Andy Chen & Nancy Ai
Design
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Berlin’s New Castle
Tempelhof Feld is a “park instead of an airport.” Tempelhof Schloss is a castle instead of a school. This is a school without four-walled classrooms, year-to-year grades, standardized subjects, and static learning. Tempelhof Castle attempts to combine the site’s preexisting programs with a playground to generate a new primary school education infrastructure and architecture. The school attempts to gamify education by centering around the interdisciplinary and cyclical nature of project-based learning rather than the current antiquated, linear progression from grade to grade and subject 1 to subject 2 which allows for a more dynamic and fluid learning system. Similar to games, students are assigned quests, or projects, and an instructor to guide their problem solving both individually and cooperatively to produce a final piece of work in the form of a presentation. The student then earns experience points for making progress in subjects that they discover interest them through this process. Here the key is in providing resources for discovery rather than dictating what should be discovered. Similar to a castle, the school houses a library, computer lab, wood and metal shop, science lab, and administrative spaces that all support the open floor plate both structurally and intellectually. Students move through the open and free plan of the ground floor collecting information online and through books, creating and testing experiments, working with peers, attending workshops lead by instructors, and then finally presenting their work on the floor of the keep. Tempelhof Schloss envisions a new model of education through architecture.
Site
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Tempelhof Feld Berlin, Germany
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1. Knights Templar Land
2. Tempelhof Airport
3. Tempelhof Airport
4. Tempelhof Feld
History of Site & Site Photos
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Dessau Bauhaus Ishigami Columns Guggenheim Helsinki Herbert Ryman Illustrations SANAA Plans Mies Berlin Gallery Medieval Castles
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Initial Sketches
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Ground Floor Plan
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Section through Keep
Castle
Control Tower
Playground
Knights Templar Land
Tempelhof Airport
Tempelhof Feld
Distinct Spatial Organization
360o Panoramic Views
Fun Formal Language
Semi-permeable Outer Wall
Elevated Platform
Designed for Play
Dyanmic Roof Line
Most Important Part of Program
Rounded Corners
Inner Courtyards
Large Flat Floor Plate
Open Field
Castle as Obstacle in Gaming
Directional Lines on Ground
Chaotic Spatial Organization
Castle as Reward in Gaming
Airport Tower - Castle Tower
Bold Solid Colors
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Jessica Jones Street address Postcal Code + City/Town Germany
Student Profiles
Emergency Contact 1 - Home Pho Emergency Contact 2 - Cell Phone Contact Information - Email
Art Mastery: Tempelhof Schloss
Amy Smith Street address Postcal Code + City/Town Germany
Emergency Contact 1 - Home Phone Emergency Contact 2 - Cell Phone Contact Information - Email
Enrolled: Sep. 2013 Birthday: Jan. 2006
Mathematics Mastery: Subtraction
Multiplication
Division
Fractions
100%
100%
100%
0%
77%
Decimals
Measurement
Probability
Statistics
0%
39%
71%
100%
Basic Geometry
Charts
Graphs
Transformations
97%
0%
0%
41%
Fields of Study Literature Chemistry Mathematics English French Geography
Line
Shape
Form
100%
100%
100%
100%
Color
Value
Size
Space
96%
34%
100%
100%
Harmony
Balance
Still Life Drawing
100%
100%
100%
Fields of Study German Art
Addition
Point
Specialist Student Patterns
1 to 2 Subjects of Interest
77% Algebra
0%
Explorer Student 4+ Subjects of Interest
Tempelhof Schloss
Michael Stevens Street address Postcal Code + City/Town Germany
Emergency Contact 1 - Home Phone Emergency Contact 2 - Cell Phone Contact Information - Email
Enrolled: Feb. 2015 Birthday: Nov. 2008
Natural Science Mastery: Material Properties
Water Properties
Outdoor Obsvtn.
Plant Properties
Animal Properties
100%
100%
36%
100%
12%
Plan Structure
Animal Structure
Local Landforms
Weather
States of Matter
0%
100%
100%
71%
0%
Mammals
Reptiles
Insects
Aquatic Animals
Birds
100%
64%
0%
22%
0%
Fields of Study Scholar Student 2 to 3 Subjects of Interest
Music Natural Science German
Perspect
0%
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Tempelhof Schloss
Enrolled: Jun. 2015 Birthday: Apr. 2009
Program Diagram Texture
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92%
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Repitition
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100%
ctive
Portrait Painting
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95%
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Ground Floor
Sunken Courtyard 20
Keep Plate
Roof Playground 21