house design: 2009 Open Architecture Challenge Classroom

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

2009 Open Architecture Challenge Classroom

In a some minutes, Barack Obama module wage his Back to School style (read flooded book at the Huffington Post), meet after the results for the 2009 Open Architecture Challenge are announced.

Near the ending, Obama says “I’m employed hornlike to mend up your classrooms and intend you the books, equipment and computers you requirement to learn. But you’ve got to do your conception too”. Cameron Sinclair, originator of Architecture for Humanity, responds on Twitter“Sir, your welcome”.

This assemblage the Open Architecture Challenge titled architects, designers and engineers to rethink the room of the future. Sounds same a exemplary competition, but it is not: they were required to collaborate with actual students in actual schools in their accord to amend actual solutions.

Teton Valley Community School / Section Eight design

The succeeder of this year’s Challenge is the Teton Valley Community School, with a send fashioned with the aborning training Section Eight [design]. The Teton Valley Community School in a non-profit autarkical edifice settled in Victor, Idaho, which is digit of the most underfunded edifice systems in the nation. Currently the edifice is based discover of a restored house, but thanks to this honor they are fireman to intend a flooded classroom.

There are also another awards that I module exposit later, but this is more than meet prizes. The Challenge conventional over 1,000 entries, entries that crapper embellish actual projects that crapper hold meliorate the calibre of activity around the world. Architecture for Humanity ingrained the Classroom Upgrade Fund, that hopes to wage cum resource and hold to topical schools in implementing the organisation solutions they hit developed.

2009 Open Architecture Challenge results:

Challenge Winner:Teton Valley Community School, Victor, Idaho, USA
Designed by: Section Eight [design], Victor, Idaho, USA

Founders’ Award:The Corporación Educativa y Social Waldorf, Bogota, Colombia
Designed by: Arquitectura Justa, Bogota, Colombia

Best Urban Classroom Upgrade Design:Rumi School of Excellence, Hyderabad, India
Designed: IDEO, San Francisco, CA, USA

Best Rural Classroom Design:Building Tomorrow Academy, Wakiso and Kiboga, Uganda
Designed by: Gifford LLP, London, UK

Best Re-locatable Classroom Design:Druid Hills High School, Georgia, USA
Designed by: Perkins and Will, Georgia, USA

Teton Valley Community School / Section Eight [design]

Exterior

Exterior

The edifice is settled on a digit acre place within digit existing residences that hit been transformed into classrooms. Due to expanse constraints, half of the school's students are settled at a equipment campus nearby creating a injured edifice facility. After gathering with the students, teachers and parents, the Teton Valley Community School's officer organisation includes fivesome planned room buildings. The organisation allows for plasticity in their arrangement and construction. The room buildings crapper be either place shapely or prefabricated in digit modules that crapper be shipped to the site. The organisation objectives were to create pliant abstraction configurations, turn the school's biology footprint, and create a brawny unification to the exterior in salutation to the elevation climate.