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No. 2008/15 | 01 Oct 2008 |
Dalry Primary – An Innovative Scottish Case Study
In presenting this case study of an innovative school building in Scotland, the author describes its unique design features, conveys the viewpoints of the users, client and design team, and reveals the lessons learned. Dalry Primary, North Ayrshire... |
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No. 2008/14 | 01 Oct 2008 |
In Slovenia, Šoštanj Primary School Collaborates with Its Community
Šoštanj Primary School offers a learning process which can enrich traditional forms of schooling. It demonstrates how a school, including its infrastructure, can influence family life and the environment, creating new social patterns and a local... |
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No. 2008/13 | 01 Oct 2008 |
A Second Chance School in Hungary
Hungary’s Belvárosi Tanoda Secondary School offers an informal, flexible environment and alternative teaching methods for students who have had problems in other schools. The Belvárosi Tanoda (which translates as downtown school) is a second chance... |
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No. 2008/12 | 01 Oct 2008 |
Open Plan Schools in Portugal
Open plan schools have been largely contested in Portugal; many teachers, administrators and even parents consider this model of schooling inappropriate and therefore a failure. Recently however the Escola da Ponte, one of the open plan schools that... |
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No. 2008/11 | 01 Oct 2008 |
OECD Work on Future Educational Environments
Designing school buildings to respond to change is not a new idea. But perhaps what is different today is the kind and degree of change which we have to anticipate. The OECD is carrying out projects that can help in the planning and design of future... |
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No. 2008/10 | 01 Jun 2008 |
Sustainable Education Campus in Spain
The sustainable education campus project for San Agustín de Guadalix is based on an innovative concept of urbanism and architecture. The campus design and landscape aim to support training and exemplify sustainability. |
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No. 2008/09 | 01 Jun 2008 |
Primary School Architecture in Portugal
Describing primary schools in a small city in Portugal is an opportunity for an overall look at the evolution of schools in general as special public buildings. A look at four of the six primary schools in the city of Caldas da Rainha shows how these... |
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No. 2008/08 | 01 Jun 2008 |
A Flexible School for Early Childhood Education in Italy
The design of this flexible school for early childhood education in Milan, Italy, takes into account children’s development and the different ways they experience space according to their age. The facilities will include not only a nursery school and... |
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No. 2008/07 | 01 Jun 2008 |
Special Primary School Complex in the United Kingdom
Booker Park School is a new complex for pre-primary children and primary pupils with a range of behavioural and learning difficulties. To respond to the pupils’ varied needs, the school facilities offer a high degree of flexibility and a quality... |
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No. 2008/06 | 01 Feb 2008 |
Evaluating School Facilities in Brazil
Brazil’s São Paulo Metropolitan Region is conducting a performance evaluation pilot study at three schools serving disadvantaged populations. The objective is first to test methods which can facilitate Post Occupancy Evaluations (POEs) and then to... |
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No. 2008/05 | 01 Feb 2008 |
Implications of Curriculum Reform for School Buildings in Scotland
Scotland’s Building Excellence programme is exploring the implications of curriculum reform for school building design. It includes events which bring together teachers, designers, school managers and local authorities. |
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No. 2008/04 | 01 Feb 2008 |
US Academic Libraries
In 2007, the author examined existing academic libraries in the United States to determine best practices for the design, implementation and service of learning commons facilities. A primary objective of this study was to discover how to create a... |
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No. 2008/03 | 01 Feb 2008 |
Changing School Architecture in Zurich
Changes in the way education is delivered has contributed to the evolution of school architecture in Zurich, Switzerland. The City of Zurich has revised its guidelines for designing school buildings, both new and old. Adapting older buildings to... |
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No. 2008/02 | 01 Feb 2008 |
New Zealand: Modernising Schools in a Decentralised Environment
The government of New Zealand delegates property expenditure decisions to each individual school. Such a decentralised environment creates a challenge for school boards and principals to obtain advice on the complex issues around designing schools.... |
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No. 2008/01 | 01 Feb 2008 |
Modernising Portugal's Secondary Schools
In March 2007, the Portuguese government announced an ambitious plan to modernise secondary schools by improving the quality and usefulness of its teaching and learning facilities, while putting schools back into the centre of the community of which... |
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No. 2007/12 | 01 Sept 2007 |
Green Buildings in Use
This article briefly describes users’ experiences of two “green” education buildings. It goes on to conclude that stakeholders’ negotiation of building performance is necessary to minimise environmental impact, just as it is necessary to achieve... |
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No. 2007/11 | 01 Sept 2007 |
Sustainability Actions in Australia
Presented here are Australian case studies of educational buildings with environmentally sustainable designs – an upper secondary school complex and a university learning centre – and sustainability initiatives by a private developer working in... |
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No. 2007/10 | 01 Sept 2007 |
Using Minimum Energy in Ireland's Schools
This article explains how Ireland has incorporated low energy design into primary and post-primary schools and gives an overview of projects that have helped inform this approach. |
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No. 2007/09 | 01 Sept 2007 |
School Buildings in Greece
Greece’s School Buildings Organisation (SBO) is developing bioclimatic pilot schemes which are yielding positive results. Bioclimatic action has been one of the principal priorities of Greek school infrastructure planning since 2004. Among the... |
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No. 2007/08 | 01 Sept 2007 |
Japan's Eco-school Programme
Since 1997 several ministries in Japan have collaborated on an eco-school programme, which applies to both newly constructed and renovated school buildings, in an effort to make its schools more environmentally friendly. |
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Dalry Primary – An Innovative Scottish Case Study
Malcolm Summers
01 Oct 2008
In presenting this case study of an innovative school building in Scotland, the author describes its unique design features, conveys the viewpoints of the users, client and design team, and reveals the lessons learned. Dalry Primary, North Ayrshire...
In Slovenia, Šoštanj Primary School Collaborates with Its Community
Emmanuel Cercek
01 Oct 2008
Šoštanj Primary School offers a learning process which can enrich traditional forms of schooling. It demonstrates how a school, including its infrastructure, can influence family life and the environment, creating new social patterns and a local...
A Second Chance School in Hungary
László Limbacher
01 Oct 2008
Hungary’s Belvárosi Tanoda Secondary School offers an informal, flexible environment and alternative teaching methods for students who have had problems in other schools. The Belvárosi Tanoda (which translates as downtown school) is a second chance...
Open Plan Schools in Portugal
Miguel Martinho and José M. R. Freire da Silva
01 Oct 2008
Open plan schools have been largely contested in Portugal; many teachers, administrators and even parents consider this model of schooling inappropriate and therefore a failure. Recently however the Escola da Ponte, one of the open plan schools that...
OECD Work on Future Educational Environments
Henno Theisens, Francisco Benavides and Hanna Dumont
01 Oct 2008
Designing school buildings to respond to change is not a new idea. But perhaps what is different today is the kind and degree of change which we have to anticipate. The OECD is carrying out projects that can help in the planning and design of future...
Sustainable Education Campus in Spain
Pablo Campos Calvo-Sotelo
01 Jun 2008
The sustainable education campus project for San Agustín de Guadalix is based on an innovative concept of urbanism and architecture. The campus design and landscape aim to support training and exemplify sustainability.
Primary School Architecture in Portugal
José M. R. Freire da Silva
01 Jun 2008
Describing primary schools in a small city in Portugal is an opportunity for an overall look at the evolution of schools in general as special public buildings. A look at four of the six primary schools in the city of Caldas da Rainha shows how these...
A Flexible School for Early Childhood Education in Italy
Giorgio Ponti
01 Jun 2008
The design of this flexible school for early childhood education in Milan, Italy, takes into account children’s development and the different ways they experience space according to their age. The facilities will include not only a nursery school and...
Special Primary School Complex in the United Kingdom
Mark Robinson
01 Jun 2008
Booker Park School is a new complex for pre-primary children and primary pupils with a range of behavioural and learning difficulties. To respond to the pupils’ varied needs, the school facilities offer a high degree of flexibility and a quality...
Evaluating School Facilities in Brazil
Sheila Walbe Ornstein and Nanci Saraiva Moreira
01 Feb 2008
Brazil’s São Paulo Metropolitan Region is conducting a performance evaluation pilot study at three schools serving disadvantaged populations. The objective is first to test methods which can facilitate Post Occupancy Evaluations (POEs) and then to...
Implications of Curriculum Reform for School Buildings in Scotland
W. Scott-Watson
01 Feb 2008
Scotland’s Building Excellence programme is exploring the implications of curriculum reform for school building design. It includes events which bring together teachers, designers, school managers and local authorities.
US Academic Libraries
Susan McMullen
01 Feb 2008
In 2007, the author examined existing academic libraries in the United States to determine best practices for the design, implementation and service of learning commons facilities. A primary objective of this study was to discover how to create a...
Changing School Architecture in Zurich
Mark Ziegler and Daniel Kurz
01 Feb 2008
Changes in the way education is delivered has contributed to the evolution of school architecture in Zurich, Switzerland. The City of Zurich has revised its guidelines for designing school buildings, both new and old. Adapting older buildings to...
New Zealand: Modernising Schools in a Decentralised Environment
Bruce Sheerin
01 Feb 2008
The government of New Zealand delegates property expenditure decisions to each individual school. Such a decentralised environment creates a challenge for school boards and principals to obtain advice on the complex issues around designing schools....
Modernising Portugal's Secondary Schools
Teresa V. Heitor
01 Feb 2008
In March 2007, the Portuguese government announced an ambitious plan to modernise secondary schools by improving the quality and usefulness of its teaching and learning facilities, while putting schools back into the centre of the community of which...
Green Buildings in Use
Chris Watson
01 Sept 2007
This article briefly describes users’ experiences of two “green” education buildings. It goes on to conclude that stakeholders’ negotiation of building performance is necessary to minimise environmental impact, just as it is necessary to achieve...
Sustainability Actions in Australia
Jenni Webster, Leigh Robinson, Kelvin Trimper and Stan Salagaras
01 Sept 2007
Presented here are Australian case studies of educational buildings with environmentally sustainable designs – an upper secondary school complex and a university learning centre – and sustainability initiatives by a private developer working in...
Using Minimum Energy in Ireland's Schools
John Dolan
01 Sept 2007
This article explains how Ireland has incorporated low energy design into primary and post-primary schools and gives an overview of projects that have helped inform this approach.
School Buildings in Greece
Panagiotis Al. Patargias, Kalianou Angela, George Galanis, Marina Vassilopoulou, Maria Drosou and Christos Protogeropoulos
01 Sept 2007
Greece’s School Buildings Organisation (SBO) is developing bioclimatic pilot schemes which are yielding positive results. Bioclimatic action has been one of the principal priorities of Greek school infrastructure planning since 2004. Among the...
Japan's Eco-school Programme
Masayuki Mori
01 Sept 2007
Since 1997 several ministries in Japan have collaborated on an eco-school programme, which applies to both newly constructed and renovated school buildings, in an effort to make its schools more environmentally friendly.