UNSCHOOL COPENHAGEN

School for the future

The design seeks the creation of a ‘school for the future’ (age group 5-12) that completely negates the regularized building typology of existing ones. The competition seeks to radicalize the school system through architecture not only in terms of improving the quality of study
environment but revamping the system and breaking all the physical and metaphorical class divisions into an entirely new school system. The participants should devise new pedagogical systems that would negate the generic teaching strategies and give more importance to personal
interests and aspirations of the students. The competition seeks ideas from participants to create a fun environment for a middle school that understands the individual needs of each child yet being very collaborative in nature.
Architecture affects our intellect and emotions, influences our performance and motivates achievement — mostly on a subliminal basis. The competition seeks to create an intergenerational learning space with a very informal and fun appeal to it. The idea of the competition is to break away from a rigid, static and boring built environment of a school and move towards versatile and flexible learning spaces that allow their reuse for any possible purpose. All the spaces should provide a different experience to the students in terms of their built quality, aesthetics, color, form and overall spatiality. Incorporate environment and landscape in a school block in a more ‘meaningful’ and dynamic fashion.