School, Children, and Climate

rethinking in/outdoor climate through field work research and situated design

Master thesis (2024)

Authors

L. Zhou Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

R.M. van der Schans Teachers of Practice / A - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
A.B.J. van Deudekom Teachers of Practice / AE+T - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
E.P.N. Schreurs Situated Architecture - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment, Architecture and the Built Environment
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Published Date

27-06-2024

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

In light of the endless capitalistic growth and energy & climate crisis, the project rejects the prevailing anthropocentric defitnition of a "comfortable" interior. The thesis begins with on-site fieldwork and personal interviews within elementary education. The research of "micro-climates" or micro-atmospheres in an elementary school is projected on the design location, benefiting from the micro-climates of the location. The result is a school building design in Friche Josaphat in Brussels. The design of the school focus on the careful placement between the city and the ecological site (Friche Josaphat), and experiments with a new interior climate for the education. The building envelope is imagined as a gradient of spaces instead of on clear separation of in-/outside. The layout and envelope design of the classrooms create thermal and atmospheric varieties as a productvie way to engage with micro-climate while reducing energy consumption.