As part of the course work, the 4th year students of the PROM department were asked to prepare a project on the topic “School”, and it was about a special educational institution - such as a school for children with disabilities, an educational colony and a boarding school for orphans. This is not an easy task, since students had to take into account the specific features of such institutions, for example, the guarded perimeter and the strict division of adolescents into groups in educational colonies. Therefore, the students had to comprehend the special regime and way of life inside the colony in order to correctly design its training and production center. The boarding school for orphans has no less complex specifics. Here it was necessary to provide not only a school, but also living areas. A difficult test for novice architects was the task of designing a school for disabled children. The students had to study in detail the entire list of strict communication, social and sanitary requirements.
Real sites in Moscow and the near Moscow region were chosen as design sites: abandoned pioneer camps, educational colonies in need of reconstruction, or now not functioning schools and boarding schools.
One of the leaders of the group, Vsevolod Medvedev, said that the composition of the project was deliberately expanded in comparison with the basic task of the institute. In addition to drawings, for the first time, students were offered to make a presentation video, fully demonstrating the features of the project. But perhaps the most difficult task was to understand, feel and try to change for the better the attitude of society towards young orphans, disabled people and offenders.
Usually, based on the results of project defense, teachers held an internal competition, awarding prizes for the best concepts and rewarding their authors with memorable gifts. This time it was decided to do a little differently: five equally worthy works were awarded at once, which we present in our publication.
Polina Yavna. "Nest for orphans"
Boarding school in Moscow on Nizhnie Mnevniki street
The author of the project aims to create an ideal environment for children deprived of parental love. As a solution, a vivid architectural image is proposed, very similar to a bird's nest - warm, cozy and protected from all factors of external aggression. The association with the nest is carried throughout the entire project. The building is elliptical in plan. The first floor serves as a kind of framework, above which the walls of the school rise in a circle, leaving a large courtyard free on the exploited and greened roof of the first floor. Here, in the courtyard, the volume of the gym and the pool is taken out - round and smooth as an egg. The spiral facades resemble intertwined rods. The resemblance to the nest is also supported by the decision to raise the main body of the building, its third and fourth floors, on numerous thin metal supports and five wide "legs" that accommodate the staircase and elevator blocks. As a result, the "nest" seems to hang in the air over a green hill, where the hill is the first floor of the school, hidden behind a green facade.
The functional composition of the building includes everything you need to ensure a comfortable life and successful educational activities - there are spacious classrooms and recreation with overhead lights, and a separate element of the elementary school, and a spacious dining room, and a recreation space with a view of the city, and a cozy living area. An open amphitheater has been created in the courtyard, playgrounds and sports grounds are provided. There is a pier on the embankment of the Moskva River.
Yana Ostapchuk. "Educational center"
Correctional and prophylactic institution in Moscow on Bolshaya Pereyaslavskaya street
The institution is designed to work with children and adolescents with deviant behavior. The peculiarity of this educational center is that it is not just a school, but also a place of permanent residence and rehabilitation of children.
The complex, consisting of several buildings connected to each other, occupies a sufficiently large area that allows you to place all the necessary functions there. Each of the buildings has its own purpose. So, the longest block, stretching along the street, is set aside for classrooms, recreation, club rooms. The third floor is fully occupied by students' living quarters and is connected to the adjacent medical and rehabilitation building by a passageway. Another volume is intended for classes in initial vocational training and additional education.
The street facades of the center are finished with an openwork lattice structure, whose blurred pattern resembles zebra stripes. It is this complex pattern that encircles the complex that forms its image, which, according to the author, should personify the process of changes, development and re-education of students.
Anna Tuzova. "Boarding school for orphans"
Boarding school in Moscow, Metrogorodok, Open highway
The boarding school is located on the territory of the former children's boarding school No. 87, and now - the neuropsychiatric sanatorium No. 44. The site is adjacent to the Losiny Ostrov National Park, a residential area and forest parks. It was decided to include the existing buildings of the boarding school in the new complex and to restore it. Two more blocks are supposed to be rebuilt from scratch, placing in them housing for students and all the necessary medical facilities.
The plan and scope of the school resembles a ribbon loosely tied in a bow or two interlocked hands, which, according to the author, should symbolize care, attention and support. The facades are a lace mosaic assembled with triangular louvred elements. The project includes all the necessary functions, including a media library, a concert hall and creative workshops. For younger students, access to the courtyard directly from the classrooms is organized. The workshops and sports core volumes have an exploited roof overlooking the forest.
Alena Gruzinova. "School for disabled children"
School and rehabilitation center in the Odintsovo district of the Moscow region
The school was designed on the site of the former Polushkino boarding house, located near the existing city hospital. The perforated facades of the complex create a cheerful architectural image and protect the interior from direct sunlight, filling the classrooms with soft, diffused light. The series of classrooms is interrupted by spacious atrium spaces covered with trusses and a stained glass window made of athermal glass, which also provides maximum illumination.
Pupils of the school are children with musculoskeletal disorders, therefore, the project has created a cyclical scheme of movement throughout the school territory with a well-thought-out network of ramps and passages, allowing children to move freely from one part of the building to another. The loads on certain age groups of children were calculated: they determined the functional zoning and layout of the school. So, the smallest students study exclusively on the first floor, older children occupy the second level. Depending on the age of the children, the height and length of the ramps differ, which in this project have become not only a way of movement, but also a symbol of a gradual upward movement, development - educational and physical.
Anna Petrova. "Educational colony"
Reconstruction of the Atlat colony for juvenile offenders in the Chelyabinsk region
The Atlatskaya colony for juvenile offenders in the Chelyabinsk region, now closed for reconstruction, was chosen as the design site. The plot of 12 hectares is divided into two parts: male and female. The center includes a residential complex, school buildings and vocational education institutions, an information center, as well as an administrative and medical block. The one-story school has a direct connection with the vocational education building; in its very center there is a glazed courtyard.
Forming a strict image of the colony, the author of the project uses the method of removing individual volumes from the main body of the building. In their place, there appear either courtyards carved inside a square stylobate, or terraces of a residential block, or fragments of an exploited roof, turned into walking areas for adolescents held in a strict regime and in a disciplinary isolation ward.
Galleries are located along the perimeter of the site and along all the buildings, which, according to the author's plan, on the one hand, personify the path that leads children to correction, on the other hand, they contribute to better organization, especially in a strict regime.
