School of Architecture
Open International Design Competition
/ Honorable Mention Award
The School of Transformation – From Wasteland to Oasis
The purpose of most architectural schools, generally speaking, is to teach people skills on how to fix problems and realize their own utopia.
Therefore, if the school of architecture provides educational training on reshaping our environment, it will eventually transform urban spaces abandoned or ignored by modern societies.
In this case, the school will no longer be a permanent campus situated at the designated location but a portable device with capabilities of improving and redeveloping mis-planned properties.
In addition, the school programs also motivate students to construct their school with their own designs and researches. After the property is completely built, the buildings will no longer serve for academic purposes, but will become the facilities of the local communities, meeting the standard of the adaptation required.
Then, the school will move to another wasteland and continue with the same process of transformation.
The school will be located at any property that is underdeveloped or abandoned by modern society.
Students will learn the knowledge of architectural design, urban planning, and landscape design to transform the property and prepare to build their own campus.
With basic knowledge of architectural design, students now can test their ideas and try to realize them.
Buildings of the campus are built by the ideas of the students and their research from the lab.
After the school was built, students will start to learn how to adapt the campus into different functions that connect the local community.
After the study of adaptation, the campus will become a local facility serving all kinds of social functions for the community, and the school program will move to another property to transform.
Project Info
name: School of Architecture - Open International Design Competition
date: 2018
issuer: archdux
award: Honorable Mention
participants: individual
publication: www.e-architect.co.uk, www.wettbewerbe
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