‘EDUCATION CENTER_S2’
Type: School renovation
Area: 520 sq.m.
Project: 2023
The project involves renovating a floor of a municipal school in the town of Shumen, with a focus on agriculture and food technology. The building is of a typical socialist-era style, reflective of the period when it was constructed. The comprehensive use of the educational rooms contrasts with their original layout and design.
‘EDUCATION CENTER_S2’
Type: School renovation
Area: 520 sq.m.
Project: 2023
The project involves renovating a floor of a municipal school in the town of Shumen, with a focus on agriculture and food technology. The building is of a typical socialist-era style, reflective of the period when it was constructed. The comprehensive use of the educational rooms contrasts with their original layout and design.
The program encompasses five classrooms with a southern exposure on a single floor, connected by a corridor running along the entire length of the northern facade. The themes of the classrooms include agroecology, food technology, travel, tourism, and natural sciences.
A color accent in the rooms is integrated by emphasizing horizontal structural elements in a pink hue. LED lighting is installed in a suspended structure beneath them, providing indirect illumination. In combination with this, a series of pre-configured desk lamps are included as part of the system.
The traditional podium barriers in the chalkboard area have been removed to enhance flexibility and allow for reconfiguration. The original hardwood parquet flooring has been preserved in all classrooms, along with the mosaic and authentic murals in the corridor.
With our proposal, the aim was to introduce a range of expressive elements (modular solutions) that the school administration can individually organize based on the needs of each activity.
Each element has uniform dimensions, and along the shorter side of each room, four sequentially ordered modular items can fit. The designs offer space for individual work, soft seating areas, storage, movable whiteboards, and more. There are also specialized modules designed for the needs of the laboratories.
For the agroecology classroom, modules with mobile garden units on wheels are planned. The planters have plexiglass fronts to observe soil development. They are the size of typical desks, allowing them to be grouped together for practical work in class.
Room 35 has a fixed configuration with a central laboratory table. All students sit around the work surface at a height of 90cm, while the teacher’s area is on a podium, with their workspace elevated in the central axis of the table.
