Shopfront Schools

Towns · Building

Context Children's Home86 · Network of Learning18

Problem

Large school buildings often sit apart from real life, behind fences and on their own separate grounds. Children and teenagers end up learning detached from the very world they are meant to be prepared for.

Solution

Set small schools into ordinary shopfronts along the street, so that learning stays directly bound to the life and work around it, instead of being walled off behind institutional gates.

Usage Pedestrian Street100 · Self-Governing Workshops and Offices80 · Accessible Green60 · Building Complex95 · Opening to the Street165