{"id":30668,"date":"2025-05-26T12:58:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T10:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xbrick.eu\/story\/vision-for-primary-schools-how-tomorrows-learning-is-taking-shape"},"modified":"2025-06-02T09:21:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T07:21:03","slug":"vision-for-primary-schools-how-tomorrows-learning-is-taking-shape","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/www.xbrick.eu\/en\/story\/vision-for-primary-schools-how-tomorrows-learning-is-taking-shape","title":{"rendered":"Vision for primary schools: How tomorrow’s learning is taking shape"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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On behalf of the Opfikon school authorities, students of interior design and scenography at the HGK Basel, under the direction of Prof Andreas Wenger, designed the interior concept for the new \u2018Bubenholz Cluster School\u2019 building. The aim was to find answers to the central question: What will the school of tomorrow look like? wd3 supported the project with several test samples of our flexible, multifunctional Xbrick\u00ae.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Starting point and pedagogical visions for new school building<\/h2>\n

At the end of 2023, students Meta R\u00fcegg, Silvan Seifert and Niklaus Oppliger were given the task of \u2018combining the knowledge from our interior design and scenography studies with practice\u2019 and translating the pedagogical guiding principles of the city of Opfikon into spatial terms. Under the title \u2018Vision Schule Bubenholz 2029\u2019, the teaching staff formulated a guideline that moves away from a rigid, teacher-centred timetable towards project-oriented, student-centred learning – mixed-age, interdisciplinary and in changing group constellations.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Ein Unterrichts-Cluster beinhaltet bei sechs architektonisch definierte R\u00e4um<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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“The change from teacher-centred teaching to student-centred learning is taken into account. Interdisciplinary, project-orientated teaching replaces the traditional timetable.”<\/p>\n

Four learning groups of twelve to fourteen children each share a cluster of around 345 m\u00b2. The task: to create spaces that promote cooperative work as well as individual islands of retreat.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Das Lernen, Arbeiten, Leben und Geniessen im Cluster sind vielf\u00e4ltiger als in herk\u00f6mmlichen Schulr\u00e4umen.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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The design process: formulating needs with a participatory approach<\/h2>\n

In an interdisciplinary dialogue with teachers, school management and other experts, the students developed concepts for the various usage requirements. Ideas were compared directly with practice in workshop formats and prototypes were tested individually with school classes. This resulted in a common language for spatial qualities such as group work, places of retreat and project-based learning – always in dialogue with those who will later use the space on a daily basis.<\/p>\n

\u2018Together with the future users, the Opfikon school management and other everyday experts, we channelled our energy into researching future learning landscapes.\u2019 It was and is immensely important to the students to \u2018put people at the centre\u2019 and thus \u2018enable enjoyable learning\u2019.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Room concept and equipment for student-centred learning<\/h2>\n

At the centre of each cluster is the central zone (marketplace) as a lively heart, where the cloakroom is also located. Class activities, free play and informal meetings all take place here. Four separable group rooms, each with an area of 17.5 m2, are arranged around the marketplace.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Acoustic curtains, lightweight partition walls and the lightweight Xbrick make it possible to quickly reconfigure the areas as required.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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