BOSCH & FJORD'S 21ST CENTURY SCHOOL ON THE CUTTING EDGE OF LEARNING AND CHILDREN'S SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Bosch & Fjord create a school that integrates cutting-edge thinking about how kids learn, and how teachers want to teach.

We are instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many keys that are struck by the nature that surrounds us and that often strike themselves. -- Denis Diderot

If form followed function in today’s schools, then there would be no need to change the current learning environment.

The current model that pervades today’s school design is based on an outdated 19th-century model -- what academics call age-specific grouping, contain and control, didactic instruction, prescribed knowledge, uniformed progression, fixed schedules, and standardized assessment through memorization. In walking into many of today’s schools, you are instantly transported to the familiar experience of the double-loaded corridor, self-contained boxes with minimal daylight, and giant, impersonal lecture halls.

Artists and architects Bosch & Fjord rejected this Victorian thinking in their design of Ordrup School. In their design for the school, Bosch & Fjord translate, in physical terms, how today’s children want to learn and how today’s teachers want to teach. The design team literally moved into the school and took the time to observe, record and analyze the dynamic human interactions and complex relationships of learning.

Inventing a new language to describe this new pattern of learning, Bosh and Fjord galvanized their design concept around three central themes: “peace and absorption,” “discussion and cooperation,” and “security and presence.” With these three central modes of learning, a diversity of education spaces for children unfolded—colorful “hot pods” for group discussion, organically shaped tables for group work and creative play, personalized learning “booths” for reflective work, and playful circular tubes for reading and contemplation. Bosh & Fjord recognized that we all learn very differently, and they transformed Ordrup School based on this conviction. The form of Ordrup School, albeit playful and beautiful, now follows the function.

COMMENTARY:  At Ordrup School in Gentofte, Denmark, Bosch & Fjord has rejected the traditional design of school interiors and instead created varied rooms with space for differentiated teaching and creative thinking. Based on the conviction that all people are different and have different ways of thinking and learning, Bosch & Fjord has created an all-encompassing and challenging design at Ordrup School. The design is based on three key concepts: 'peace & absorption', 'discussion & cooperation' and 'security & presence'. By sepa-rating the activities and creating varied rooms, Bosch & Fjord has created a space for diversity in both teaching and play where the learning situation can be optimised. 

I just love the Danish design style.  Very modern, sleek and high-tech.  The Danes are definitely on the leading edge when it comes to design of buildings, interiors and consumer products.  I was reviewing Bosch & Fjord's many architectural building and interior designs and I am very impressed.   The Ordrup School reflects this style throughout, and is definitely one cool kids school.  I like their three key design concepts.  The school is an environment not only for teaching, but a great model for social development and interaction.  You can just see that the kids love their school too.

Courtesy of an article dated November 23, 2010 appearing in Fast Company Design

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