Education estates face varied challenges. In many parts of the world, access to primary education is still hampered by poor facilities. Elsewhere, shifts in funding models, advances in technology and new teaching approaches are transforming expectations of learning environments. Clients need to work with a partner whose understanding spans every aspect of educational property.
Arup works closely with educators, funders, architects and developers to produce buildings and technical solutions that meet their specific needs in primary, secondary and higher education.
Our clients’ requirements range from energy strategies that conserve scarce resources to designing flexible spaces that can adapt to future needs. Arup’s wealth of international experience – commercial, creative and technical – allows us to respond to even the most specialised of challenges.
We can realise specific solutions for laboratories, medicine and science facilities, or contemporary approaches to campus libraries and galleries. We have crafted acoustically intimate spaces for a school for young performers in Singapore as well as an earthquake-resistant design for a girls school in Afghanistan.
Beyond the technical and creative, designing for education demands an appreciation of economic and social context. For example, our prototype for Malawi schools had to be robust, very cheap and easy to build to cope with limited budgets, materials and skills.
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