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The Mouriz School is too cool for school. By day, its students frolcik and play outside its random lines and dark wood veneer. By night, however, the entire scene becomes one from a Pixar short. Fascinating stuff.
Back in the mid- to late-90s, I went to school in a boring, gray concrete block. The education was fine but the aesthetics were pure uninspirational 70s. This school, in Mouriz, Portugal, is none of those things:
This is a two-story school center, including a kindergarten and an elementary school located in Mouriz, Paredes, Portugal. It was conceived to comply with a functional program based on the needs of a fifteen classroom school center: managing flows and creating different levels of use due to different levels of autonomy within the school center – kindergarten and elementary school; common areas and sports area; linking the dynamics of each space; ranking uses and users; sharing pathways and functions.
Oh how jealous I am of today’s students. Learning actively by book (or iPad?) and passively by design, subconsciously. [Arch Daily]
WOW, working there must be amazing, I have had to work in buildings poured out of concrete for years.
http://wearemoviegeeks.com/wp-content/sully-560×310.jpg
welcome to class kids!
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welcome to class kids!
check out that fail
Just a pity our current government states that the quality of education has nothing to do with the environment they work in…… Quality designs like this are becoming harder and harder to procure.
My only negative on this building is – Where are the links to a landscape that reflects the quality of the building?
Nope it sucks. Schools need to be about getting kids to learn how to communicate. Intricate designs don’t really offer much to the childhood experience.