''Looking at a pre-school design in Stockholm which is designed by an architect, Rosan Bosch, what could be seen is how she had looked into children psychology which is able to help in design a suitable spatial configuration for children. What she had did was before the project began, she carried out interviews with children from different schools to gain a better understanding of what would motivate them to learn more effectively in a school environment. First of all, the children’s learning behaviour was observed, then a group was encouraged to imagine a course of their typical day – in a form of a film script – describing daily activities and how they would like to feel according to what is happening. Some basic questions were discussed around what kind of design would support such a timeline of the day, using various methods to aid the conversation such as pictures, slideshows and movie clips through the on-going process. From that she had designed a new school system that fosters children's ''curiosity and creativity'', A Telefonplan School. Her intention for designing the school was to create threw out the "old-school" thinking of straight desks in a line in a four-walled classroom so children could work independently in opened-spaces while lounging, or go to "the village" to work on group-projects.''(Parnell R., 2014)
When think about a school without walls, we will concerned about the noises in the space where it will make people couldn't concentrate on their studies. As a designer, we need to plan very carefully in a educational environment where you make a lot of noise, where you are quite. But what the architect think was it is an environment where you navigate on based on your need. There will be a place that you could make a lot of noises but of course there are places that would be very quite because they indicate the design indicates the way you are behaving.
When think about a school without walls, we will concerned about the noises in the space where it will make people couldn't concentrate on their studies. As a designer, we need to plan very carefully in a educational environment where you make a lot of noise, where you are quite. But what the architect think was it is an environment where you navigate on based on your need. There will be a place that you could make a lot of noises but of course there are places that would be very quite because they indicate the design indicates the way you are behaving.
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It is always a challenge on doing school without classroom, but with a lot of space. How they able to navigate the kids which class to go. The architect did concerned about this issues where she said : '' If you can't tell the kids that they need to be in Room 110 at 12 o'clock , you have to make somethings identity marker. For example, by looking to one of the pictures above where a tree could be a identity marker. So they just need to tell the kids that they have class under the tree.
Section view ( Picture taken from : http://openbuildings.com/buildings/vittra-telefonplan-school-profile-43177# )
By looking at her design, I found that she really concerned about the children psychology by seeing the school spaces as the most important tools for learning and education development and then she try to create different kind of space so that the children have more flexible ways and free-flow spatial divisions to study in their own creativity and creating different types of learning scenarios. For her, design could be many things. When you design an environment, it can change the way of thinking, functioning, learning, acting and reacting.
Designing for a better world starts at school: Rosan Bosch (TEDx Talks . 15:06 . Filmed 2013)
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