Introduction
Traditional Korean architecture is marked by openness and privacy: a delicate balance of bringing the landscape inside while providing separation. The New High School for Seoul Foreign School (SFS) follows in this tradition to support learning both inside and outside the classroom.
Reason to Be Selected
To maximize daylight, solar analyses were conducted to help design an optimal configuration of exterior sunshades to invite natural light into the classrooms without excessive glare.
Highlights:
The walls in the classroom were designed to be used as both writable and projectable surfaces, further increasing flexibility.Details
First, the classroom‚ the fundamental building block of the school was rigorously studied and refined in collaboration with teachers and administration until an ideal size and proportion were developed that was flexible enough to support nearly every desired teaching style and desk configuration imaginable.
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The resulting solar shades on the facades provide both necessary screening and access to light and views. SFS aims to provide its high school students with an environment that is a hybrid college/high school experience.
The new building is designed to provide the types of "Third Spaces" for learning and collaboration, similar to what one would find on a university campus. The building is organized into two wings of efficiently arranged classrooms and labs. Connecting the wings is a central hub on every floor comprised of collaborative learning zones that provide opportunities for learning and instruction to take place outside the classrooms, and faculty workspaces immediately adjacent to the collaborative zones that foster new opportunities for student-teacher interactions.
Conclusions
Meanwhile, every effort has been made to take advantage of one of the School's cherished assets‚ its incomparable site‚ by drawing the landscape into the building through the use of natural materials and views, and by drawing the classroom into the landscape through multiple outdoor learning spaces.
FULL STORY:
| Lat: | 37.33 |
| Lng: | 126.58 |
| Type: | |
| Region: | Asia |
| Scale: | Building |
| Field: | Civilian |
| City: | Seoul |