How Heatherwick Provides ‘Extroverted’ Design in Learning Hub Impact Learning and Change the World
The Learning Hub at Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore), designed by Heatherwick Studio is a new educational landmark for Singapore. The most important function of this new university building was to be a space for informal conversations where draws students and members of the community into the school just as it encourages students to interface outward.
The 57 teaching rooms are arranged into 12 separate towers, taper inwards at their base around a generous public central atrium to provide fifty-six tutorial rooms without corners or obvious fronts or backs. Through extensive collaborative spaces, the design blurs boundaries between teachers, students, school and community. The rooms in turn open onto the shared circulation space around the atrium, interspersed with open spaces and informal garden terraces, allowing students come together to make lots of nooks and crannies between them in the connected circulation, where ambiguous and informal conversations can take place.
In the information age the most important commodity on a campus is to sell the school to the public, entice the community inward, encourage students to interact outward, allow the school to become a symbol of learning and community-spirit, within the big scalefocus back on the human scale.
Learning Hub / Heatherwick Studio
Community-Oriented Architecture in Schools: How ‘Extroverted’ Design Can Impact Learning and Change the World
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