Architektur Sommer: Wie Bedürfnisse Räume prägen: Vielfalt im Bildungsbau

Hardly anywhere else do schools reflect our society so clearly and at the same time have such an active impact on it. The lecture makes it clear why diverse planning teams are so important in educational construction in order to create learning environments that take into account different realities of life and take the needs of all users seriously. How can schools become places that do more than just teach? Spaces in which community grows, children can develop, find orientation and protection and where there is also room for play, peace and quiet and retreat. The Hamburg-based firm abj Architekt:innen has been planning site-specific, meaningful architecture with a focus on education, housing and special buildings since 1989. Especially in school construction, from elementary school to secondary schools and vocational schools, the team is primarily concerned with one key question: how can architecture meet the different requirements of children, young people and adults, not only practically, but also with a clear attitude. In their presentation, architects Sarah Schäper and Nina Svensson show how schools can be understood as an expression of social diversity and designed accordingly. There is hardly any other place where cultural, gender, religious and social differences come together in such a concentrated way. A central theme here is participation, especially the participation of pupils, whose perspectives are still too rarely included, even though they spend a large part of their everyday life at school.