The planning of an educational building is the main topic of the design exercise in the second semester. Students are asked to design a kindergarten, elementary school or secondary school based on the principle of an educational cluster. An educational cluster should consist of five educational rooms, one outside and four inside the building, for traditional teaching and a large multifunctional room for group work and leisure. It should be possible to separate or connect the rooms as required. Due to the special spatial structure of the educational buildings the students have to question their own over a long period learned spatial concepts. In this design exercise, the students can draw on their many years of experience with educational spaces, for better or for worse. Because of their proximity to the topic, they can be seen as experts in this field and they can turn recent negative experiences into positive ones and simply copy positive experiences.
The planning of an educational building is the main topic of the design exercise in the second semester. Students are asked to design a kindergarten, elementary school or secondary school based on the principle of an educational cluster. An educational cluster should consist of five educational rooms, one outside and four inside the building, for traditional teaching and a large multifunctional room for group work and leisure. It should be possible to separate or connect the rooms as required. Due to the special spatial structure of the educational buildings the students have to question their own over a long period learned spatial concepts. In this design exercise, the students can draw on their many years of experience with educational spaces, for better or for worse. Because of their proximity to the topic, they can be seen as experts in this field and they can turn recent negative experiences into positive ones and simply copy positive experiences.