innovative, safe and sustainable
learning spaces.
Find out what teachers and students in your school need to make their learning
environments more effective. Does the classroom inspire learning? Is it overcrowded?
Noisy? Does the classroom have natural daylight? What obstacles prevent schools from
upgrading classrooms or building additional classroom space? Show us how your design
would address the obstacles to providing inspiring learning spaces in your school.
You may partner with any primary or secondary school. (Please note: Classroom designs
for universities and other training academies are not eligible to win.) The school you
choose to partner with can be a local school or one in another region or country. Student
participation is strongly encouraged and will be considered by the jury. The competition
focuses on the design of a single, replicable adaptable classroom. Design teams are not
asked to submit designs for an entire school.
We've created teacher resources, including a design curriculum and web casts to help you
engage and inspire students. Who knows, one of the students you work with could be the
next Calatrava. And, you could be the one who inspired them to become a design
professional.
Challenge Resources
Your Classroom Brief
Urban Classroom Upgrade Brief
Rural Classroom Addition
Modular Classroom Design Brief
Challenge FAQ
Online Curriculum for Teachers
Online Webcast for Students
Building Standards
Indoor Air Quality
Lighting
Information Technology
Energy Efficiency
Facility and Student Performance
Curriculum
Green Building
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PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
KALLITECHNIKO GYMNASIO OF AMPELOKIPI
secondary school of fine arts.
HISTORY:
The school has been founded recently.
Operated for two years and has only two classes.
In regural operation is expected to have 6 classes.
Is a regular secondary school that has extra art lessons,
divided into groups of dance, painting and theater - cinema.
The students learn mathematic, physics, language and simultaneously
they learn dancing, painting, theatre and making films.
School temporarily housed in another school until its own school building will build up..
The plot exists, already has been bought from the municipality of Ampelokipi and this
moment becomes the debates on the architectural planning of new building.
Ladies and gentlemen, we present the concept and part of architectural preliminary
drafts of new building of artistic school.
SCHOOL'S ADMINISTRATION SAID:
Firstly the room must be large in relation with the number of students, that good will be it does not exceed
the twenty.
Desks placed circularly and flexibly, in order that the students work sometimes in teams, sometimes opens a
debate, in desks placed in U-shape, sometimes work certain alone, individually, others in teams,
proportionally with the object of teaching and the requirements of circumstance.
At least in one part of the classroom it is good to have a large carpet and big cushions, in order that certain
students, in relaxed disposal, can sit down and write a literary text, work in small teams on a script, process
a project in geography or in the biology, try a dramatization, while the remaining deal with something else.
Generally good is to create corners in the classroom, with parallel pastime of students on different sides of
the same subject ( collaboration of teachers of various items).
Parallel with the central library of the school, it is useful to have bookshelves in classroom, to host favorites
books of childrens, and the favorites cd's and dvd's, which will be parallel useful as starting points in various
instructive objects and in relative projects.
Furthermore, it is necessary an audio system, video, computers and projection screen, Internet connection,
to open a window to the world any time is necessary at the phases of teaching in the frame of
multiliteracies.
On the other hand there should be a real window to the world, in nature, namely: the class will be supposed
to view with large windows and glass in a green area with trees and flowers.
Stimuli in the multimodal approach of the world should come not only by technical means.
The child will be supposed to hear the real song of bird and inspired a text based on them, to actually see
colors and shapes of flowers and create art.
Even more, good will be the instructive classroom to have its own access to a small garden, to which will be
responsible the children of this class.
Flower-beds with flowers and with vegetables will need their care.
Trees will offer shade and the benches will be mounted in an appropriate manner, in order that lessons could
be outdoor, when the conditions allow it.
Back to indoors: the classroom may, in at least a part of, skylight on the roof, with appropriate treatment, to
allow light to enter the classroom, but to provide heat, other to be aggravating, when the temperature
Overall Rating:
Sustainability:
Innovative Materials:
Cost Effectiveness:
Open Architecture Challenge: Classroom
Challenge Overview
About the Challenge
School Building Partners
Traveling Exhibition
Conversations between architects and
students
Stories from participants
Videos of student participation
Guidelines
Press Room
Jury
Timeline
FAQ
Awards
Sponsors & Partners
Teacher & Student Resources
Discussion Forums
School Building Resources
Competition Details
Host: Architecture for Humanity
Category:
Type: Public
Registration Deadline: May 4 2009
Submission Deadline: June 1 2009
Entry Fee: $25 USD
Award: If your design wins, your
school will receive up to $50,000 in
funding for classroom construction
and upgrading. You will receiv
Contact: Sandhya
Status: Winners Announced
PROJECT DETAILS
NAME: flyover classroom
PROJECT LEAD: Kallitechniko
Gymnasio Ampelokipon (secondary
school for painting-dance-theatre-
cinema)
LOCATION: Thessaloniki, Makethonia,
Greece
START DATE: January 28, 2009
CURRENT PHASE: Design
development
COST: $50000 USD (Estimated)
BUILDING TYPE: Education Facility -
Secondary School
ARCHITECT: Konstantinos Zabetas
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION:
Orient Global
, Architecture for Humanity
COPYRIGHT
© All Rights Reserved. This work is the
copyright of the author.
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rising.
SCHOOL'S TEACHERS SAID:
if you give students a library, will bring books from home.
If they have suitable space they will bring a photograph, a printed page from something that moved their
the interest, a painting, a comment.
In this room the children do not seat nailed in hard seats. It is a medieval type torture (seven hours a day
for twelve years) for people full of life and vigor.
A corner that will watch the seasons, the sky, the rain, a corner with fireplace.
I imagine a school with a yard in its center, the nature. Rooms and laboratories built around from the yard in
a big circle with no corners.
PEDAGOGIC SOURCES:
A great teacher, Alexandros Delmouzos mentioned in the "secret school": one morning when I went down in
my office, I found certain students to seat around from the fireplace, where fire burned, thus front in the
beautiful fire I opened slowly a conversation, and students began to say their own stories.
ARCHITECTURAL CONTEXT:
In order to make a classroom as ask to us by the school, the teachers and the students, first we separate the
structural and architectural departments that constituting in two categories:
1) funcionality:
The entire classroom is a house with five rooms: the main classroom, the lounge, the garden, the yard and
the facilities.
We place the garden in the ground floor, we place the main classroom of teaching, the lounge and the
facilities in the above floor and the yard is placed in the intermediary.
The plan of this construction can be built with different materials, other for urban areas other for rural areas
and other for a portable version of the building.
The building hangs from a structural system that is independent and for its hanging can be used different
structural systems such as reinforced concrete or metal frame.
As basic unit of dimensioning was used a dimension of 0,6m = 2ft which produces all the other dimensions.
The main classroom is flexible and modifiable.
Its about 14 classrooms in one.
It takes the form of a typical classroom and can also be converted into an amphitheatre.
It can be transferred to the garden for outdoor lessons.
It is mainly litted up with natural lighting by the roof, while it has also a large northern window in the ceiling
for the students to view the sky and the seasons passing by.
Has its own system of natural ventilation and a kneeling system to improve its acoustics performance.
The interior design changes in order that is suitable for each one from the 7 types of courses (performances,
lectures, experiments, projections, debates, computers, workshops) while it has all essential equipment
(video, computers, benches, mirrors) that need these courses.
Shaping the change to be appropriate for each of the 7 types of courses, and has all necessary equipment
(video, computers, benches, mirrors) that need these courses.
The lounge placed around the rclassoom and has a fireplace, sofas and exhibitions surfaces, with its own
separate ventilation system.
The windows are positioned below the floor to allow students tthat sits down on sofas to watch the yard with
the flowers.
Thus they have the sense that the lounge is in the ground and no in the floor.
There are also eastern windows placed tally, in order the students view the rising of the sun from iside the
classroom.
The garden has a greenhouse, a vegetable garden and an open area for student's desks.
The natural soil of the land is maintained by avoiding construction to alter it.
Desks go down from the classroom along with the floor, with a lifting mechanism.
The yard is a big circular ramp with very small slope.
Protects students from obesity because it makes them walk.
When they go up they make good in their health and when they go down they have fun.
It has flower-beds with flowers in all its length and a drainage system for the collection of rainwater.
The highest point of ramp is south-eastern to allow students walking in the sunshine when they come out for
break.
The facilities includes w.c., cupboards students, a pharmacy for emergency care and warehouse for
classroom's equipment.
2) sustainability:
The building is constructed with no need to dig the soil of plot.
Construction does not alter the topography which is the fundamental environment.
the manufacture does not degrade the morphology of soil that
It is therefore a flyover classroom drifting between earth and sky.
It has a greenhouse for the exploitation of solar energy while the placement of classroom above the
greenhouse exploits the movement of hot air to above.
In the roof exists space to install photovoltaics, while on the four columns can be installed wind generators.
The walls must be curved to have a greater surface to the sun.
Each wall is a barrel that can be filled with different eco-materials like earthbags, strawballs, clay, bricks,
e.t.c.
Has systems of natural lighting and ventilation and the roof is ventilated to avoid overheating of the
classroom.
has systems of natural lighting and airing and her roof is [aerizomeni] in order to is avoided the overheat of
room.
The classroom is surrounded by plants for more cool and has a drainage system for the collection of
rainwater.
Has a fireplace for alternative heating, as well as for emergency purposes, like blackouts.
3) list of materials:
The classroom can be made from the following materials
concrete, steel, aluminium, wood, bamboo, soil, earthbags, strawballs, clay, bricks, fabrics, glass, plastic,
tiles, as well as with local materials and technics.
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Discussion Forums
Join the conversation!
General Questions
Do you have general questions about
participating in the challenge? Post them
here, or see if they have already been asked
and answered.
view forum
Partner Requests
Are you a school that needs an architect to
team up with, or a architect that needs a
school? Post your information here, and find a
partner!
view forum
MBI Discussion Forum
Looking for answers to specific modular
classrooms questions? Ask you questions on
the Modular Building Institute forum.
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View full briefWe are inviting you, the designer, to work with students and teachers to design the
classroom of the future for a school of your choosing. Your design should address the
unique challenges your school faces in trying to provide innovative, safe and sustainable
learning spaces.
Find out what teachers and students in your school need to make their learning
environments more effective. Does the classroom inspire learning? Is it overcrowded?
Noisy? Does the classroom have natural daylight? What obstacles prevent schools from
upgrading classrooms or building additional classroom space? Show us how your design
would address the obstacles to providing inspiring learning spaces in your school.
You may partner with any primary or secondary school. (Please note: Classroom designs
for universities and other training academies are not eligible to win.) The school you
choose to partner with can be a local school or one in another region or country. Student
participation is strongly encouraged and will be considered by the jury. The competition
focuses on the design of a single, replicable adaptable classroom. Design teams are not
asked to submit designs for an entire school.
We've created teacher resources, including a design curriculum and web casts to help you
engage and inspire students. Who knows, one of the students you work with could be the
next Calatrava. And, you could be the one who inspired them to become a design
professional.
Challenge Resources
Your Classroom Brief
Urban Classroom Upgrade Brief
Rural Classroom Addition
Modular Classroom Design Brief
Challenge FAQ
Online Curriculum for Teachers
Online Webcast for Students
Building Standards
Indoor Air Quality
Lighting
Information Technology
Energy Efficiency
Facility and Student Performance
Curriculum
Green Building
Architecture as Learning
Tool
Adaptive Reuse
Design for Indigenous
Communities
International Design
US School Building
Guidelines
Videos
Misc. information and
articles
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floorplans
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
KALLITECHNIKO GYMNASIO OF AMPELOKIPI
secondary school of fine arts.
HISTORY:
The school has been founded recently.
Operated for two years and has only two classes.
In regural operation is expected to have 6 classes.
Is a regular secondary school that has extra art lessons,
divided into groups of dance, painting and theater - cinema.
The students learn mathematic, physics, language and simultaneously
they learn dancing, painting, theatre and making films.
School temporarily housed in another school until its own school building will build up..
The plot exists, already has been bought from the municipality of Ampelokipi and this
moment becomes the debates on the architectural planning of new building.
Ladies and gentlemen, we present the concept and part of architectural preliminary
drafts of new building of artistic school.
SCHOOL'S ADMINISTRATION SAID:
Firstly the room must be large in relation with the number of students, that good will be it does not exceed
the twenty.
Desks placed circularly and flexibly, in order that the students work sometimes in teams, sometimes opens a
debate, in desks placed in U-shape, sometimes work certain alone, individually, others in teams,
proportionally with the object of teaching and the requirements of circumstance.
At least in one part of the classroom it is good to have a large carpet and big cushions, in order that certain
students, in relaxed disposal, can sit down and write a literary text, work in small teams on a script, process
a project in geography or in the biology, try a dramatization, while the remaining deal with something else.
Generally good is to create corners in the classroom, with parallel pastime of students on different sides of
the same subject ( collaboration of teachers of various items).
Parallel with the central library of the school, it is useful to have bookshelves in classroom, to host favorites
books of childrens, and the favorites cd's and dvd's, which will be parallel useful as starting points in various
instructive objects and in relative projects.
Furthermore, it is necessary an audio system, video, computers and projection screen, Internet connection,
to open a window to the world any time is necessary at the phases of teaching in the frame of
multiliteracies.
On the other hand there should be a real window to the world, in nature, namely: the class will be supposed
to view with large windows and glass in a green area with trees and flowers.
Stimuli in the multimodal approach of the world should come not only by technical means.
The child will be supposed to hear the real song of bird and inspired a text based on them, to actually see
colors and shapes of flowers and create art.
Even more, good will be the instructive classroom to have its own access to a small garden, to which will be
responsible the children of this class.
Flower-beds with flowers and with vegetables will need their care.
Trees will offer shade and the benches will be mounted in an appropriate manner, in order that lessons could
be outdoor, when the conditions allow it.
Back to indoors: the classroom may, in at least a part of, skylight on the roof, with appropriate treatment, to
allow light to enter the classroom, but to provide heat, other to be aggravating, when the temperature
Overall Rating:
Sustainability:
Innovative Materials:
Cost Effectiveness:
Open Architecture Challenge: Classroom
Challenge Overview
About the Challenge
School Building Partners
Traveling Exhibition
Conversations between architects and
students
Stories from participants
Videos of student participation
Guidelines
Press Room
Jury
Timeline
FAQ
Awards
Sponsors & Partners
Teacher & Student Resources
Discussion Forums
School Building Resources
Competition Details
Host: Architecture for Humanity
Category:
Type: Public
Registration Deadline: May 4 2009
Submission Deadline: June 1 2009
Entry Fee: $25 USD
Award: If your design wins, your
school will receive up to $50,000 in
funding for classroom construction
and upgrading. You will receiv
Contact: Sandhya
Status: Winners Announced
PROJECT DETAILS
NAME: flyover classroom
PROJECT LEAD: Kallitechniko
Gymnasio Ampelokipon (secondary
school for painting-dance-theatre-
cinema)
LOCATION: Thessaloniki, Makethonia,
Greece
START DATE: January 28, 2009
CURRENT PHASE: Design
development
COST: $50000 USD (Estimated)
BUILDING TYPE: Education Facility -
Secondary School
ARCHITECT: Konstantinos Zabetas
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION:
Orient Global
, Architecture for Humanity
COPYRIGHT
© All Rights Reserved. This work is the
copyright of the author.
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rising.
SCHOOL'S TEACHERS SAID:
if you give students a library, will bring books from home.
If they have suitable space they will bring a photograph, a printed page from something that moved their
the interest, a painting, a comment.
In this room the children do not seat nailed in hard seats. It is a medieval type torture (seven hours a day
for twelve years) for people full of life and vigor.
A corner that will watch the seasons, the sky, the rain, a corner with fireplace.
I imagine a school with a yard in its center, the nature. Rooms and laboratories built around from the yard in
a big circle with no corners.
PEDAGOGIC SOURCES:
A great teacher, Alexandros Delmouzos mentioned in the "secret school": one morning when I went down in
my office, I found certain students to seat around from the fireplace, where fire burned, thus front in the
beautiful fire I opened slowly a conversation, and students began to say their own stories.
ARCHITECTURAL CONTEXT:
In order to make a classroom as ask to us by the school, the teachers and the students, first we separate the
structural and architectural departments that constituting in two categories:
1) funcionality:
The entire classroom is a house with five rooms: the main classroom, the lounge, the garden, the yard and
the facilities.
We place the garden in the ground floor, we place the main classroom of teaching, the lounge and the
facilities in the above floor and the yard is placed in the intermediary.
The plan of this construction can be built with different materials, other for urban areas other for rural areas
and other for a portable version of the building.
The building hangs from a structural system that is independent and for its hanging can be used different
structural systems such as reinforced concrete or metal frame.
As basic unit of dimensioning was used a dimension of 0,6m = 2ft which produces all the other dimensions.
The main classroom is flexible and modifiable.
Its about 14 classrooms in one.
It takes the form of a typical classroom and can also be converted into an amphitheatre.
It can be transferred to the garden for outdoor lessons.
It is mainly litted up with natural lighting by the roof, while it has also a large northern window in the ceiling
for the students to view the sky and the seasons passing by.
Has its own system of natural ventilation and a kneeling system to improve its acoustics performance.
The interior design changes in order that is suitable for each one from the 7 types of courses (performances,
lectures, experiments, projections, debates, computers, workshops) while it has all essential equipment
(video, computers, benches, mirrors) that need these courses.
Shaping the change to be appropriate for each of the 7 types of courses, and has all necessary equipment
(video, computers, benches, mirrors) that need these courses.
The lounge placed around the rclassoom and has a fireplace, sofas and exhibitions surfaces, with its own
separate ventilation system.
The windows are positioned below the floor to allow students tthat sits down on sofas to watch the yard with
the flowers.
Thus they have the sense that the lounge is in the ground and no in the floor.
There are also eastern windows placed tally, in order the students view the rising of the sun from iside the
classroom.
The garden has a greenhouse, a vegetable garden and an open area for student's desks.
The natural soil of the land is maintained by avoiding construction to alter it.
Desks go down from the classroom along with the floor, with a lifting mechanism.
The yard is a big circular ramp with very small slope.
Protects students from obesity because it makes them walk.
When they go up they make good in their health and when they go down they have fun.
It has flower-beds with flowers in all its length and a drainage system for the collection of rainwater.
The highest point of ramp is south-eastern to allow students walking in the sunshine when they come out for
break.
The facilities includes w.c., cupboards students, a pharmacy for emergency care and warehouse for
classroom's equipment.
2) sustainability:
The building is constructed with no need to dig the soil of plot.
Construction does not alter the topography which is the fundamental environment.
the manufacture does not degrade the morphology of soil that
It is therefore a flyover classroom drifting between earth and sky.
It has a greenhouse for the exploitation of solar energy while the placement of classroom above the
greenhouse exploits the movement of hot air to above.
In the roof exists space to install photovoltaics, while on the four columns can be installed wind generators.
The walls must be curved to have a greater surface to the sun.
Each wall is a barrel that can be filled with different eco-materials like earthbags, strawballs, clay, bricks,
e.t.c.
Has systems of natural lighting and ventilation and the roof is ventilated to avoid overheating of the
classroom.
has systems of natural lighting and airing and her roof is [aerizomeni] in order to is avoided the overheat of
room.
The classroom is surrounded by plants for more cool and has a drainage system for the collection of
rainwater.
Has a fireplace for alternative heating, as well as for emergency purposes, like blackouts.
3) list of materials:
The classroom can be made from the following materials
concrete, steel, aluminium, wood, bamboo, soil, earthbags, strawballs, clay, bricks, fabrics, glass, plastic,
tiles, as well as with local materials and technics.
Login or register to post comments
Project Updates
Please note: This information is subject to our Terms of Use, including a specific disclaimer. It may also be subject to a Creative
Commons license that you should read and understand before making use of information you find here or posting to this area.
Selected Competition Site
Partner with a school of your choice
Discussion Forums
Join the conversation!
General Questions
Do you have general questions about
participating in the challenge? Post them
here, or see if they have already been asked
and answered.
view forum
Partner Requests
Are you a school that needs an architect to
team up with, or a architect that needs a
school? Post your information here, and find a
partner!
view forum
MBI Discussion Forum
Looking for answers to specific modular
classrooms questions? Ask you questions on
the Modular Building Institute forum.
view forum
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share 2D and 3D designs in their browser
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classroom of the future for a school of your choosing. Your design should address the
unique challenges your school faces in trying to provide innovative, safe and sustainable
learning spaces.
Find out what teachers and students in your school need to make their learning
environments more effective. Does the classroom inspire learning? Is it overcrowded?
Noisy? Does the classroom have natural daylight? What obstacles prevent schools from
upgrading classrooms or building additional classroom space? Show us how your design
would address the obstacles to providing inspiring learning spaces in your school.
You may partner with any primary or secondary school. (Please note: Classroom designs
for universities and other training academies are not eligible to win.) The school you
choose to partner with can be a local school or one in another region or country. Student
participation is strongly encouraged and will be considered by the jury. The competition
focuses on the design of a single, replicable adaptable classroom. Design teams are not
asked to submit designs for an entire school.
We've created teacher resources, including a design curriculum and web casts to help you
engage and inspire students. Who knows, one of the students you work with could be the
next Calatrava. And, you could be the one who inspired them to become a design
professional.
Challenge Resources
Your Classroom Brief
Urban Classroom Upgrade Brief
Rural Classroom Addition
Modular Classroom Design Brief
Challenge FAQ
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Building Standards
Indoor Air Quality
Lighting
Information Technology
Energy Efficiency
Facility and Student Performance
Curriculum
Green Building
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PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
KALLITECHNIKO GYMNASIO OF AMPELOKIPI
secondary school of fine arts.
HISTORY:
The school has been founded recently.
Operated for two years and has only two classes.
In regural operation is expected to have 6 classes.
Is a regular secondary school that has extra art lessons,
divided into groups of dance, painting and theater - cinema.
The students learn mathematic, physics, language and simultaneously
they learn dancing, painting, theatre and making films.
School temporarily housed in another school until its own school building will build up..
The plot exists, already has been bought from the municipality of Ampelokipi and this
moment becomes the debates on the architectural planning of new building.
Ladies and gentlemen, we present the concept and part of architectural preliminary
drafts of new building of artistic school.
SCHOOL'S ADMINISTRATION SAID:
Firstly the room must be large in relation with the number of students, that good will be it does not exceed
the twenty.
Desks placed circularly and flexibly, in order that the students work sometimes in teams, sometimes opens a
debate, in desks placed in U-shape, sometimes work certain alone, individually, others in teams,
proportionally with the object of teaching and the requirements of circumstance.
At least in one part of the classroom it is good to have a large carpet and big cushions, in order that certain
students, in relaxed disposal, can sit down and write a literary text, work in small teams on a script, process
a project in geography or in the biology, try a dramatization, while the remaining deal with something else.
Generally good is to create corners in the classroom, with parallel pastime of students on different sides of
the same subject ( collaboration of teachers of various items).
Parallel with the central library of the school, it is useful to have bookshelves in classroom, to host favorites
books of childrens, and the favorites cd's and dvd's, which will be parallel useful as starting points in various
instructive objects and in relative projects.
Furthermore, it is necessary an audio system, video, computers and projection screen, Internet connection,
to open a window to the world any time is necessary at the phases of teaching in the frame of
multiliteracies.
On the other hand there should be a real window to the world, in nature, namely: the class will be supposed
to view with large windows and glass in a green area with trees and flowers.
Stimuli in the multimodal approach of the world should come not only by technical means.
The child will be supposed to hear the real song of bird and inspired a text based on them, to actually see
colors and shapes of flowers and create art.
Even more, good will be the instructive classroom to have its own access to a small garden, to which will be
responsible the children of this class.
Flower-beds with flowers and with vegetables will need their care.
Trees will offer shade and the benches will be mounted in an appropriate manner, in order that lessons could
be outdoor, when the conditions allow it.
Back to indoors: the classroom may, in at least a part of, skylight on the roof, with appropriate treatment, to
allow light to enter the classroom, but to provide heat, other to be aggravating, when the temperature
Overall Rating:
Sustainability:
Innovative Materials:
Cost Effectiveness:
Open Architecture Challenge: Classroom
Challenge Overview
About the Challenge
School Building Partners
Traveling Exhibition
Conversations between architects and
students
Stories from participants
Videos of student participation
Guidelines
Press Room
Jury
Timeline
FAQ
Awards
Sponsors & Partners
Teacher & Student Resources
Discussion Forums
School Building Resources
Competition Details
Host: Architecture for Humanity
Category:
Type: Public
Registration Deadline: May 4 2009
Submission Deadline: June 1 2009
Entry Fee: $25 USD
Award: If your design wins, your
school will receive up to $50,000 in
funding for classroom construction
and upgrading. You will receiv
Contact: Sandhya
Status: Winners Announced
PROJECT DETAILS
NAME: flyover classroom
PROJECT LEAD: Kallitechniko
Gymnasio Ampelokipon (secondary
school for painting-dance-theatre-
cinema)
LOCATION: Thessaloniki, Makethonia,
Greece
START DATE: January 28, 2009
CURRENT PHASE: Design
development
COST: $50000 USD (Estimated)
BUILDING TYPE: Education Facility -
Secondary School
ARCHITECT: Konstantinos Zabetas
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION:
Orient Global
, Architecture for Humanity
COPYRIGHT
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rising.
SCHOOL'S TEACHERS SAID:
if you give students a library, will bring books from home.
If they have suitable space they will bring a photograph, a printed page from something that moved their
the interest, a painting, a comment.
In this room the children do not seat nailed in hard seats. It is a medieval type torture (seven hours a day
for twelve years) for people full of life and vigor.
A corner that will watch the seasons, the sky, the rain, a corner with fireplace.
I imagine a school with a yard in its center, the nature. Rooms and laboratories built around from the yard in
a big circle with no corners.
PEDAGOGIC SOURCES:
A great teacher, Alexandros Delmouzos mentioned in the "secret school": one morning when I went down in
my office, I found certain students to seat around from the fireplace, where fire burned, thus front in the
beautiful fire I opened slowly a conversation, and students began to say their own stories.
ARCHITECTURAL CONTEXT:
In order to make a classroom as ask to us by the school, the teachers and the students, first we separate the
structural and architectural departments that constituting in two categories:
1) funcionality:
The entire classroom is a house with five rooms: the main classroom, the lounge, the garden, the yard and
the facilities.
We place the garden in the ground floor, we place the main classroom of teaching, the lounge and the
facilities in the above floor and the yard is placed in the intermediary.
The plan of this construction can be built with different materials, other for urban areas other for rural areas
and other for a portable version of the building.
The building hangs from a structural system that is independent and for its hanging can be used different
structural systems such as reinforced concrete or metal frame.
As basic unit of dimensioning was used a dimension of 0,6m = 2ft which produces all the other dimensions.
The main classroom is flexible and modifiable.
Its about 14 classrooms in one.
It takes the form of a typical classroom and can also be converted into an amphitheatre.
It can be transferred to the garden for outdoor lessons.
It is mainly litted up with natural lighting by the roof, while it has also a large northern window in the ceiling
for the students to view the sky and the seasons passing by.
Has its own system of natural ventilation and a kneeling system to improve its acoustics performance.
The interior design changes in order that is suitable for each one from the 7 types of courses (performances,
lectures, experiments, projections, debates, computers, workshops) while it has all essential equipment
(video, computers, benches, mirrors) that need these courses.
Shaping the change to be appropriate for each of the 7 types of courses, and has all necessary equipment
(video, computers, benches, mirrors) that need these courses.
The lounge placed around the rclassoom and has a fireplace, sofas and exhibitions surfaces, with its own
separate ventilation system.
The windows are positioned below the floor to allow students tthat sits down on sofas to watch the yard with
the flowers.
Thus they have the sense that the lounge is in the ground and no in the floor.
There are also eastern windows placed tally, in order the students view the rising of the sun from iside the
classroom.
The garden has a greenhouse, a vegetable garden and an open area for student's desks.
The natural soil of the land is maintained by avoiding construction to alter it.
Desks go down from the classroom along with the floor, with a lifting mechanism.
The yard is a big circular ramp with very small slope.
Protects students from obesity because it makes them walk.
When they go up they make good in their health and when they go down they have fun.
It has flower-beds with flowers in all its length and a drainage system for the collection of rainwater.
The highest point of ramp is south-eastern to allow students walking in the sunshine when they come out for
break.
The facilities includes w.c., cupboards students, a pharmacy for emergency care and warehouse for
classroom's equipment.
2) sustainability:
The building is constructed with no need to dig the soil of plot.
Construction does not alter the topography which is the fundamental environment.
the manufacture does not degrade the morphology of soil that
It is therefore a flyover classroom drifting between earth and sky.
It has a greenhouse for the exploitation of solar energy while the placement of classroom above the
greenhouse exploits the movement of hot air to above.
In the roof exists space to install photovoltaics, while on the four columns can be installed wind generators.
The walls must be curved to have a greater surface to the sun.
Each wall is a barrel that can be filled with different eco-materials like earthbags, strawballs, clay, bricks,
e.t.c.
Has systems of natural lighting and ventilation and the roof is ventilated to avoid overheating of the
classroom.
has systems of natural lighting and airing and her roof is [aerizomeni] in order to is avoided the overheat of
room.
The classroom is surrounded by plants for more cool and has a drainage system for the collection of
rainwater.
Has a fireplace for alternative heating, as well as for emergency purposes, like blackouts.
3) list of materials:
The classroom can be made from the following materials
concrete, steel, aluminium, wood, bamboo, soil, earthbags, strawballs, clay, bricks, fabrics, glass, plastic,
tiles, as well as with local materials and technics.
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Discussion Forums
Join the conversation!
General Questions
Do you have general questions about
participating in the challenge? Post them
here, or see if they have already been asked
and answered.
view forum
Partner Requests
Are you a school that needs an architect to
team up with, or a architect that needs a
school? Post your information here, and find a
partner!
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MBI Discussion Forum
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View full briefWe are inviting you, the designer, to work with students and teachers to design the
classroom of the future for a school of your choosing. Your design should address the
unique challenges your school faces in trying to provide innovative, safe and sustainable
learning spaces.
Find out what teachers and students in your school need to make their learning
environments more effective. Does the classroom inspire learning? Is it overcrowded?
Noisy? Does the classroom have natural daylight? What obstacles prevent schools from
upgrading classrooms or building additional classroom space? Show us how your design
would address the obstacles to providing inspiring learning spaces in your school.
You may partner with any primary or secondary school. (Please note: Classroom designs
for universities and other training academies are not eligible to win.) The school you
choose to partner with can be a local school or one in another region or country. Student
participation is strongly encouraged and will be considered by the jury. The competition
focuses on the design of a single, replicable adaptable classroom. Design teams are not
asked to submit designs for an entire school.
We've created teacher resources, including a design curriculum and web casts to help you
engage and inspire students. Who knows, one of the students you work with could be the
next Calatrava. And, you could be the one who inspired them to become a design
professional.
Challenge Resources
Your Classroom Brief
Urban Classroom Upgrade Brief
Rural Classroom Addition
Modular Classroom Design Brief
Challenge FAQ
Online Curriculum for Teachers
Online Webcast for Students
Building Standards
Indoor Air Quality
Lighting
Information Technology
Energy Efficiency
Facility and Student Performance
Curriculum
Green Building
Architecture as Learning
Tool
Adaptive Reuse
Design for Indigenous
Communities
International Design
US School Building
Guidelines
Videos
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articles
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PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
KALLITECHNIKO GYMNASIO OF AMPELOKIPI
secondary school of fine arts.
HISTORY:
The school has been founded recently.
Operated for two years and has only two classes.
In regural operation is expected to have 6 classes.
Is a regular secondary school that has extra art lessons,
divided into groups of dance, painting and theater - cinema.
The students learn mathematic, physics, language and simultaneously
they learn dancing, painting, theatre and making films.
School temporarily housed in another school until its own school building will build up..
The plot exists, already has been bought from the municipality of Ampelokipi and this
moment becomes the debates on the architectural planning of new building.
Ladies and gentlemen, we present the concept and part of architectural preliminary
drafts of new building of artistic school.
SCHOOL'S ADMINISTRATION SAID:
Firstly the room must be large in relation with the number of students, that good will be it does not exceed
the twenty.
Desks placed circularly and flexibly, in order that the students work sometimes in teams, sometimes opens a
debate, in desks placed in U-shape, sometimes work certain alone, individually, others in teams,
proportionally with the object of teaching and the requirements of circumstance.
At least in one part of the classroom it is good to have a large carpet and big cushions, in order that certain
students, in relaxed disposal, can sit down and write a literary text, work in small teams on a script, process
a project in geography or in the biology, try a dramatization, while the remaining deal with something else.
Generally good is to create corners in the classroom, with parallel pastime of students on different sides of
the same subject ( collaboration of teachers of various items).
Parallel with the central library of the school, it is useful to have bookshelves in classroom, to host favorites
books of childrens, and the favorites cd's and dvd's, which will be parallel useful as starting points in various
instructive objects and in relative projects.
Furthermore, it is necessary an audio system, video, computers and projection screen, Internet connection,
to open a window to the world any time is necessary at the phases of teaching in the frame of
multiliteracies.
On the other hand there should be a real window to the world, in nature, namely: the class will be supposed
to view with large windows and glass in a green area with trees and flowers.
Stimuli in the multimodal approach of the world should come not only by technical means.
The child will be supposed to hear the real song of bird and inspired a text based on them, to actually see
colors and shapes of flowers and create art.
Even more, good will be the instructive classroom to have its own access to a small garden, to which will be
responsible the children of this class.
Flower-beds with flowers and with vegetables will need their care.
Trees will offer shade and the benches will be mounted in an appropriate manner, in order that lessons could
be outdoor, when the conditions allow it.
Back to indoors: the classroom may, in at least a part of, skylight on the roof, with appropriate treatment, to
allow light to enter the classroom, but to provide heat, other to be aggravating, when the temperature
Overall Rating:
Sustainability:
Innovative Materials:
Cost Effectiveness:
Open Architecture Challenge: Classroom
Challenge Overview
About the Challenge
School Building Partners
Traveling Exhibition
Conversations between architects and
students
Stories from participants
Videos of student participation
Guidelines
Press Room
Jury
Timeline
FAQ
Awards
Sponsors & Partners
Teacher & Student Resources
Discussion Forums
School Building Resources
Competition Details
Host: Architecture for Humanity
Category:
Type: Public
Registration Deadline: May 4 2009
Submission Deadline: June 1 2009
Entry Fee: $25 USD
Award: If your design wins, your
school will receive up to $50,000 in
funding for classroom construction
and upgrading. You will receiv
Contact: Sandhya
Status: Winners Announced
PROJECT DETAILS
NAME: flyover classroom
PROJECT LEAD: Kallitechniko
Gymnasio Ampelokipon (secondary
school for painting-dance-theatre-
cinema)
LOCATION: Thessaloniki, Makethonia,
Greece
START DATE: January 28, 2009
CURRENT PHASE: Design
development
COST: $50000 USD (Estimated)
BUILDING TYPE: Education Facility -
Secondary School
ARCHITECT: Konstantinos Zabetas
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION:
Orient Global
, Architecture for Humanity
COPYRIGHT
© All Rights Reserved. This work is the
copyright of the author.
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rising.
SCHOOL'S TEACHERS SAID:
if you give students a library, will bring books from home.
If they have suitable space they will bring a photograph, a printed page from something that moved their
the interest, a painting, a comment.
In this room the children do not seat nailed in hard seats. It is a medieval type torture (seven hours a day
for twelve years) for people full of life and vigor.
A corner that will watch the seasons, the sky, the rain, a corner with fireplace.
I imagine a school with a yard in its center, the nature. Rooms and laboratories built around from the yard in
a big circle with no corners.
PEDAGOGIC SOURCES:
A great teacher, Alexandros Delmouzos mentioned in the "secret school": one morning when I went down in
my office, I found certain students to seat around from the fireplace, where fire burned, thus front in the
beautiful fire I opened slowly a conversation, and students began to say their own stories.
ARCHITECTURAL CONTEXT:
In order to make a classroom as ask to us by the school, the teachers and the students, first we separate the
structural and architectural departments that constituting in two categories:
1) funcionality:
The entire classroom is a house with five rooms: the main classroom, the lounge, the garden, the yard and
the facilities.
We place the garden in the ground floor, we place the main classroom of teaching, the lounge and the
facilities in the above floor and the yard is placed in the intermediary.
The plan of this construction can be built with different materials, other for urban areas other for rural areas
and other for a portable version of the building.
The building hangs from a structural system that is independent and for its hanging can be used different
structural systems such as reinforced concrete or metal frame.
As basic unit of dimensioning was used a dimension of 0,6m = 2ft which produces all the other dimensions.
The main classroom is flexible and modifiable.
Its about 14 classrooms in one.
It takes the form of a typical classroom and can also be converted into an amphitheatre.
It can be transferred to the garden for outdoor lessons.
It is mainly litted up with natural lighting by the roof, while it has also a large northern window in the ceiling
for the students to view the sky and the seasons passing by.
Has its own system of natural ventilation and a kneeling system to improve its acoustics performance.
The interior design changes in order that is suitable for each one from the 7 types of courses (performances,
lectures, experiments, projections, debates, computers, workshops) while it has all essential equipment
(video, computers, benches, mirrors) that need these courses.
Shaping the change to be appropriate for each of the 7 types of courses, and has all necessary equipment
(video, computers, benches, mirrors) that need these courses.
The lounge placed around the rclassoom and has a fireplace, sofas and exhibitions surfaces, with its own
separate ventilation system.
The windows are positioned below the floor to allow students tthat sits down on sofas to watch the yard with
the flowers.
Thus they have the sense that the lounge is in the ground and no in the floor.
There are also eastern windows placed tally, in order the students view the rising of the sun from iside the
classroom.
The garden has a greenhouse, a vegetable garden and an open area for student's desks.
The natural soil of the land is maintained by avoiding construction to alter it.
Desks go down from the classroom along with the floor, with a lifting mechanism.
The yard is a big circular ramp with very small slope.
Protects students from obesity because it makes them walk.
When they go up they make good in their health and when they go down they have fun.
It has flower-beds with flowers in all its length and a drainage system for the collection of rainwater.
The highest point of ramp is south-eastern to allow students walking in the sunshine when they come out for
break.
The facilities includes w.c., cupboards students, a pharmacy for emergency care and warehouse for
classroom's equipment.
2) sustainability:
The building is constructed with no need to dig the soil of plot.
Construction does not alter the topography which is the fundamental environment.
the manufacture does not degrade the morphology of soil that
It is therefore a flyover classroom drifting between earth and sky.
It has a greenhouse for the exploitation of solar energy while the placement of classroom above the
greenhouse exploits the movement of hot air to above.
In the roof exists space to install photovoltaics, while on the four columns can be installed wind generators.
The walls must be curved to have a greater surface to the sun.
Each wall is a barrel that can be filled with different eco-materials like earthbags, strawballs, clay, bricks,
e.t.c.
Has systems of natural lighting and ventilation and the roof is ventilated to avoid overheating of the
classroom.
has systems of natural lighting and airing and her roof is [aerizomeni] in order to is avoided the overheat of
room.
The classroom is surrounded by plants for more cool and has a drainage system for the collection of
rainwater.
Has a fireplace for alternative heating, as well as for emergency purposes, like blackouts.
3) list of materials:
The classroom can be made from the following materials
concrete, steel, aluminium, wood, bamboo, soil, earthbags, strawballs, clay, bricks, fabrics, glass, plastic,
tiles, as well as with local materials and technics.
Login or register to post comments
Project Updates
Please note: This information is subject to our Terms of Use, including a specific disclaimer. It may also be subject to a Creative
Commons license that you should read and understand before making use of information you find here or posting to this area.
Selected Competition Site
Partner with a school of your choice
Discussion Forums
Join the conversation!
General Questions
Do you have general questions about
participating in the challenge? Post them
here, or see if they have already been asked
and answered.
view forum
Partner Requests
Are you a school that needs an architect to
team up with, or a architect that needs a
school? Post your information here, and find a
partner!
view forum
MBI Discussion Forum
Looking for answers to specific modular
classrooms questions? Ask you questions on
the Modular Building Institute forum.
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View full briefWe are inviting you, the designer, to work with students and teachers to design the
classroom of the future for a school of your choosing. Your design should address the
unique challenges your school faces in trying to provide innovative, safe and sustainable
learning spaces.
Find out what teachers and students in your school need to make their learning
environments more effective. Does the classroom inspire learning? Is it overcrowded?
Noisy? Does the classroom have natural daylight? What obstacles prevent schools from
upgrading classrooms or building additional classroom space? Show us how your design
would address the obstacles to providing inspiring learning spaces in your school.
You may partner with any primary or secondary school. (Please note: Classroom designs
for universities and other training academies are not eligible to win.) The school you
choose to partner with can be a local school or one in another region or country. Student
participation is strongly encouraged and will be considered by the jury. The competition
focuses on the design of a single, replicable adaptable classroom. Design teams are not
asked to submit designs for an entire school.
We've created teacher resources, including a design curriculum and web casts to help you
engage and inspire students. Who knows, one of the students you work with could be the
next Calatrava. And, you could be the one who inspired them to become a design
professional.
Challenge Resources
Your Classroom Brief
Urban Classroom Upgrade Brief
Rural Classroom Addition
Modular Classroom Design Brief
Challenge FAQ
Online Curriculum for Teachers
Online Webcast for Students
Building Standards
Indoor Air Quality
Lighting
Information Technology
Energy Efficiency
Facility and Student Performance
Curriculum
Green Building
Architecture as Learning
Tool
Adaptive Reuse
Design for Indigenous
Communities
International Design
US School Building
Guidelines
Videos
Misc. information and
articles
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elevations
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
KALLITECHNIKO GYMNASIO OF AMPELOKIPI
secondary school of fine arts.
HISTORY:
The school has been founded recently.
Operated for two years and has only two classes.
In regural operation is expected to have 6 classes.
Is a regular secondary school that has extra art lessons,
divided into groups of dance, painting and theater - cinema.
The students learn mathematic, physics, language and simultaneously
they learn dancing, painting, theatre and making films.
School temporarily housed in another school until its own school building will build up..
The plot exists, already has been bought from the municipality of Ampelokipi and this
moment becomes the debates on the architectural planning of new building.
Ladies and gentlemen, we present the concept and part of architectural preliminary
drafts of new building of artistic school.
SCHOOL'S ADMINISTRATION SAID:
Firstly the room must be large in relation with the number of students, that good will be it does not exceed
the twenty.
Desks placed circularly and flexibly, in order that the students work sometimes in teams, sometimes opens a
debate, in desks placed in U-shape, sometimes work certain alone, individually, others in teams,
proportionally with the object of teaching and the requirements of circumstance.
At least in one part of the classroom it is good to have a large carpet and big cushions, in order that certain
students, in relaxed disposal, can sit down and write a literary text, work in small teams on a script, process
a project in geography or in the biology, try a dramatization, while the remaining deal with something else.
Generally good is to create corners in the classroom, with parallel pastime of students on different sides of
the same subject ( collaboration of teachers of various items).
Parallel with the central library of the school, it is useful to have bookshelves in classroom, to host favorites
books of childrens, and the favorites cd's and dvd's, which will be parallel useful as starting points in various
instructive objects and in relative projects.
Furthermore, it is necessary an audio system, video, computers and projection screen, Internet connection,
to open a window to the world any time is necessary at the phases of teaching in the frame of
multiliteracies.
On the other hand there should be a real window to the world, in nature, namely: the class will be supposed
to view with large windows and glass in a green area with trees and flowers.
Stimuli in the multimodal approach of the world should come not only by technical means.
The child will be supposed to hear the real song of bird and inspired a text based on them, to actually see
colors and shapes of flowers and create art.
Even more, good will be the instructive classroom to have its own access to a small garden, to which will be
responsible the children of this class.
Flower-beds with flowers and with vegetables will need their care.
Trees will offer shade and the benches will be mounted in an appropriate manner, in order that lessons could
be outdoor, when the conditions allow it.
Back to indoors: the classroom may, in at least a part of, skylight on the roof, with appropriate treatment, to
allow light to enter the classroom, but to provide heat, other to be aggravating, when the temperature
Overall Rating:
Sustainability:
Innovative Materials:
Cost Effectiveness:
Open Architecture Challenge: Classroom
Challenge Overview
About the Challenge
School Building Partners
Traveling Exhibition
Conversations between architects and
students
Stories from participants
Videos of student participation
Guidelines
Press Room
Jury
Timeline
FAQ
Awards
Sponsors & Partners
Teacher & Student Resources
Discussion Forums
School Building Resources
Competition Details
Host: Architecture for Humanity
Category:
Type: Public
Registration Deadline: May 4 2009
Submission Deadline: June 1 2009
Entry Fee: $25 USD
Award: If your design wins, your
school will receive up to $50,000 in
funding for classroom construction
and upgrading. You will receiv
Contact: Sandhya
Status: Winners Announced
PROJECT DETAILS
NAME: flyover classroom
PROJECT LEAD: Kallitechniko
Gymnasio Ampelokipon (secondary
school for painting-dance-theatre-
cinema)
LOCATION: Thessaloniki, Makethonia,
Greece
START DATE: January 28, 2009
CURRENT PHASE: Design
development
COST: $50000 USD (Estimated)
BUILDING TYPE: Education Facility -
Secondary School
ARCHITECT: Konstantinos Zabetas
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION:
Orient Global
, Architecture for Humanity
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rising.
SCHOOL'S TEACHERS SAID:
if you give students a library, will bring books from home.
If they have suitable space they will bring a photograph, a printed page from something that moved their
the interest, a painting, a comment.
In this room the children do not seat nailed in hard seats. It is a medieval type torture (seven hours a day
for twelve years) for people full of life and vigor.
A corner that will watch the seasons, the sky, the rain, a corner with fireplace.
I imagine a school with a yard in its center, the nature. Rooms and laboratories built around from the yard in
a big circle with no corners.
PEDAGOGIC SOURCES:
A great teacher, Alexandros Delmouzos mentioned in the "secret school": one morning when I went down in
my office, I found certain students to seat around from the fireplace, where fire burned, thus front in the
beautiful fire I opened slowly a conversation, and students began to say their own stories.
ARCHITECTURAL CONTEXT:
In order to make a classroom as ask to us by the school, the teachers and the students, first we separate the
structural and architectural departments that constituting in two categories:
1) funcionality:
The entire classroom is a house with five rooms: the main classroom, the lounge, the garden, the yard and
the facilities.
We place the garden in the ground floor, we place the main classroom of teaching, the lounge and the
facilities in the above floor and the yard is placed in the intermediary.
The plan of this construction can be built with different materials, other for urban areas other for rural areas
and other for a portable version of the building.
The building hangs from a structural system that is independent and for its hanging can be used different
structural systems such as reinforced concrete or metal frame.
As basic unit of dimensioning was used a dimension of 0,6m = 2ft which produces all the other dimensions.
The main classroom is flexible and modifiable.
Its about 14 classrooms in one.
It takes the form of a typical classroom and can also be converted into an amphitheatre.
It can be transferred to the garden for outdoor lessons.
It is mainly litted up with natural lighting by the roof, while it has also a large northern window in the ceiling
for the students to view the sky and the seasons passing by.
Has its own system of natural ventilation and a kneeling system to improve its acoustics performance.
The interior design changes in order that is suitable for each one from the 7 types of courses (performances,
lectures, experiments, projections, debates, computers, workshops) while it has all essential equipment
(video, computers, benches, mirrors) that need these courses.
Shaping the change to be appropriate for each of the 7 types of courses, and has all necessary equipment
(video, computers, benches, mirrors) that need these courses.
The lounge placed around the rclassoom and has a fireplace, sofas and exhibitions surfaces, with its own
separate ventilation system.
The windows are positioned below the floor to allow students tthat sits down on sofas to watch the yard with
the flowers.
Thus they have the sense that the lounge is in the ground and no in the floor.
There are also eastern windows placed tally, in order the students view the rising of the sun from iside the
classroom.
The garden has a greenhouse, a vegetable garden and an open area for student's desks.
The natural soil of the land is maintained by avoiding construction to alter it.
Desks go down from the classroom along with the floor, with a lifting mechanism.
The yard is a big circular ramp with very small slope.
Protects students from obesity because it makes them walk.
When they go up they make good in their health and when they go down they have fun.
It has flower-beds with flowers in all its length and a drainage system for the collection of rainwater.
The highest point of ramp is south-eastern to allow students walking in the sunshine when they come out for
break.
The facilities includes w.c., cupboards students, a pharmacy for emergency care and warehouse for
classroom's equipment.
2) sustainability:
The building is constructed with no need to dig the soil of plot.
Construction does not alter the topography which is the fundamental environment.
the manufacture does not degrade the morphology of soil that
It is therefore a flyover classroom drifting between earth and sky.
It has a greenhouse for the exploitation of solar energy while the placement of classroom above the
greenhouse exploits the movement of hot air to above.
In the roof exists space to install photovoltaics, while on the four columns can be installed wind generators.
The walls must be curved to have a greater surface to the sun.
Each wall is a barrel that can be filled with different eco-materials like earthbags, strawballs, clay, bricks,
e.t.c.
Has systems of natural lighting and ventilation and the roof is ventilated to avoid overheating of the
classroom.
has systems of natural lighting and airing and her roof is [aerizomeni] in order to is avoided the overheat of
room.
The classroom is surrounded by plants for more cool and has a drainage system for the collection of
rainwater.
Has a fireplace for alternative heating, as well as for emergency purposes, like blackouts.
3) list of materials:
The classroom can be made from the following materials
concrete, steel, aluminium, wood, bamboo, soil, earthbags, strawballs, clay, bricks, fabrics, glass, plastic,
tiles, as well as with local materials and technics.
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classroom of the future for a school of your choosing. Your design should address the
unique challenges your school faces in trying to provide innovative, safe and sustainable
learning spaces.
Find out what teachers and students in your school need to make their learning
environments more effective. Does the classroom inspire learning? Is it overcrowded?
Noisy? Does the classroom have natural daylight? What obstacles prevent schools from
upgrading classrooms or building additional classroom space? Show us how your design
would address the obstacles to providing inspiring learning spaces in your school.
You may partner with any primary or secondary school. (Please note: Classroom designs
for universities and other training academies are not eligible to win.) The school you
choose to partner with can be a local school or one in another region or country. Student
participation is strongly encouraged and will be considered by the jury. The competition
focuses on the design of a single, replicable adaptable classroom. Design teams are not
asked to submit designs for an entire school.
We've created teacher resources, including a design curriculum and web casts to help you
engage and inspire students. Who knows, one of the students you work with could be the
next Calatrava. And, you could be the one who inspired them to become a design
professional.
Challenge Resources
Your Classroom Brief
Urban Classroom Upgrade Brief
Rural Classroom Addition
Modular Classroom Design Brief
Challenge FAQ
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Online Webcast for Students
Building Standards
Indoor Air Quality
Lighting
Information Technology
Energy Efficiency
Facility and Student Performance
Curriculum
Green Building
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PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
KALLITECHNIKO GYMNASIO OF AMPELOKIPI
secondary school of fine arts.
HISTORY:
The school has been founded recently.
Operated for two years and has only two classes.
In regural operation is expected to have 6 classes.
Is a regular secondary school that has extra art lessons,
divided into groups of dance, painting and theater - cinema.
The students learn mathematic, physics, language and simultaneously
they learn dancing, painting, theatre and making films.
School temporarily housed in another school until its own school building will build up..
The plot exists, already has been bought from the municipality of Ampelokipi and this
moment becomes the debates on the architectural planning of new building.
Ladies and gentlemen, we present the concept and part of architectural preliminary
drafts of new building of artistic school.
SCHOOL'S ADMINISTRATION SAID:
Firstly the room must be large in relation with the number of students, that good will be it does not exceed
the twenty.
Desks placed circularly and flexibly, in order that the students work sometimes in teams, sometimes opens a
debate, in desks placed in U-shape, sometimes work certain alone, individually, others in teams,
proportionally with the object of teaching and the requirements of circumstance.
At least in one part of the classroom it is good to have a large carpet and big cushions, in order that certain
students, in relaxed disposal, can sit down and write a literary text, work in small teams on a script, process
a project in geography or in the biology, try a dramatization, while the remaining deal with something else.
Generally good is to create corners in the classroom, with parallel pastime of students on different sides of
the same subject ( collaboration of teachers of various items).
Parallel with the central library of the school, it is useful to have bookshelves in classroom, to host favorites
books of childrens, and the favorites cd's and dvd's, which will be parallel useful as starting points in various
instructive objects and in relative projects.
Furthermore, it is necessary an audio system, video, computers and projection screen, Internet connection,
to open a window to the world any time is necessary at the phases of teaching in the frame of
multiliteracies.
On the other hand there should be a real window to the world, in nature, namely: the class will be supposed
to view with large windows and glass in a green area with trees and flowers.
Stimuli in the multimodal approach of the world should come not only by technical means.
The child will be supposed to hear the real song of bird and inspired a text based on them, to actually see
colors and shapes of flowers and create art.
Even more, good will be the instructive classroom to have its own access to a small garden, to which will be
responsible the children of this class.
Flower-beds with flowers and with vegetables will need their care.
Trees will offer shade and the benches will be mounted in an appropriate manner, in order that lessons could
be outdoor, when the conditions allow it.
Back to indoors: the classroom may, in at least a part of, skylight on the roof, with appropriate treatment, to
allow light to enter the classroom, but to provide heat, other to be aggravating, when the temperature
Overall Rating:
Sustainability:
Innovative Materials:
Cost Effectiveness:
Open Architecture Challenge: Classroom
Challenge Overview
About the Challenge
School Building Partners
Traveling Exhibition
Conversations between architects and
students
Stories from participants
Videos of student participation
Guidelines
Press Room
Jury
Timeline
FAQ
Awards
Sponsors & Partners
Teacher & Student Resources
Discussion Forums
School Building Resources
Competition Details
Host: Architecture for Humanity
Category:
Type: Public
Registration Deadline: May 4 2009
Submission Deadline: June 1 2009
Entry Fee: $25 USD
Award: If your design wins, your
school will receive up to $50,000 in
funding for classroom construction
and upgrading. You will receiv
Contact: Sandhya
Status: Winners Announced
PROJECT DETAILS
NAME: flyover classroom
PROJECT LEAD: Kallitechniko
Gymnasio Ampelokipon (secondary
school for painting-dance-theatre-
cinema)
LOCATION: Thessaloniki, Makethonia,
Greece
START DATE: January 28, 2009
CURRENT PHASE: Design
development
COST: $50000 USD (Estimated)
BUILDING TYPE: Education Facility -
Secondary School
ARCHITECT: Konstantinos Zabetas
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION:
Orient Global
, Architecture for Humanity
COPYRIGHT
© All Rights Reserved. This work is the
copyright of the author.
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rising.
SCHOOL'S TEACHERS SAID:
if you give students a library, will bring books from home.
If they have suitable space they will bring a photograph, a printed page from something that moved their
the interest, a painting, a comment.
In this room the children do not seat nailed in hard seats. It is a medieval type torture (seven hours a day
for twelve years) for people full of life and vigor.
A corner that will watch the seasons, the sky, the rain, a corner with fireplace.
I imagine a school with a yard in its center, the nature. Rooms and laboratories built around from the yard in
a big circle with no corners.
PEDAGOGIC SOURCES:
A great teacher, Alexandros Delmouzos mentioned in the "secret school": one morning when I went down in
my office, I found certain students to seat around from the fireplace, where fire burned, thus front in the
beautiful fire I opened slowly a conversation, and students began to say their own stories.
ARCHITECTURAL CONTEXT:
In order to make a classroom as ask to us by the school, the teachers and the students, first we separate the
structural and architectural departments that constituting in two categories:
1) funcionality:
The entire classroom is a house with five rooms: the main classroom, the lounge, the garden, the yard and
the facilities.
We place the garden in the ground floor, we place the main classroom of teaching, the lounge and the
facilities in the above floor and the yard is placed in the intermediary.
The plan of this construction can be built with different materials, other for urban areas other for rural areas
and other for a portable version of the building.
The building hangs from a structural system that is independent and for its hanging can be used different
structural systems such as reinforced concrete or metal frame.
As basic unit of dimensioning was used a dimension of 0,6m = 2ft which produces all the other dimensions.
The main classroom is flexible and modifiable.
Its about 14 classrooms in one.
It takes the form of a typical classroom and can also be converted into an amphitheatre.
It can be transferred to the garden for outdoor lessons.
It is mainly litted up with natural lighting by the roof, while it has also a large northern window in the ceiling
for the students to view the sky and the seasons passing by.
Has its own system of natural ventilation and a kneeling system to improve its acoustics performance.
The interior design changes in order that is suitable for each one from the 7 types of courses (performances,
lectures, experiments, projections, debates, computers, workshops) while it has all essential equipment
(video, computers, benches, mirrors) that need these courses.
Shaping the change to be appropriate for each of the 7 types of courses, and has all necessary equipment
(video, computers, benches, mirrors) that need these courses.
The lounge placed around the rclassoom and has a fireplace, sofas and exhibitions surfaces, with its own
separate ventilation system.
The windows are positioned below the floor to allow students tthat sits down on sofas to watch the yard with
the flowers.
Thus they have the sense that the lounge is in the ground and no in the floor.
There are also eastern windows placed tally, in order the students view the rising of the sun from iside the
classroom.
The garden has a greenhouse, a vegetable garden and an open area for student's desks.
The natural soil of the land is maintained by avoiding construction to alter it.
Desks go down from the classroom along with the floor, with a lifting mechanism.
The yard is a big circular ramp with very small slope.
Protects students from obesity because it makes them walk.
When they go up they make good in their health and when they go down they have fun.
It has flower-beds with flowers in all its length and a drainage system for the collection of rainwater.
The highest point of ramp is south-eastern to allow students walking in the sunshine when they come out for
break.
The facilities includes w.c., cupboards students, a pharmacy for emergency care and warehouse for
classroom's equipment.
2) sustainability:
The building is constructed with no need to dig the soil of plot.
Construction does not alter the topography which is the fundamental environment.
the manufacture does not degrade the morphology of soil that
It is therefore a flyover classroom drifting between earth and sky.
It has a greenhouse for the exploitation of solar energy while the placement of classroom above the
greenhouse exploits the movement of hot air to above.
In the roof exists space to install photovoltaics, while on the four columns can be installed wind generators.
The walls must be curved to have a greater surface to the sun.
Each wall is a barrel that can be filled with different eco-materials like earthbags, strawballs, clay, bricks,
e.t.c.
Has systems of natural lighting and ventilation and the roof is ventilated to avoid overheating of the
classroom.
has systems of natural lighting and airing and her roof is [aerizomeni] in order to is avoided the overheat of
room.
The classroom is surrounded by plants for more cool and has a drainage system for the collection of
rainwater.
Has a fireplace for alternative heating, as well as for emergency purposes, like blackouts.
3) list of materials:
The classroom can be made from the following materials
concrete, steel, aluminium, wood, bamboo, soil, earthbags, strawballs, clay, bricks, fabrics, glass, plastic,
tiles, as well as with local materials and technics.
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Selected Competition Site
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Discussion Forums
Join the conversation!
General Questions
Do you have general questions about
participating in the challenge? Post them
here, or see if they have already been asked
and answered.
view forum
Partner Requests
Are you a school that needs an architect to
team up with, or a architect that needs a
school? Post your information here, and find a
partner!
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View full briefWe are inviting you, the designer, to work with students and teachers to design the
classroom of the future for a school of your choosing. Your design should address the
unique challenges your school faces in trying to provide innovative, safe and sustainable
learning spaces.
Find out what teachers and students in your school need to make their learning
environments more effective. Does the classroom inspire learning? Is it overcrowded?
Noisy? Does the classroom have natural daylight? What obstacles prevent schools from
upgrading classrooms or building additional classroom space? Show us how your design
would address the obstacles to providing inspiring learning spaces in your school.
You may partner with any primary or secondary school. (Please note: Classroom designs
for universities and other training academies are not eligible to win.) The school you
choose to partner with can be a local school or one in another region or country. Student
participation is strongly encouraged and will be considered by the jury. The competition
focuses on the design of a single, replicable adaptable classroom. Design teams are not
asked to submit designs for an entire school.
We've created teacher resources, including a design curriculum and web casts to help you
engage and inspire students. Who knows, one of the students you work with could be the
next Calatrava. And, you could be the one who inspired them to become a design
professional.
Challenge Resources
Your Classroom Brief
Urban Classroom Upgrade Brief
Rural Classroom Addition
Modular Classroom Design Brief
Challenge FAQ
Online Curriculum for Teachers
Online Webcast for Students
Building Standards
Indoor Air Quality
Lighting
Information Technology
Energy Efficiency
Facility and Student Performance
Curriculum
Green Building
Architecture as Learning
Tool
Adaptive Reuse
Design for Indigenous
Communities
International Design
US School Building
Guidelines
Videos
Misc. information and
articles
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PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
KALLITECHNIKO GYMNASIO OF AMPELOKIPI
secondary school of fine arts.
HISTORY:
The school has been founded recently.
Operated for two years and has only two classes.
In regural operation is expected to have 6 classes.
Is a regular secondary school that has extra art lessons,
divided into groups of dance, painting and theater - cinema.
The students learn mathematic, physics, language and simultaneously
they learn dancing, painting, theatre and making films.
School temporarily housed in another school until its own school building will build up..
The plot exists, already has been bought from the municipality of Ampelokipi and this
moment becomes the debates on the architectural planning of new building.
Ladies and gentlemen, we present the concept and part of architectural preliminary
drafts of new building of artistic school.
SCHOOL'S ADMINISTRATION SAID:
Firstly the room must be large in relation with the number of students, that good will be it does not exceed
the twenty.
Desks placed circularly and flexibly, in order that the students work sometimes in teams, sometimes opens a
debate, in desks placed in U-shape, sometimes work certain alone, individually, others in teams,
proportionally with the object of teaching and the requirements of circumstance.
At least in one part of the classroom it is good to have a large carpet and big cushions, in order that certain
students, in relaxed disposal, can sit down and write a literary text, work in small teams on a script, process
a project in geography or in the biology, try a dramatization, while the remaining deal with something else.
Generally good is to create corners in the classroom, with parallel pastime of students on different sides of
the same subject ( collaboration of teachers of various items).
Parallel with the central library of the school, it is useful to have bookshelves in classroom, to host favorites
books of childrens, and the favorites cd's and dvd's, which will be parallel useful as starting points in various
instructive objects and in relative projects.
Furthermore, it is necessary an audio system, video, computers and projection screen, Internet connection,
to open a window to the world any time is necessary at the phases of teaching in the frame of
multiliteracies.
On the other hand there should be a real window to the world, in nature, namely: the class will be supposed
to view with large windows and glass in a green area with trees and flowers.
Stimuli in the multimodal approach of the world should come not only by technical means.
The child will be supposed to hear the real song of bird and inspired a text based on them, to actually see
colors and shapes of flowers and create art.
Even more, good will be the instructive classroom to have its own access to a small garden, to which will be
responsible the children of this class.
Flower-beds with flowers and with vegetables will need their care.
Trees will offer shade and the benches will be mounted in an appropriate manner, in order that lessons could
be outdoor, when the conditions allow it.
Back to indoors: the classroom may, in at least a part of, skylight on the roof, with appropriate treatment, to
allow light to enter the classroom, but to provide heat, other to be aggravating, when the temperature
Overall Rating:
Sustainability:
Innovative Materials:
Cost Effectiveness:
Open Architecture Challenge: Classroom
Challenge Overview
About the Challenge
School Building Partners
Traveling Exhibition
Conversations between architects and
students
Stories from participants
Videos of student participation
Guidelines
Press Room
Jury
Timeline
FAQ
Awards
Sponsors & Partners
Teacher & Student Resources
Discussion Forums
School Building Resources
Competition Details
Host: Architecture for Humanity
Category:
Type: Public
Registration Deadline: May 4 2009
Submission Deadline: June 1 2009
Entry Fee: $25 USD
Award: If your design wins, your
school will receive up to $50,000 in
funding for classroom construction
and upgrading. You will receiv
Contact: Sandhya
Status: Winners Announced
PROJECT DETAILS
NAME: flyover classroom
PROJECT LEAD: Kallitechniko
Gymnasio Ampelokipon (secondary
school for painting-dance-theatre-
cinema)
LOCATION: Thessaloniki, Makethonia,
Greece
START DATE: January 28, 2009
CURRENT PHASE: Design
development
COST: $50000 USD (Estimated)
BUILDING TYPE: Education Facility -
Secondary School
ARCHITECT: Konstantinos Zabetas
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SCHOOL'S TEACHERS SAID:
if you give students a library, will bring books from home.
If they have suitable space they will bring a photograph, a printed page from something that moved their
the interest, a painting, a comment.
In this room the children do not seat nailed in hard seats. It is a medieval type torture (seven hours a day
for twelve years) for people full of life and vigor.
A corner that will watch the seasons, the sky, the rain, a corner with fireplace.
I imagine a school with a yard in its center, the nature. Rooms and laboratories built around from the yard in
a big circle with no corners.
PEDAGOGIC SOURCES:
A great teacher, Alexandros Delmouzos mentioned in the "secret school": one morning when I went down in
my office, I found certain students to seat around from the fireplace, where fire burned, thus front in the
beautiful fire I opened slowly a conversation, and students began to say their own stories.
ARCHITECTURAL CONTEXT:
In order to make a classroom as ask to us by the school, the teachers and the students, first we separate the
structural and architectural departments that constituting in two categories:
1) funcionality:
The entire classroom is a house with five rooms: the main classroom, the lounge, the garden, the yard and
the facilities.
We place the garden in the ground floor, we place the main classroom of teaching, the lounge and the
facilities in the above floor and the yard is placed in the intermediary.
The plan of this construction can be built with different materials, other for urban areas other for rural areas
and other for a portable version of the building.
The building hangs from a structural system that is independent and for its hanging can be used different
structural systems such as reinforced concrete or metal frame.
As basic unit of dimensioning was used a dimension of 0,6m = 2ft which produces all the other dimensions.
The main classroom is flexible and modifiable.
Its about 14 classrooms in one.
It takes the form of a typical classroom and can also be converted into an amphitheatre.
It can be transferred to the garden for outdoor lessons.
It is mainly litted up with natural lighting by the roof, while it has also a large northern window in the ceiling
for the students to view the sky and the seasons passing by.
Has its own system of natural ventilation and a kneeling system to improve its acoustics performance.
The interior design changes in order that is suitable for each one from the 7 types of courses (performances,
lectures, experiments, projections, debates, computers, workshops) while it has all essential equipment
(video, computers, benches, mirrors) that need these courses.
Shaping the change to be appropriate for each of the 7 types of courses, and has all necessary equipment
(video, computers, benches, mirrors) that need these courses.
The lounge placed around the rclassoom and has a fireplace, sofas and exhibitions surfaces, with its own
separate ventilation system.
The windows are positioned below the floor to allow students tthat sits down on sofas to watch the yard with
the flowers.
Thus they have the sense that the lounge is in the ground and no in the floor.
There are also eastern windows placed tally, in order the students view the rising of the sun from iside the
classroom.
The garden has a greenhouse, a vegetable garden and an open area for student's desks.
The natural soil of the land is maintained by avoiding construction to alter it.
Desks go down from the classroom along with the floor, with a lifting mechanism.
The yard is a big circular ramp with very small slope.
Protects students from obesity because it makes them walk.
When they go up they make good in their health and when they go down they have fun.
It has flower-beds with flowers in all its length and a drainage system for the collection of rainwater.
The highest point of ramp is south-eastern to allow students walking in the sunshine when they come out for
break.
The facilities includes w.c., cupboards students, a pharmacy for emergency care and warehouse for
classroom's equipment.
2) sustainability:
The building is constructed with no need to dig the soil of plot.
Construction does not alter the topography which is the fundamental environment.
the manufacture does not degrade the morphology of soil that
It is therefore a flyover classroom drifting between earth and sky.
It has a greenhouse for the exploitation of solar energy while the placement of classroom above the
greenhouse exploits the movement of hot air to above.
In the roof exists space to install photovoltaics, while on the four columns can be installed wind generators.
The walls must be curved to have a greater surface to the sun.
Each wall is a barrel that can be filled with different eco-materials like earthbags, strawballs, clay, bricks,
e.t.c.
Has systems of natural lighting and ventilation and the roof is ventilated to avoid overheating of the
classroom.
has systems of natural lighting and airing and her roof is [aerizomeni] in order to is avoided the overheat of
room.
The classroom is surrounded by plants for more cool and has a drainage system for the collection of
rainwater.
Has a fireplace for alternative heating, as well as for emergency purposes, like blackouts.
3) list of materials:
The classroom can be made from the following materials
concrete, steel, aluminium, wood, bamboo, soil, earthbags, strawballs, clay, bricks, fabrics, glass, plastic,
tiles, as well as with local materials and technics.
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classroom of the future for a school of your choosing. Your design should address the
unique challenges your school faces in trying to provide innovative, safe and sustainable
learning spaces.
Find out what teachers and students in your school need to make their learning
environments more effective. Does the classroom inspire learning? Is it overcrowded?
Noisy? Does the classroom have natural daylight? What obstacles prevent schools from
upgrading classrooms or building additional classroom space? Show us how your design
would address the obstacles to providing inspiring learning spaces in your school.
You may partner with any primary or secondary school. (Please note: Classroom designs
for universities and other training academies are not eligible to win.) The school you
choose to partner with can be a local school or one in another region or country. Student
participation is strongly encouraged and will be considered by the jury. The competition
focuses on the design of a single, replicable adaptable classroom. Design teams are not
asked to submit designs for an entire school.
We've created teacher resources, including a design curriculum and web casts to help you
engage and inspire students. Who knows, one of the students you work with could be the
next Calatrava. And, you could be the one who inspired them to become a design
professional.
Challenge Resources
Your Classroom Brief
Urban Classroom Upgrade Brief
Rural Classroom Addition
Modular Classroom Design Brief
Challenge FAQ
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Building Standards
Indoor Air Quality
Lighting
Information Technology
Energy Efficiency
Facility and Student Performance
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PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
KALLITECHNIKO GYMNASIO OF AMPELOKIPI
secondary school of fine arts.
HISTORY:
The school has been founded recently.
Operated for two years and has only two classes.
In regural operation is expected to have 6 classes.
Is a regular secondary school that has extra art lessons,
divided into groups of dance, painting and theater - cinema.
The students learn mathematic, physics, language and simultaneously
they learn dancing, painting, theatre and making films.
School temporarily housed in another school until its own school building will build up..
The plot exists, already has been bought from the municipality of Ampelokipi and this
moment becomes the debates on the architectural planning of new building.
Ladies and gentlemen, we present the concept and part of architectural preliminary
drafts of new building of artistic school.
SCHOOL'S ADMINISTRATION SAID:
Firstly the room must be large in relation with the number of students, that good will be it does not exceed
the twenty.
Desks placed circularly and flexibly, in order that the students work sometimes in teams, sometimes opens a
debate, in desks placed in U-shape, sometimes work certain alone, individually, others in teams,
proportionally with the object of teaching and the requirements of circumstance.
At least in one part of the classroom it is good to have a large carpet and big cushions, in order that certain
students, in relaxed disposal, can sit down and write a literary text, work in small teams on a script, process
a project in geography or in the biology, try a dramatization, while the remaining deal with something else.
Generally good is to create corners in the classroom, with parallel pastime of students on different sides of
the same subject ( collaboration of teachers of various items).
Parallel with the central library of the school, it is useful to have bookshelves in classroom, to host favorites
books of childrens, and the favorites cd's and dvd's, which will be parallel useful as starting points in various
instructive objects and in relative projects.
Furthermore, it is necessary an audio system, video, computers and projection screen, Internet connection,
to open a window to the world any time is necessary at the phases of teaching in the frame of
multiliteracies.
On the other hand there should be a real window to the world, in nature, namely: the class will be supposed
to view with large windows and glass in a green area with trees and flowers.
Stimuli in the multimodal approach of the world should come not only by technical means.
The child will be supposed to hear the real song of bird and inspired a text based on them, to actually see
colors and shapes of flowers and create art.
Even more, good will be the instructive classroom to have its own access to a small garden, to which will be
responsible the children of this class.
Flower-beds with flowers and with vegetables will need their care.
Trees will offer shade and the benches will be mounted in an appropriate manner, in order that lessons could
be outdoor, when the conditions allow it.
Back to indoors: the classroom may, in at least a part of, skylight on the roof, with appropriate treatment, to
allow light to enter the classroom, but to provide heat, other to be aggravating, when the temperature
Overall Rating:
Sustainability:
Innovative Materials:
Cost Effectiveness:
Open Architecture Challenge: Classroom
Challenge Overview
About the Challenge
School Building Partners
Traveling Exhibition
Conversations between architects and
students
Stories from participants
Videos of student participation
Guidelines
Press Room
Jury
Timeline
FAQ
Awards
Sponsors & Partners
Teacher & Student Resources
Discussion Forums
School Building Resources
Competition Details
Host: Architecture for Humanity
Category:
Type: Public
Registration Deadline: May 4 2009
Submission Deadline: June 1 2009
Entry Fee: $25 USD
Award: If your design wins, your
school will receive up to $50,000 in
funding for classroom construction
and upgrading. You will receiv
Contact: Sandhya
Status: Winners Announced
PROJECT DETAILS
NAME: flyover classroom
PROJECT LEAD: Kallitechniko
Gymnasio Ampelokipon (secondary
school for painting-dance-theatre-
cinema)
LOCATION: Thessaloniki, Makethonia,
Greece
START DATE: January 28, 2009
CURRENT PHASE: Design
development
COST: $50000 USD (Estimated)
BUILDING TYPE: Education Facility -
Secondary School
ARCHITECT: Konstantinos Zabetas
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION:
Orient Global
, Architecture for Humanity
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rising.
SCHOOL'S TEACHERS SAID:
if you give students a library, will bring books from home.
If they have suitable space they will bring a photograph, a printed page from something that moved their
the interest, a painting, a comment.
In this room the children do not seat nailed in hard seats. It is a medieval type torture (seven hours a day
for twelve years) for people full of life and vigor.
A corner that will watch the seasons, the sky, the rain, a corner with fireplace.
I imagine a school with a yard in its center, the nature. Rooms and laboratories built around from the yard in
a big circle with no corners.
PEDAGOGIC SOURCES:
A great teacher, Alexandros Delmouzos mentioned in the "secret school": one morning when I went down in
my office, I found certain students to seat around from the fireplace, where fire burned, thus front in the
beautiful fire I opened slowly a conversation, and students began to say their own stories.
ARCHITECTURAL CONTEXT:
In order to make a classroom as ask to us by the school, the teachers and the students, first we separate the
structural and architectural departments that constituting in two categories:
1) funcionality:
The entire classroom is a house with five rooms: the main classroom, the lounge, the garden, the yard and
the facilities.
We place the garden in the ground floor, we place the main classroom of teaching, the lounge and the
facilities in the above floor and the yard is placed in the intermediary.
The plan of this construction can be built with different materials, other for urban areas other for rural areas
and other for a portable version of the building.
The building hangs from a structural system that is independent and for its hanging can be used different
structural systems such as reinforced concrete or metal frame.
As basic unit of dimensioning was used a dimension of 0,6m = 2ft which produces all the other dimensions.
The main classroom is flexible and modifiable.
Its about 14 classrooms in one.
It takes the form of a typical classroom and can also be converted into an amphitheatre.
It can be transferred to the garden for outdoor lessons.
It is mainly litted up with natural lighting by the roof, while it has also a large northern window in the ceiling
for the students to view the sky and the seasons passing by.
Has its own system of natural ventilation and a kneeling system to improve its acoustics performance.
The interior design changes in order that is suitable for each one from the 7 types of courses (performances,
lectures, experiments, projections, debates, computers, workshops) while it has all essential equipment
(video, computers, benches, mirrors) that need these courses.
Shaping the change to be appropriate for each of the 7 types of courses, and has all necessary equipment
(video, computers, benches, mirrors) that need these courses.
The lounge placed around the rclassoom and has a fireplace, sofas and exhibitions surfaces, with its own
separate ventilation system.
The windows are positioned below the floor to allow students tthat sits down on sofas to watch the yard with
the flowers.
Thus they have the sense that the lounge is in the ground and no in the floor.
There are also eastern windows placed tally, in order the students view the rising of the sun from iside the
classroom.
The garden has a greenhouse, a vegetable garden and an open area for student's desks.
The natural soil of the land is maintained by avoiding construction to alter it.
Desks go down from the classroom along with the floor, with a lifting mechanism.
The yard is a big circular ramp with very small slope.
Protects students from obesity because it makes them walk.
When they go up they make good in their health and when they go down they have fun.
It has flower-beds with flowers in all its length and a drainage system for the collection of rainwater.
The highest point of ramp is south-eastern to allow students walking in the sunshine when they come out for
break.
The facilities includes w.c., cupboards students, a pharmacy for emergency care and warehouse for
classroom's equipment.
2) sustainability:
The building is constructed with no need to dig the soil of plot.
Construction does not alter the topography which is the fundamental environment.
the manufacture does not degrade the morphology of soil that
It is therefore a flyover classroom drifting between earth and sky.
It has a greenhouse for the exploitation of solar energy while the placement of classroom above the
greenhouse exploits the movement of hot air to above.
In the roof exists space to install photovoltaics, while on the four columns can be installed wind generators.
The walls must be curved to have a greater surface to the sun.
Each wall is a barrel that can be filled with different eco-materials like earthbags, strawballs, clay, bricks,
e.t.c.
Has systems of natural lighting and ventilation and the roof is ventilated to avoid overheating of the
classroom.
has systems of natural lighting and airing and her roof is [aerizomeni] in order to is avoided the overheat of
room.
The classroom is surrounded by plants for more cool and has a drainage system for the collection of
rainwater.
Has a fireplace for alternative heating, as well as for emergency purposes, like blackouts.
3) list of materials:
The classroom can be made from the following materials
concrete, steel, aluminium, wood, bamboo, soil, earthbags, strawballs, clay, bricks, fabrics, glass, plastic,
tiles, as well as with local materials and technics.
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Discussion Forums
Join the conversation!
General Questions
Do you have general questions about
participating in the challenge? Post them
here, or see if they have already been asked
and answered.
view forum
Partner Requests
Are you a school that needs an architect to
team up with, or a architect that needs a
school? Post your information here, and find a
partner!
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View full briefWe are inviting you, the designer, to work with students and teachers to design the
classroom of the future for a school of your choosing. Your design should address the
unique challenges your school faces in trying to provide innovative, safe and sustainable
learning spaces.
Find out what teachers and students in your school need to make their learning
environments more effective. Does the classroom inspire learning? Is it overcrowded?
Noisy? Does the classroom have natural daylight? What obstacles prevent schools from
upgrading classrooms or building additional classroom space? Show us how your design
would address the obstacles to providing inspiring learning spaces in your school.
You may partner with any primary or secondary school. (Please note: Classroom designs
for universities and other training academies are not eligible to win.) The school you
choose to partner with can be a local school or one in another region or country. Student
participation is strongly encouraged and will be considered by the jury. The competition
focuses on the design of a single, replicable adaptable classroom. Design teams are not
asked to submit designs for an entire school.
We've created teacher resources, including a design curriculum and web casts to help you
engage and inspire students. Who knows, one of the students you work with could be the
next Calatrava. And, you could be the one who inspired them to become a design
professional.
Challenge Resources
Your Classroom Brief
Urban Classroom Upgrade Brief
Rural Classroom Addition
Modular Classroom Design Brief
Challenge FAQ
Online Curriculum for Teachers
Online Webcast for Students
Building Standards
Indoor Air Quality
Lighting
Information Technology
Energy Efficiency
Facility and Student Performance
Curriculum
Green Building
Architecture as Learning
Tool
Adaptive Reuse
Design for Indigenous
Communities
International Design
US School Building
Guidelines
Videos
Misc. information and
articles
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PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
KALLITECHNIKO GYMNASIO OF AMPELOKIPI
secondary school of fine arts.
HISTORY:
The school has been founded recently.
Operated for two years and has only two classes.
In regural operation is expected to have 6 classes.
Is a regular secondary school that has extra art lessons,
divided into groups of dance, painting and theater - cinema.
The students learn mathematic, physics, language and simultaneously
they learn dancing, painting, theatre and making films.
School temporarily housed in another school until its own school building will build up..
The plot exists, already has been bought from the municipality of Ampelokipi and this
moment becomes the debates on the architectural planning of new building.
Ladies and gentlemen, we present the concept and part of architectural preliminary
drafts of new building of artistic school.
SCHOOL'S ADMINISTRATION SAID:
Firstly the room must be large in relation with the number of students, that good will be it does not exceed
the twenty.
Desks placed circularly and flexibly, in order that the students work sometimes in teams, sometimes opens a
debate, in desks placed in U-shape, sometimes work certain alone, individually, others in teams,
proportionally with the object of teaching and the requirements of circumstance.
At least in one part of the classroom it is good to have a large carpet and big cushions, in order that certain
students, in relaxed disposal, can sit down and write a literary text, work in small teams on a script, process
a project in geography or in the biology, try a dramatization, while the remaining deal with something else.
Generally good is to create corners in the classroom, with parallel pastime of students on different sides of
the same subject ( collaboration of teachers of various items).
Parallel with the central library of the school, it is useful to have bookshelves in classroom, to host favorites
books of childrens, and the favorites cd's and dvd's, which will be parallel useful as starting points in various
instructive objects and in relative projects.
Furthermore, it is necessary an audio system, video, computers and projection screen, Internet connection,
to open a window to the world any time is necessary at the phases of teaching in the frame of
multiliteracies.
On the other hand there should be a real window to the world, in nature, namely: the class will be supposed
to view with large windows and glass in a green area with trees and flowers.
Stimuli in the multimodal approach of the world should come not only by technical means.
The child will be supposed to hear the real song of bird and inspired a text based on them, to actually see
colors and shapes of flowers and create art.
Even more, good will be the instructive classroom to have its own access to a small garden, to which will be
responsible the children of this class.
Flower-beds with flowers and with vegetables will need their care.
Trees will offer shade and the benches will be mounted in an appropriate manner, in order that lessons could
be outdoor, when the conditions allow it.
Back to indoors: the classroom may, in at least a part of, skylight on the roof, with appropriate treatment, to
allow light to enter the classroom, but to provide heat, other to be aggravating, when the temperature
Overall Rating:
Sustainability:
Innovative Materials:
Cost Effectiveness:
Open Architecture Challenge: Classroom
Challenge Overview
About the Challenge
School Building Partners
Traveling Exhibition
Conversations between architects and
students
Stories from participants
Videos of student participation
Guidelines
Press Room
Jury
Timeline
FAQ
Awards
Sponsors & Partners
Teacher & Student Resources
Discussion Forums
School Building Resources
Competition Details
Host: Architecture for Humanity
Category:
Type: Public
Registration Deadline: May 4 2009
Submission Deadline: June 1 2009
Entry Fee: $25 USD
Award: If your design wins, your
school will receive up to $50,000 in
funding for classroom construction
and upgrading. You will receiv
Contact: Sandhya
Status: Winners Announced
PROJECT DETAILS
NAME: flyover classroom
PROJECT LEAD: Kallitechniko
Gymnasio Ampelokipon (secondary
school for painting-dance-theatre-
cinema)
LOCATION: Thessaloniki, Makethonia,
Greece
START DATE: January 28, 2009
CURRENT PHASE: Design
development
COST: $50000 USD (Estimated)
BUILDING TYPE: Education Facility -
Secondary School
ARCHITECT: Konstantinos Zabetas
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION:
Orient Global
, Architecture for Humanity
COPYRIGHT
© All Rights Reserved. This work is the
copyright of the author.
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rising.
SCHOOL'S TEACHERS SAID:
if you give students a library, will bring books from home.
If they have suitable space they will bring a photograph, a printed page from something that moved their
the interest, a painting, a comment.
In this room the children do not seat nailed in hard seats. It is a medieval type torture (seven hours a day
for twelve years) for people full of life and vigor.
A corner that will watch the seasons, the sky, the rain, a corner with fireplace.
I imagine a school with a yard in its center, the nature. Rooms and laboratories built around from the yard in
a big circle with no corners.
PEDAGOGIC SOURCES:
A great teacher, Alexandros Delmouzos mentioned in the "secret school": one morning when I went down in
my office, I found certain students to seat around from the fireplace, where fire burned, thus front in the
beautiful fire I opened slowly a conversation, and students began to say their own stories.
ARCHITECTURAL CONTEXT:
In order to make a classroom as ask to us by the school, the teachers and the students, first we separate the
structural and architectural departments that constituting in two categories:
1) funcionality:
The entire classroom is a house with five rooms: the main classroom, the lounge, the garden, the yard and
the facilities.
We place the garden in the ground floor, we place the main classroom of teaching, the lounge and the
facilities in the above floor and the yard is placed in the intermediary.
The plan of this construction can be built with different materials, other for urban areas other for rural areas
and other for a portable version of the building.
The building hangs from a structural system that is independent and for its hanging can be used different
structural systems such as reinforced concrete or metal frame.
As basic unit of dimensioning was used a dimension of 0,6m = 2ft which produces all the other dimensions.
The main classroom is flexible and modifiable.
Its about 14 classrooms in one.
It takes the form of a typical classroom and can also be converted into an amphitheatre.
It can be transferred to the garden for outdoor lessons.
It is mainly litted up with natural lighting by the roof, while it has also a large northern window in the ceiling
for the students to view the sky and the seasons passing by.
Has its own system of natural ventilation and a kneeling system to improve its acoustics performance.
The interior design changes in order that is suitable for each one from the 7 types of courses (performances,
lectures, experiments, projections, debates, computers, workshops) while it has all essential equipment
(video, computers, benches, mirrors) that need these courses.
Shaping the change to be appropriate for each of the 7 types of courses, and has all necessary equipment
(video, computers, benches, mirrors) that need these courses.
The lounge placed around the rclassoom and has a fireplace, sofas and exhibitions surfaces, with its own
separate ventilation system.
The windows are positioned below the floor to allow students tthat sits down on sofas to watch the yard with
the flowers.
Thus they have the sense that the lounge is in the ground and no in the floor.
There are also eastern windows placed tally, in order the students view the rising of the sun from iside the
classroom.
The garden has a greenhouse, a vegetable garden and an open area for student's desks.
The natural soil of the land is maintained by avoiding construction to alter it.
Desks go down from the classroom along with the floor, with a lifting mechanism.
The yard is a big circular ramp with very small slope.
Protects students from obesity because it makes them walk.
When they go up they make good in their health and when they go down they have fun.
It has flower-beds with flowers in all its length and a drainage system for the collection of rainwater.
The highest point of ramp is south-eastern to allow students walking in the sunshine when they come out for
break.
The facilities includes w.c., cupboards students, a pharmacy for emergency care and warehouse for
classroom's equipment.
2) sustainability:
The building is constructed with no need to dig the soil of plot.
Construction does not alter the topography which is the fundamental environment.
the manufacture does not degrade the morphology of soil that
It is therefore a flyover classroom drifting between earth and sky.
It has a greenhouse for the exploitation of solar energy while the placement of classroom above the
greenhouse exploits the movement of hot air to above.
In the roof exists space to install photovoltaics, while on the four columns can be installed wind generators.
The walls must be curved to have a greater surface to the sun.
Each wall is a barrel that can be filled with different eco-materials like earthbags, strawballs, clay, bricks,
e.t.c.
Has systems of natural lighting and ventilation and the roof is ventilated to avoid overheating of the
classroom.
has systems of natural lighting and airing and her roof is [aerizomeni] in order to is avoided the overheat of
room.
The classroom is surrounded by plants for more cool and has a drainage system for the collection of
rainwater.
Has a fireplace for alternative heating, as well as for emergency purposes, like blackouts.
3) list of materials:
The classroom can be made from the following materials
concrete, steel, aluminium, wood, bamboo, soil, earthbags, strawballs, clay, bricks, fabrics, glass, plastic,
tiles, as well as with local materials and technics.
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classroom of the future for a school of your choosing. Your design should address the
unique challenges your school faces in trying to provide innovative, safe and sustainable
learning spaces.
Find out what teachers and students in your school need to make their learning
environments more effective. Does the classroom inspire learning? Is it overcrowded?
Noisy? Does the classroom have natural daylight? What obstacles prevent schools from
upgrading classrooms or building additional classroom space? Show us how your design
would address the obstacles to providing inspiring learning spaces in your school.
You may partner with any primary or secondary school. (Please note: Classroom designs
for universities and other training academies are not eligible to win.) The school you
choose to partner with can be a local school or one in another region or country. Student
participation is strongly encouraged and will be considered by the jury. The competition
focuses on the design of a single, replicable adaptable classroom. Design teams are not
asked to submit designs for an entire school.
We've created teacher resources, including a design curriculum and web casts to help you
engage and inspire students. Who knows, one of the students you work with could be the
next Calatrava. And, you could be the one who inspired them to become a design
professional.
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PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
KALLITECHNIKO GYMNASIO OF AMPELOKIPI
secondary school of fine arts.
HISTORY:
The school has been founded recently.
Operated for two years and has only two classes.
In regural operation is expected to have 6 classes.
Is a regular secondary school that has extra art lessons,
divided into groups of dance, painting and theater - cinema.
The students learn mathematic, physics, language and simultaneously
they learn dancing, painting, theatre and making films.
School temporarily housed in another school until its own school building will build up..
The plot exists, already has been bought from the municipality of Ampelokipi and this
moment becomes the debates on the architectural planning of new building.
Ladies and gentlemen, we present the concept and part of architectural preliminary
drafts of new building of artistic school.
SCHOOL'S ADMINISTRATION SAID:
Firstly the room must be large in relation with the number of students, that good will be it does not exceed
the twenty.
Desks placed circularly and flexibly, in order that the students work sometimes in teams, sometimes opens a
debate, in desks placed in U-shape, sometimes work certain alone, individually, others in teams,
proportionally with the object of teaching and the requirements of circumstance.
At least in one part of the classroom it is good to have a large carpet and big cushions, in order that certain
students, in relaxed disposal, can sit down and write a literary text, work in small teams on a script, process
a project in geography or in the biology, try a dramatization, while the remaining deal with something else.
Generally good is to create corners in the classroom, with parallel pastime of students on different sides of
the same subject ( collaboration of teachers of various items).
Parallel with the central library of the school, it is useful to have bookshelves in classroom, to host favorites
books of childrens, and the favorites cd's and dvd's, which will be parallel useful as starting points in various
instructive objects and in relative projects.
Furthermore, it is necessary an audio system, video, computers and projection screen, Internet connection,
to open a window to the world any time is necessary at the phases of teaching in the frame of
multiliteracies.
On the other hand there should be a real window to the world, in nature, namely: the class will be supposed
to view with large windows and glass in a green area with trees and flowers.
Stimuli in the multimodal approach of the world should come not only by technical means.
The child will be supposed to hear the real song of bird and inspired a text based on them, to actually see
colors and shapes of flowers and create art.
Even more, good will be the instructive classroom to have its own access to a small garden, to which will be
responsible the children of this class.
Flower-beds with flowers and with vegetables will need their care.
Trees will offer shade and the benches will be mounted in an appropriate manner, in order that lessons could
be outdoor, when the conditions allow it.
Back to indoors: the classroom may, in at least a part of, skylight on the roof, with appropriate treatment, to
allow light to enter the classroom, but to provide heat, other to be aggravating, when the temperature
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Open Architecture Challenge: Classroom
Challenge Overview
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Host: Architecture for Humanity
Category:
Type: Public
Registration Deadline: May 4 2009
Submission Deadline: June 1 2009
Entry Fee: $25 USD
Award: If your design wins, your
school will receive up to $50,000 in
funding for classroom construction
and upgrading. You will receiv
Contact: Sandhya
Status: Winners Announced
PROJECT DETAILS
NAME: flyover classroom
PROJECT LEAD: Kallitechniko
Gymnasio Ampelokipon (secondary
school for painting-dance-theatre-
cinema)
LOCATION: Thessaloniki, Makethonia,
Greece
START DATE: January 28, 2009
CURRENT PHASE: Design
development
COST: $50000 USD (Estimated)
BUILDING TYPE: Education Facility -
Secondary School
ARCHITECT: Konstantinos Zabetas
SPONSORING ORGANIZATION:
Orient Global
, Architecture for Humanity
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rising.
SCHOOL'S TEACHERS SAID:
if you give students a library, will bring books from home.
If they have suitable space they will bring a photograph, a printed page from something that moved their
the interest, a painting, a comment.
In this room the children do not seat nailed in hard seats. It is a medieval type torture (seven hours a day
for twelve years) for people full of life and vigor.
A corner that will watch the seasons, the sky, the rain, a corner with fireplace.
I imagine a school with a yard in its center, the nature. Rooms and laboratories built around from the yard in
a big circle with no corners.
PEDAGOGIC SOURCES:
A great teacher, Alexandros Delmouzos mentioned in the "secret school": one morning when I went down in
my office, I found certain students to seat around from the fireplace, where fire burned, thus front in the
beautiful fire I opened slowly a conversation, and students began to say their own stories.
ARCHITECTURAL CONTEXT:
In order to make a classroom as ask to us by the school, the teachers and the students, first we separate the
structural and architectural departments that constituting in two categories:
1) funcionality:
The entire classroom is a house with five rooms: the main classroom, the lounge, the garden, the yard and
the facilities.
We place the garden in the ground floor, we place the main classroom of teaching, the lounge and the
facilities in the above floor and the yard is placed in the intermediary.
The plan of this construction can be built with different materials, other for urban areas other for rural areas
and other for a portable version of the building.
The building hangs from a structural system that is independent and for its hanging can be used different
structural systems such as reinforced concrete or metal frame.
As basic unit of dimensioning was used a dimension of 0,6m = 2ft which produces all the other dimensions.
The main classroom is flexible and modifiable.
Its about 14 classrooms in one.
It takes the form of a typical classroom and can also be converted into an amphitheatre.
It can be transferred to the garden for outdoor lessons.
It is mainly litted up with natural lighting by the roof, while it has also a large northern window in the ceiling
for the students to view the sky and the seasons passing by.
Has its own system of natural ventilation and a kneeling system to improve its acoustics performance.
The interior design changes in order that is suitable for each one from the 7 types of courses (performances,
lectures, experiments, projections, debates, computers, workshops) while it has all essential equipment
(video, computers, benches, mirrors) that need these courses.
Shaping the change to be appropriate for each of the 7 types of courses, and has all necessary equipment
(video, computers, benches, mirrors) that need these courses.
The lounge placed around the rclassoom and has a fireplace, sofas and exhibitions surfaces, with its own
separate ventilation system.
The windows are positioned below the floor to allow students tthat sits down on sofas to watch the yard with
the flowers.
Thus they have the sense that the lounge is in the ground and no in the floor.
There are also eastern windows placed tally, in order the students view the rising of the sun from iside the
classroom.
The garden has a greenhouse, a vegetable garden and an open area for student's desks.
The natural soil of the land is maintained by avoiding construction to alter it.
Desks go down from the classroom along with the floor, with a lifting mechanism.
The yard is a big circular ramp with very small slope.
Protects students from obesity because it makes them walk.
When they go up they make good in their health and when they go down they have fun.
It has flower-beds with flowers in all its length and a drainage system for the collection of rainwater.
The highest point of ramp is south-eastern to allow students walking in the sunshine when they come out for
break.
The facilities includes w.c., cupboards students, a pharmacy for emergency care and warehouse for
classroom's equipment.
2) sustainability:
The building is constructed with no need to dig the soil of plot.
Construction does not alter the topography which is the fundamental environment.
the manufacture does not degrade the morphology of soil that
It is therefore a flyover classroom drifting between earth and sky.
It has a greenhouse for the exploitation of solar energy while the placement of classroom above the
greenhouse exploits the movement of hot air to above.
In the roof exists space to install photovoltaics, while on the four columns can be installed wind generators.
The walls must be curved to have a greater surface to the sun.
Each wall is a barrel that can be filled with different eco-materials like earthbags, strawballs, clay, bricks,
e.t.c.
Has systems of natural lighting and ventilation and the roof is ventilated to avoid overheating of the
classroom.
has systems of natural lighting and airing and her roof is [aerizomeni] in order to is avoided the overheat of
room.
The classroom is surrounded by plants for more cool and has a drainage system for the collection of
rainwater.
Has a fireplace for alternative heating, as well as for emergency purposes, like blackouts.
3) list of materials:
The classroom can be made from the following materials
concrete, steel, aluminium, wood, bamboo, soil, earthbags, strawballs, clay, bricks, fabrics, glass, plastic,
tiles, as well as with local materials and technics.
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General Questions
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and answered.
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school? Post your information here, and find a
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View full briefWe are inviting you, the designer, to work with students and teachers to design the
classroom of the future for a school of your choosing. Your design should address the
unique challenges your school faces in trying to provide innovative, safe and sustainable
learning spaces.
Find out what teachers and students in your school need to make their learning
environments more effective. Does the classroom inspire learning? Is it overcrowded?
Noisy? Does the classroom have natural daylight? What obstacles prevent schools from
upgrading classrooms or building additional classroom space? Show us how your design
would address the obstacles to providing inspiring learning spaces in your school.
You may partner with any primary or secondary school. (Please note: Classroom designs
for universities and other training academies are not eligible to win.) The school you
choose to partner with can be a local school or one in another region or country. Student
participation is strongly encouraged and will be considered by the jury. The competition
focuses on the design of a single, replicable adaptable classroom. Design teams are not
asked to submit designs for an entire school.
We've created teacher resources, including a design curriculum and web casts to help you
engage and inspire students. Who knows, one of the students you work with could be the
next Calatrava. And, you could be the one who inspired them to become a design
professional.
Challenge Resources
Your Classroom Brief
Urban Classroom Upgrade Brief
Rural Classroom Addition
Modular Classroom Design Brief
Challenge FAQ
Online Curriculum for Teachers
Online Webcast for Students
Building Standards
Indoor Air Quality
Lighting
Information Technology
Energy Efficiency
Facility and Student Performance
Curriculum
Green Building
Architecture as Learning
Tool
Adaptive Reuse
Design for Indigenous
Communities
International Design
US School Building
Guidelines
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