Nature school design

Pre-K, kindergarten and first-grade aged children show up to Woodsong Forest School ready to learn. Rather than sneakers, they wear hiking boots. Instead of pencils, they carry magnifying glasses.

For a $5,000 per school budget, here are the top outdoor classroom features districts should prioritize.

Image 2 of 40 from gallery of My Montessori Garden Preschool / HGAA. Photograph by Duc Nguyen

Image 6 of 20 from gallery of HN Nursery / HIBINOSEKKEI + Youji no Shiro. Photograph by Toshinari Soga (studio BAUHAUS)

Image 10 of 33 from gallery of Korea National Arboretum Children's Forest School / GEEUMPLUS. Photograph by Hoonkoo Lee

Modern School Library Design by Leaf Architecture: This library fosters a love of reading with biophilic design & "trees that teach." Explore innovative learning environments. Contact Leaf today.

The Environmental Nature Center Preschool will be the second LEED Platinum Net Zero building on ENC’s 4.7-acre campus in Newport Beach. The new 8,000-square-foo

EuroSchool Bannerghatta in Bengaluru designed by Saurabh Gupta and Akanksha Gupta, partners at Vijay Gupta Architects, is a design lesson in holistic learning against a biophilic background.

What do you do with a low-income school, a few donated garden boxes, and no funding for plants or supplies? To this question, teachers Debbie Rutledge-Lockyear and Janet White’s response was confident. You make it work. When they received the garden boxes, the teachers began dreaming of creating a community garden where they could give their […]

“Korea National Arboretum Children's Forest School” is used as an educational and exhibition space to inform children about the importance of forests and the environment in a fun and easy way through the building and the exhibition of outdoor spaces. The architectural concept is based on the biophilic design in which nature, ecosystem and architecture coexist. The first starting point of this project is the harmony between the building and the existing trees. We preserve the old fir and…

Through the circular shape of the early learning centre in Auckland, New Zealand, Smith Architects explores the multitude of sustainable prospects in educational architecture.

“Korea National Arboretum Children's Forest School” is used as an educational and exhibition space to inform children about the importance of forests and the environment in a fun and easy way through the building and the exhibition of outdoor spaces. The architectural concept is based on the biophilic design in which nature, ecosystem and architecture coexist. The first starting point of this project is the harmony between the building and the existing trees. We preserve the old fir and…

At Ahava, our environment is key to your child's education and based on the Reggio Emilia approach to early childhood development. Indoor Learning Environm

Completed in 2021 in Paarl, South Africa. Images by Wieland Gleich – ARCHIGRAPHY. Green School South Africa, is an eight-hectare sustainable schooling campus located in the low-lying Paarl Valley in the Western Cape, spatially...

Image 2 of 16 from gallery of Oregon Zoo Education Center / Opsis Architecture. © Christian Columbres

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Microlibrary Warak Kayu by Shau features net floor and swing.

A story starts long back with the visionary teacher; he developed a unique teaching method for the underprivileged students of a rural school at Sawarpada village. It is a primary school for 40 students with two teachers who held classes in one hexagonal room for past 10 years. As lack of resources, they discovered a way to use walls, floors & even the existing trees.

While our leaves won't rustle and sway gently in the breeze, they will bring these calming experiences right into your learning spaces, collaboration zones, or public meeting spaces. Made from quality European birch plywood combined with a sound-absorbing acoustic felt, this centerpiece will certainly assist in reducing the noisy clatter of any open and flexible learning environment.