Open interior 'Learning Landscape'

C. F. Møller Architects

C. F. Møller Architects

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Instead of corridors, all circulation is open balconies surrounding two spaces: An assembly hall, with canteen, relaxation areas, performance hall and knowledge centre, and a gymnasium/multi-purpose hall, both spanned by a unifying sloping roof.
In the open ‘Learning Landscape' structure not only classrooms, but the entire school, provides an acoustically perfected teaching environment for individual work, group work and plenary sessions. This openness and organisation accommodates modern, personalized and democratic teaching in a varied educational environment.


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The AP Møller School, a Danish school for 625 students in Germany, consists of a co-educational school and a secondary school section. The combination of Danish school curriculum and German legislative context meant that the client's brief called for a hybrid school typology uniting the better of these two worlds. The Danish upper secondary school reform altered the character of key educational principles; classroom periods, for example, were replaced by the broader concept of 'teaching time', in order to stimulate co-operation between the subjects and accommodate new, more flexible working methods.


The physical environment should offer new interdisciplinary possibilities and environments, and these requirements have found expression in a new school architecture with open spatial sequences, transparent teaching areas and common, unbounded functions such as 'interaction spaces' in central locations. The widespread use of information technology, via wireless networks, further reinforces the trend.


The school is a donation by The A. P. Møller and Chastine Mc-Kinney Møller Foundation, to the Danish School Association of Southern Schleswig.


Credits:
Images by Poul Ib Henriksen
: The A. P. Møller School | Auf der Freiheit, Schleswig, Germany
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