SCHOOLS FOR THE FUTURE: DESIGN PROPOSALS FROM ARCHITECTURAL PSYCHOLOGY

SCHOOLS FOR THE FUTURE: DESIGN PROPOSALS FROM ARCHITECTURAL PSYCHOLOGY.

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Architecture and its relationship to its users have a significant influence on life and activities within the built environment. This poses a particular challenge with regard to public buildings such as schools, which have to accommodate the needs of many different people in order to provide them with the best possible environment to support their performance. The give-and-take relationship between architecture and its users (students, teachers, parents, and the community at large) is emphasized from the point of view of architectural psychology and emerging considerations such as information technology.The 'schools for the future' vision is to create spaces that people are pleased to return to, time and again, and that allow options for future modification in line with changing user requirements. Criteria for the assessment of schools are derived from a dual approach. The first is the call for a common language to be used by designers and educators, exemplified by a number of patterns that have been found to be salient in school design. Their common underlying premise is that learning environments should be learner-centered, appropriate to age and developmental stage, safe, comfortable, accessible, flexible, and equitable, in addition to being cost effective

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